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# עֲמֹרָה

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H6017

**Gomorrah** — used 19 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

Gomorrah [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1506/6017/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

עֲמֹרָה: n.pr.loc. Gomorrah [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1506/6017/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** n.pr.loc. Gomorrah, Γομορρα (Γ = غ;; √ II. עמר according to LagBN54);—always c. סְדֹם q.v.; Gn 10:19 + 8 times Gn, in sim. Am 4:11; Is 1:9; 13:19; Dt 29:22; Je 49:18; 50:40; Zp 2:9, cf. Dt 32:32; fig. of iniquity Is 1:10; Je 23:14.

Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 11 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: Gomorrah (15); of Gomorrah (4).

## In the verses

[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.

[Genesis 14:11](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/GEN.14.11/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/GEN.14.11/#tree)

וַ֠יִּקְחוּ אֶת־כָּל־רְכֻ֨שׁ סְדֹ֧ם וַעֲמֹרָ֛ה וְאֶת־כָּל־אָכְלָ֖ם וַיֵּלֵֽכוּ׃

*Word for word:* and they.took (et) all the.possession\[s\] of.Sodom and Gomorrah and (et) all food their and they.went

*JPS 1917:* And they took all the goods of Sodom and Gomorrah, and all their victuals, and went their way.

## On Mova

- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1506/6017/): 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).