lot · Lot

What it means

lot (לוֹט) is a Hebrew word of the Bible that means “Lot”.

Nephew of Abram, son of Haran; he settled in Sodom and was saved from its destruction. Father of Moab and Ammon.

How to say it

Approximate pronunciation. Vowels sound as in Spanish (a as in father, e as in bed, i as in machine, o as in note, u as in rule); the syllable in bold is stressed. The voice is your device's.

Related words

Words of the same family, by Strong’s numbering.

Where it appears

• Genesis×30
• Deuteronomy×2
• Psalms×1

• Genesis 11:27

  Now these are the generations of Terah. Terah fathered Abram, Nahor, and Haran; and Haran fathered Lot.

• Genesis 11:31

  Terah took Abram his son, Lot son of Haran, his grandson, and Sarai his daughter-in-law, the wife of Abram his son, and they went out with them from Ur of the Chaldeans to go to the land of Canaan; and they came as far as Haran and settled there.

• Genesis 12:4

  So Abram went, just as YHWH had told him, and Lot went with him. Abram was seventy-five years old when he went out from Haran.

• Genesis 12:5

  Abram took Sarai his wife, Lot the son of his brother, all their possessions that they had gathered, and the persons that they had acquired in Haran, and they set out to go to the land of Canaan. And they came to the land of Canaan.

• Genesis 13:1

  Abram went up from Egypt to the Negev, he and his wife and all that he had, and Lot with him.

• Genesis 13:5

  Lot also, who went with Abram, had sheep, cattle, and tents.

• Genesis 13:7

  So there was a quarrel between the herdsmen of Abram’s livestock and the herdsmen of Lot’s livestock. The Canaanites and the Perizzites were living then in the land.

• Genesis 13:8

  Abram said to Lot, “Please let there be no strife between me and you, and between my herdsmen and your herdsmen, for we are men, brothers.

• Genesis 13:10

  Lot lifted his eyes and saw the whole plain of the Jordan, that all of it was well-watered (before YHWH destroyed Sodom and Gomorrah) like the garden of YHWH, like the land of Egypt, as you go toward Zoar.

• Genesis 13:11

  So Lot chose for himself the whole plain of the Jordan, and Lot journeyed eastward; and they separated, each from his brother.

• Genesis 13:12

  Abram lived in the land of Canaan, and Lot lived in the cities of the plain and moved his tent as far as Sodom.

• Genesis 13:14

  YHWH said to Abram, after Lot had separated from him, “Lift up now your eyes and look from the place where you are, northward and southward and eastward and westward;

• Genesis 14:12

  They also took Lot, the son of Abram’s brother, and his possessions, and went away; for he was living in Sodom.

• Genesis 14:16

  He brought back all the possessions, and also Lot his brother and his possessions he brought back, and also the women and the people.

• Genesis 19:1

  The two messengers came to Sodom in the evening, and Lot was sitting in the gate of Sodom. When Lot saw them, he got up to meet them and bowed down with his face to the ground.

• Genesis 19:5

  They called to Lot and said to him, “Where are the men who came to you tonight? Bring them out to us, so that we may know them.”

• Genesis 19:6

  Lot went out to them at the entrance, and shut the door behind him,

• Genesis 19:9

  But they said, “Step aside!” And they said, “This one came to reside as an alien, and he keeps acting as judge! Now we will do worse to you than to them.” And they pressed hard against the man, against Lot, and came near to break the door.

• Genesis 19:10

  But the men reached out their hands and brought Lot into the house with them, and shut the door.

• Genesis 19:12

  Then the men said to Lot, “Whom else do you have here? A son-in-law, your sons, your daughters, and anyone you have in the city, bring them out of the place,

• Genesis 19:14

  So Lot went out and spoke to his sons-in-law, who were to marry his daughters, and said, “Get up, get out of this place, for YHWH is about to destroy the city.” But he seemed to be joking in the eyes of his sons-in-law.

• Genesis 19:15

  As the dawn came up, the messengers urged Lot, saying, “Get up, take your wife and your two daughters who are here, lest you be swept away in the iniquity of the city.”

• Genesis 19:18

  But Lot said to them, “No, please, Adonai!

• Genesis 19:23

  The sun had risen over the earth when Lot came to Zoar.

• Genesis 19:29

  So it was that when Elohim destroyed the cities of the plain, Elohim remembered Abraham and sent Lot out of the midst of the overturning, when he overturned the cities in which Lot had lived.

• Genesis 19:30

  Lot went up from Zoar and lived on the mountain, and his two daughters with him, for he was afraid to live in Zoar; and he lived in a cave, he and his two daughters.

• Genesis 19:36

  Thus both daughters of Lot became pregnant by their father.

• Deuteronomy 2:9

  YHWH said to me, “Do not harass Moab or provoke them to war, for I will not give you any of its land as a possession, because I have given Ar to the sons of Lot as a possession.”

• Deuteronomy 2:19

  and you will come near opposite the sons of Ammon. Do not harass them or provoke them, for I will not give you any of the land of the sons of Ammon as a possession, because I have given it to the sons of Lot as a possession.”

• Psalms 83:8

  Also Assyria has joined them; they have been an arm to the sons of Lot. Selah.

And 3 more times.