Word

עֲמֹרָה

ʻĂmôrâh · H6017 · Hebrew · proper noun · 19 occurrences

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Place

Gomorrahfirst named in Genesis 10:1923 verses

Meanings

Gomorrah

A town near the Dead Sea destroyed together with Sodom

Examples
Genesis 10:19 The territory of the Canaanite extended from Sidon going toward Gerar, as far as Gaza; and going toward Sodom and Gomorrah, Admah, and Zeboiim, as far as Lasha.

How it’s used In 4 roles

Every occurrence, grouped by the words it is grammatically related to.

the word studied the word it goes with

Words describing itAdjectives, demonstratives, participles

1 occurrences in 1 groups

הָפַךְto turn, to change, to overturn 1

What is done to itIt is the object

4 occurrences in 2 groups

מַהְפֵּכָהoverthrowing 3
שָׁחַתto destroy, to corrupt 1

After prepositionsPrepositional phrases

4 occurrences in 3 groups

כlike/as 2
לto/for 2
עַלon, upon, over, against 1

In phrases “… of it”It is the genitive

10 occurrences in 7 groups

מֶלֶךְking 3
מַהְפֵּכָהoverthrowing 2
זַעַקcry 1
עַםpeople 1
פָּנִיםface, presence, before 1
רְכוּשׁproperty 1

When two words share a role, as in “Paul and Barnabas said”, the verse appears under each, so a section’s counts can add up to more than the number of occurrences.

MACULA Greek Linguistic Datasets, available at https://github.com/Clear-Bible/macula-greek/, licensed CC BY 4.0; MACULA Hebrew Linguistic Datasets © 2022-2024 by Biblica, Inc., CC BY 4.0. Westminster Leningrad Codex (tanach.us). OpenScriptures Hebrew Bible morphology (hb.openscriptures.org), CC BY 4.0.

Semantic domains 1 entry

Names of Locations003001010: עֲמֹרָה (Gomorrah) is the name of one of the cities destroyed alongside Sodom (Genesis 19:24-28).

Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon H6017. Amorah עֲמֹרָה19 proper name, of a location Gomorrah, Γομορρα (Γ = ; √ II. עמר…

H6017. Amorah
עֲמֹרָה19 proper name, of a location Gomorrah, Γομορρα (Γ = ; √ II. עמר according to LagBN 54); — always with סְדֹם q. v.; Gen 10:19 Gen 10:8t. Genesis; in simile Amo 4:11; Isa 1:9; Isa 13:19; Deu 29:22; Jer 49:18; Jer 50:40; Zep 2:9, compare Deu 32:32; figurative of iniquity Isa 1:10; Jer 23:14.
III. עמר (√ of following; compare Arabic , live, live long; also worship; proper name etc.; RSK 266 proposes meaning worshipper, עָמְרִי worshipper of ׳י (compare WeSkizzen iii. 165) against him NöZMG xl (1886), 185, who compare meaning live, , life).

Brown, Driver and Briggs, A Hebrew and English Lexicon of the Old Testament (1906), public domain

Topical studies with this word 1 entry

Names of Locations19 occurrences

Meanings adapted from the UBS Dictionary of the Greek New Testament, © United Bible Societies, CC BY-SA 4.0 and the UBS Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew (from the Semantic Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew), © United Bible Societies, CC BY-SA 4.0; MACULA Greek Linguistic Datasets, available at https://github.com/Clear-Bible/macula-greek/, licensed CC BY 4.0; MACULA Hebrew Linguistic Datasets © 2022-2024 by Biblica, Inc., CC BY 4.0. Westminster Leningrad Codex (tanach.us). OpenScriptures Hebrew Bible morphology (hb.openscriptures.org), CC BY 4.0.

Sources

eRhema lexical overview, based on the UBS Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew and the UBS Dictionary of the Greek New Testament (© United Bible Societies, CC BY-SA 4.0) and Macula Hebrew and Greek (Clear Bible, CC BY 4.0); released under CC BY-SA 4.0