5467. Sedom
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Sedom: a Canaanite city near the Dead Sea
Original Word: סְדֹם
Part of Speech: Proper Name Location
Transliteration: Sedom
Phonetic Spelling: (sed-ome')
Short Definition: Sodom

NAS Exhaustive Concordance
Word Origin
of uncertain derivation
Definition
a Canaanite city near the Dead Sea
NASB Translation
Sodom (39).

Brown-Driver-Briggs
סְדֹּם89 proper name, of a location Sodom, important Canaanitish city named (usually) with Gomorrha ( עֲמֹרָה, q. v.); — ᵐ5 Ζόδομα (inflected Ζοδόμώ, Ζοδομοις ): — ׳ס (on formation compare LagBN 54), Genesis 13:10,12,13 7t. Genesis 18, 19, + מְדֹ֫מָה (ה locative) Genesis 10:19; Genesis 18:22; Genesis 19:1 (all J), + 8 t. Genesis 14; from 8th cent. onwards, used as illustrating ׳יs judgments, Amos 4:11; Isaiah 1:9; Isaiah 13:19; Deuteronomy 29:22; Jeremiah 49:18; Jeremiah 50:40; Zephaniah 2:9; Lamentations 4:6; as proverbial for open sin Isaiah 3:9; Jeremiah 23:14 so metaphor ׳קְצִינֵי ס Isaiah 1:10 (i.e. rulers as corrupt as in Sodom), ׳גֶּמֶּן ס Deuteronomy 32:32 (i.e. wickedness like Sodom's); Judah compare with ׳ס to her disadvantage Ezekiel 16:46,48,49,53,55,56. Site probably at south end of Dead Sea, where are now Jebel Usdum (southwest), and Zoar (southeast) compare DiGenesis 19:20ff. RobBR ii. 187 ff. GASmGeogr. 505 ff. BlankenhornZPV xix (1896), 53 ff BdPal. 3, 146 BuhlGeogr. 117, 271, 274. See also שִׂדִּים.



Strong's
Sodom

From an unused root meaning to scorch; burnt (i.e. Volcanic or bituminous) district; Sedom, a place near the Dead Sea -- Sodom.

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