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The etymology of the names Sodom and Gomorrah is uncertain, and scholars disagree about them. [5] They are known in Hebrew as סְדֹם (Səḏōm) and עֲמֹרָה ('Ămōrā). In the Septuagint, these became Σόδομα (Sódoma) and Γόμορρᾰ (Gómorrha); the Hebrew ghayn was absorbed by ayin sometime after the Septuagint was ...
Lut (Arabic: لُوط – Lūṭ) in the Quran is considered to be the same as Lot in the Hebrew Bible. He is considered to be a messenger of God and a prophet of God. [25] In Islamic tradition, Lut lived in Ur and was a nephew of Ibrahim . He migrated with Ibrahim to Canaan and was commissioned as a prophet to the cities of Sodom and Gomorrah ...
Another view in the Jewish exegesis of Genesis 19:26, is that when Lot's wife looked back, she turned to a pillar of salt upon the "sight of God" descending to rain destruction upon Sodom and Gomorrah. [1]: 467 One reason given in the tradition is that she looked behind her to see if her daughters, married to men of Sodom, were coming or not.
Gomorrah or Gomorra may refer to: Sodom and Gomorrah, Biblical cities; Gomorrah, a 2006 non-fiction investigative book by Roberto Saviano Gomorrah, based on the book; Gomorrah, based on the book; Operation Gomorrah, the Bombing of Hamburg in World War II in July 1943; Liber Gomorrhianus or Book of Gomorrah, a book written by Peter Damian
The Destruction of Sodom and Gomorrah (1852 painting by John Martin) Vayeira, Vayera, or Va-yera (וַיֵּרָא —Hebrew for "and He appeared," the first word in the parashah) is the fourth weekly Torah portion (פָּרָשָׁה , parashah) in the annual Jewish cycle of Torah reading. It constitutes Genesis 18:1–22:24.
Biblical Hebrew, as of the 3rd century BCE, apparently still distinguished the phonemes ġ and ḫ /χ/, based on transcriptions in the Septuagint, such as that of the name "Gomorrah" as Gomorras (Γομορραν) for the Hebrew ‘Ămōrā (עֲמֹרָה).
The Old Testament uses the phrase "fire and brimstone" in the context of divine punishment and purification. In Genesis 19, God destroys Sodom and Gomorrah with a rain of fire and brimstone (Hebrew: גׇּפְרִ֣ית וָאֵ֑שׁ), and in Deuteronomy 29, the Israelites are warned that the same punishment would fall upon them should they abandon their covenant with God.
According to the Bible, Admah (Heb. אַדְמָה) was one of the five cities of the Vale of Siddim. [1] It was destroyed along with Sodom and Gomorrah. [2] It is supposed by William F. Albright to be the same as the "Adam" of Joshua 3:16. [3]