Sodom
se.dom is the place-name Sodom, named in narratives of its people, rulers, and overthrow and in later comparisons.
The term consistently names Sodom as a place: it occurs in accounts locating people and rulers there, in the city’s destruction, and in later comparisons that invoke Sodom’s wrongdoing or overthrow.
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The city and place called Sodom · dominant
The supplied morphology identifies each form as a proper noun. In Genesis 14:2 the APB renders a king of Sodom among the kings who make battle; in Genesis 19:1 it renders the messengers’ arrival at Sodom and Lot at its gate. The same place-name is used in Genesis 19:24 for the city upon which fire falls, and later comparisons refer to Sodom’s sin or overthrow in Isaiah 3:9 and Jeremiah 50:40.
In the Anselm Project Bible: Across the supplied verses, the APB normally presents the proper name as “Sodom,” including location, royal title, destruction, and comparison clauses. These renderings confirm the verse-level identification rather than supplying a separate lexical nuance.