BDB5505

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 Lag^{BN 54}), Gen 13:10; Gen 13:12; Gen 13:13 + 7 t. Gen 18, 19, + מְדֹ֫מָה (ה locative) Gen 10:19; Gen 18:22; Gen 19:1 (all J ), + 8 t. Gen 14 from 8th cent. onwards, used as illustrating ׳ י's judgments, Amos 4:11; Isa 1:9; Isa 13:19; Deut 29:22; Jer 49:18; Jer 50:40; Zeph 2:9; Lam 4:6 as proverbial for open sin Isa 3:9; Jer 23:14 so metaphor ׳ קְצִינֵי ס Isa 1:10 (i.e. rulers as corrupt as in Sodom), ׳ גֶּפֶּן ס Deut 32:32 (i.e. wickedness like Sodom's); Judah compare with ׳ ס to her disadvantage Ezek 16:46; Ezek 16:48; Ezek 16:49; Ezek 16:53; Ezek 16:55; Ezek 16:56. Site probably at south end of Dead Sea, where are now Jebel Usdum (southwest), and Zoar (southeast) compare Di ^{Gen 19:20 ff.} Rob^{BR ii. 187 ff.} GASm^{Geogr. 505 ff.} Blankenhorn^{ZPV xix (1896), 53 ff} Bd^{Pal. 3, 146} Buhl^{Geogr. 117, 271, 274}. See also שִׂדִּים.