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Lexicon :: Strong's H6017 - ʿămōrâ

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עֲמֹרָה
Transliteration
ʿămōrâ
Pronunciation
am-o-raw'
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Part of Speech
proper locative noun
Root Word (Etymology)
Strong’s Definitions

עֲמֹרָה ʻĂmôrâh, am-o-raw'; from H6014; a (ruined) heap; Amorah, a place in Palestine:—Gomorrah.


KJV Translation Count — Total: 19x

The KJV translates Strong's H6017 in the following manner: Gomorrah (19x).

KJV Translation Count — Total: 19x
The KJV translates Strong's H6017 in the following manner: Gomorrah (19x).
  1. Gomorrah = "submersion"

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

      1. of iniquity (fig.)

Strong’s Definitions [?](Strong’s Definitions Legend)
עֲמֹרָה ʻĂmôrâh, am-o-raw'; from H6014; a (ruined) heap; Amorah, a place in Palestine:—Gomorrah.
STRONGS H6017: Abbreviations
עֲמֹרָה 19 proper name, of a location Gomorrah, Γομορρα (Γ = bdb077106; √ II. עמר according to LagBN 54); — always with H5467 סְדֹם which see; Genesis 10:19 + 8 times Genesis; in simile Amos 4:11; Isaiah 1:9; Isaiah 13:19; Deuteronomy 29:22; Jeremiah 49:18; Jeremiah 50:40; Zephaniah 2:9, compare Deuteronomy 32:32; figurative of iniquity Isaiah 1:10; Jeremiah 23:14.
Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew and English Lexicon, Unabridged, Electronic Database.
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BLB Scripture Index of Brown-Driver-Briggs

Genesis

10:19

Deuteronomy

29:22; 32:32

Isaiah

1:9; 1:10; 13:19

Jeremiah

23:14; 49:18; 50:40

Amos

4:11

Zephaniah

2:9

H6017

Word / Phrase / Strong's Search

Strong's Number H6017 matches the Hebrew עֲמֹרָה (ʿămōrâ),
which occurs 19 times in 19 verses in the WLC Hebrew.

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 10:19 - The territory of the Canaanite extended from Sidon as one goes to Gerar, as far as Gaza; and as one goes to [fn]Sodom and Gomorrah and Admah and Zeboiim, as far as Lasha.
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 13:10 - So Lot looked and saw that the valley of the Jordan was well watered everywhere—this was before the LORD destroyed Sodom and Gomorrah; [it was all] like the garden of the LORD, like the land of Egypt, as you go to Zoar [at the south end of the Dead Sea].
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 14:2 - they [invaded the Jordan Valley near the Dead Sea, and] made war with Bera king of Sodom, Birsha king of Gomorrah, Shinab king of Admah, Shemeber king of Zeboiim, and the king of Bela [fn](that is, Zoar).
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 14:8 - Then the kings of Sodom, Gomorrah, Admah, Zeboiim, and Bela (that is, Zoar) came out; and they joined together for battle with the invading kings in the Valley of Siddim,
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 14:10 - Now the Valley of Siddim was full of tar (bitumen) pits; and as the kings of Sodom and Gomorrah fled, they fell into them. But the remainder [of the kings] who survived fled to the hill country.
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 14:11 - Then the victors took all the possessions of Sodom and Gomorrah and all their food supply and provisions and left.
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 18:20 - And the LORD said, “The outcry [of the sin] of Sodom and Gomorrah is indeed great, and their sin is exceedingly grave.
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 19:24 - Then the LORD rained down brimstone (flaming sulfur) and fire on Sodom and on Gomorrah from the LORD out of heaven,
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 19:28 - and he looked down toward Sodom and Gomorrah, and toward all the land of the valley [of the Dead Sea]; and he saw, and behold, the smoke of [fn]the land went up like the smoke of a kiln (pottery furnace).
Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 29:23 - ‘The whole land is brimstone and salt, a burning waste, unsown and unproductive, and no grass grows in it; it is like the overthrow of Sodom and Gomorrah, Admah and Zeboiim, which the LORD overthrew in His anger and wrath.’
Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 32:32 -

“For their vine is from the vine of Sodom,

And from the fields of Gomorrah;

Their grapes are grapes of poison,

Their clusters, bitter.

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 1:9 -

If the LORD of hosts

Had not left us a few survivors,

We would be like Sodom,

We would be like Gomorrah.

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 1:10 -

Hear the word of the LORD [rulers of Jerusalem],

You rulers of [another] Sodom,

Listen to the law and instruction of our God,

You people of [another] Gomorrah.

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 13:19 -

And Babylon, the glory of kingdoms, the beauty of the [fn]Chaldeans’ pride,

Will be like Sodom and Gomorrah when God overthrew them.

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 23:14 -

“Also I have seen a horrible thing in the prophets of Jerusalem:

They commit adultery and walk in lies;

They encourage and strengthen the hands of evildoers,

So that no one has turned back from his wickedness.

All of them have become like Sodom to Me,

And her inhabitants like Gomorrah.

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 49:18 - “As [it was] in the overthrow of Sodom and Gomorrah with their neighboring cities,” says the LORD, “no man will live there, nor will a son of man dwell in it.
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 50:40 -

“As when God overthrew Sodom

And Gomorrah and their neighboring cities,” says the LORD,

“So no man will live there;

Nor shall any son of man live there.”

Unchecked Copy BoxAmo 4:11 -

“I overthrew and destroyed [some among] you, as [I, your] God overthrew Sodom and Gomorrah,

And you were [rescued] like a log pulled out of the flame;

Yet you have not returned to Me [in repentance],” says the LORD.

Unchecked Copy BoxZep 2:9 -

“Therefore, as I live,” declares the LORD of hosts,

The God of Israel,

[fn]Moab will in fact become like Sodom

And the [fn]sons of Ammon like Gomorrah,

A land possessed by nettles and salt pits,

And a perpetual desolation.

The remnant of My people will plunder them

And what is left of My nation will inherit them [as their own].”

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