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Gomorrah
עֲמֹרָהΓόμορρα
- verses
- 24
- first named
- Genesis 10:19
- last named
- Jude 1:7
- feature
- settlement
- coordinates
- 31.13°N · 35.53°E
Numeira (OpenBible)
Scholarship offers 5 identifications for this place. The leading one is shown; the others are recorded in the gazetteer.
Description
Gomorrah in the text
Gomorrah was one of the five cities in the plain of Jordan, along with Sodom, Admah, Zeboiim, and Zoar (Genesis 10:19, 14:2). It was located in a fertile area, well-watered like the garden of the Lord (Genesis 13:10).
However, the wickedness of Gomorrah and the neighboring cities was exceedingly grave (Genesis 18:20). When God revealed His plan to destroy the cities to Abraham, the patriarch pleaded for their survival if even ten righteous people could be found (Genesis 18:23-32). Ultimately, only Lot and his two daughters were spared, while Gomorrah and the other cities were destroyed by sulfur and fire from heaven (Genesis 19:24-25).
The destruction of Gomorrah and Sodom became a symbol of God's judgment against sin and a warning to future generations (Deu.29.23, 32:32; Isaiah 1:9-10, 13:19; Jeremiah 23:14, 49:18, 50:40; Amo.4.11; Zephaniah 2:9). In the New Testament, Jesus used Sodom and Gomorrah as an example of the fate awaiting those who reject the gospel message (Matthew 10:15; Mrk.6.11; Luke 10:12).
The apostle Peter cited the destruction of these cities as proof of God's judgment against the ungodly and His deliverance of the righteous (2Pe.2.6-9). Jude also referred to Sodom and Gomorrah as an example of the punishment awaiting those who indulge in sexual immorality and perversion (Jude 1:7).
The exact location of Gomorrah remains unknown, as the cities were completely destroyed. However, it is believed to have been situated in the area south of the Dead Sea, possibly submerged beneath its waters.
Relations
Direct connections
Every entity the graph places in a stated relation with this one, grouped by the kind of link. Each relation is authored once and its inverse derived, so both ends always agree. Rows marked “registry” come from the identity spine rather than from a verse, and a row marked “which bearer is the source’s decision” is one where the name could have meant more than one person. The last group is not a relation at all — it counts the events two entities stand in together.
The pattern
Where Gomorrah is named
Every book of the corpus in the order it is read, each as wide as the chapters it holds. A bar is the verses of that book which write the name, and the flat stretches are as much of the answer as the bars.
24 verses across 11 of 66 books; 55 write the name nowhere. Named in Genesis (9), Deuteronomy (2), Isaiah (3), Jeremiah (3), Amos (1), Zephaniah (1), Matthew (1), Mark (1), Romans (1), 2 Peter (1) and Jude (1).
Read it
Where to read it
Every verse of the text carried here that names this entity — 24, across 11 books.
Onward
Where this page goes
Nothing in the graph stands one hop from this entity yet. These are the best-connected entities of the same type, so the page still ends somewhere. Descriptions by STEPBible TIPNR.
Where they appear
What happened here
Atlas's reading of each chapter this place appears in, in canonical order. One line per chapter, and each leads to the whole of it.
- Genesis 19Gomorrah was destroyed with Sodom, the plain, its inhabitants, and everything growing on the ground.
- Isaiah 1Gomorrah is first a warning of what the remnant escaped and then the name given to Judah’s people.
- Isaiah 13Gomorrah was invoked alongside Sodom as the likeness of Babylon’s overthrow.
- Jeremiah 23Gomorrah served as the comparison for the people of Jerusalem.
- Amos 4Gomorrah shares the comparison for those overthrown.
- Romans 9Gomorrah stands beside Sodom in Isaiah’s warning about what Israel would have become.
- 2 Peter 2Gomorrah was condemned alongside Sodom and reduced to ashes as an example of what is coming on the ungodly.
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