Σόδομα
Sodoma · Sodom
Greek word · Strong’s number G4670 · appears 9 times in the Bible
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Sodoma (Σόδομα) is a Greek word of the Bible that means “Sodom”.
The city destroyed for its wickedness (Genesis 19).
How to say it
So·do·ma
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.
The place
Sodom ?
Today: disputed; perhaps south or northeast of the Dead Sea
A city of the Jordan plain; its site is not known for certain, perhaps near the Dead Sea.
Its people were very wicked (Gen 13:13). God destroyed it with fire, and saved Lot (Gen 19:24-25).
Where it appears
- Matthew 10:15
Truly I tell you, it will be more bearable for the land of Sodom and Gomorrah on the day of judgment than for that town.
- Matthew 11:23
And you, Capernaum, you will not be exalted to heaven, will you? To Hades you will go down; for if the miracles that were done in you had been done in Sodom, it would have remained until this day.
- Matthew 11:24
But I tell you that it will be more bearable for the land of Sodom on the day of judgment than for you.”
- Luke 10:12
I tell you that it will be more tolerable on that day for Sodom than for that city.
- Luke 17:29
but on the day that Lot went out from Sodom, it rained fire and sulfur from heaven and destroyed them all.
- Romans 9:29
And as Isaiah said beforehand: If the Lord Tsevaot had not left us offspring, we would have become like Sodom, and would have been made like Gomorrah.
- 2 Peter 2:6
and condemned the cities of Sodom and Gomorrah to destruction, reducing them to ashes, having made them an example for the ungodly of what is coming;
- Jude 1:7
just as Sodom and Gomorrah and the cities around them, which in the same way as these indulged in sexual immorality and went after other flesh, are set forth as an example, undergoing the punishment of eternal fire.
- Revelation 11:8
And their corpse will lie in the street of the great city, which is called spiritually Sodom and Egypt, where also their Lord was crucified.