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# סְדֹם

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H5467

**Sodom** — used 39 times in the Hebrew Bible. Below: its meanings with their sources, MACULA's glosses, and 2 verses word for word and in JPS 1917.

## Meaning

### OpenScriptures lexical index

Sodom [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1505/5467/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

סְדֹם: n.pr.loc. Sodom [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1505/5467/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** n.pr.loc. Sodom, important Canaanitish city named (usually) with Gomorrha (עֲמֹרָה, q.v.);—𝔊 Σόδομα (inflected Σοδόμων, Σοδόμοις):—ס׳ (on format. cf. LagBN 54), Gn 13:10, 12, 13 + 7 times Gn 18, 19, + סְדֹ֫מָה (ה loc.) Gn 10:19; 18:22; 19:1 (all J), + 8 times Gn 14; from 8th cent. onwards, used as illustrating י׳’s judgments, Am 4:11 Is 1:9; 13:19 Dt 29:22 Je 49:18; 50:40 Zp 2:9 La 4:6; as proverbial for open sin Is 3:9 Je 23:14, so metaph. קְצִינֵי ס׳ Is 1:10 (i.e. rulers as corrupt as in Sodom), גֶּפֶן ס׳ Dt 32:32 (i.e. wickedness like Sodom’s); Judah cp. with ס׳ to her disadvantage Ez 16:46, 48, 49, 53, 55, 56. Site prob. at S. end of Dead Sea, where are now Jebel Usdum (SW.), and Zoar SE. cf. Di Gn 19:20 ff. RobBR ii. 187 ff. GASmGeogr. 505 ff. BlankenhornZPV xix (1896), 53 ff. BdPal. 3, 146 BuhlGeogr. 117, 271, 274. Vid. also שִׂדִּים.

Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 24 of its verses cited, 1 words shared with the glosses, lists its Strong's number (1 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 1 words shared with the BDB entry, 1 with the glosses (1 candidates)

## Glosses

MACULA's English glosses of the word in the text, with how often each is used: of Sodom (20); Sodom (15); towards (2).

## In the verses

[Genesis 13:13](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/GEN.13.13/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/GEN.13.13/#tree)

וְאַנְשֵׁ֣י סְדֹ֔ם רָעִ֖ים וְחַטָּאִ֑ים לַיהוָ֖ה מְאֹֽד׃

*Word for word:* and the.people of.Sodom \[were\].wicked and sinful to Yahweh exceedingly

*JPS 1917:* Now the men of Sodom were wicked and sinners against the LORD exceedingly.

[Isaiah 1:10](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/ISA.1.10/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/ISA.1.10/#tree)

שִׁמְע֥וּ דְבַר־יְהוָ֖ה קְצִינֵ֣י סְדֹ֑ם הַאֲזִ֛ינוּ תּוֹרַ֥ת אֱלֹהֵ֖ינוּ עַ֥ם עֲמֹרָֽה׃

*Word for word:* hear the.word of.Yahweh O.rulers of.Sodom give.ear.to the.instruction our.God our O.people of.Gomorrah

*JPS 1917:* Hear the word of the LORD, ye rulers of Sodom; give ear unto the law of our God, ye people of Gomorrah.

## On Mova

- [This word in the Tanakh dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/5467.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1505/5467/): every English meaning parsed by Mova, with its dependency tree and frames.

Sources. The words, their counts, glosses and the word-for-word renderings: MACULA Hebrew (the Westminster Leningrad Codex; Clear Bible, CC BY 4.0). Meanings: the OpenScriptures lexical index (CC BY 4.0), Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906 and Jastrow 1903 (public domain, via Sefaria); Targum Onkelos from Sefaria (public domain). Translation: JPS 1917 (public domain, from eBible.org).