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Strong's #6017: `Amorah (pronounced am-o-raw')

from 6014; a (ruined) heap; Amorah, a place in Palestine:--Gomorrah.




Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon:

‛ămôrâh

Gomorrah = "submersion"

1) the twin-city in evil with Sodom, both destroyed in judgment by God with fire from heaven

1a) of iniquity (figuratively)

Part of Speech: noun proper locative

Relation: from H6014



Usage:

This word is used 19 times:

Genesis 10:19: "unto Gaza; as thou goest, unto Sodom, and Gomorrah, and Admah, and Zeboim, even unto"
Genesis 13:10: "destroyed Sodom and Gomorrah, even as the garden of the LORD, like the land of Egypt,"
Genesis 14:2: "and with Birsha king of Gomorrah, Shinab king of Admah, and Shemeber"
Genesis 14:8: "the king of Sodom, and the king of Gomorrah, and the king of Admah, and the king of Zeboiim,"
Genesis 14:10: "was full of slime pits; and the kings of Sodom and Gomorrah fled, and fell"
Genesis 14:11: "all the goods of Sodom and Gomorrah, and all their victuals, and went their way."
Genesis 18:20: "Because the cry of Sodom and Gomorrah is great, and because their sin is very"
Genesis 19:24: "upon Sodom and upon Gomorrah brimstone and fire from"
Genesis 19:28: "And he looked toward Sodom and Gomorrah, and toward all"
Deuteronomy 29:23: "groweth therein, like the overthrow of Sodom, and Gomorrah, Admah, and Zeboim, which the LORD"
Deuteronomy 32:32: "is of the vine of Sodom, and of the fields of Gomorrah: their grapes are grapes"
Isaiah 1:9: "we should have been as Sodom, and we should have been like unto Gomorrah."
Isaiah 1:10: "unto the law of our God, ye people of Gomorrah."
Isaiah 13:19: "overthrew Sodom and Gomorrah."
Jeremiah 23:14: "from his wickedness: they are all of them unto me as Sodom, and the inhabitants thereof as Gomorrah."
Jeremiah 49:18: "As in the overthrow of Sodom and Gomorrah and the neighbor cities thereof, saith the LORD, no man"
Jeremiah 50:40: "overthrew Sodom and Gomorrah and the neighbor cities thereof, saith the LORD; so shall no"
Amos 4:11: "overthrew Sodom and Gomorrah, and ye were as a firebrand plucked out of the burning:"
Zephaniah 2:9: "as Sodom, and the children of Ammon as Gomorrah, even the breeding of nettles, and saltpits,"









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