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2761 Smith’s Bible Dictionary, p. Chedorlaomer.2 (William Smith)
Chedorlao’mer, or Chedorla’omer ( servant of Laomer ), a king of Elam, in the time of Abraham, who with three other chiefs made war upon the kings of Sodom, Gomorrah, Admah, Zeboim, and Zoar, and reduced them to servitude. Genesis 14:17 .
2762 Smith’s Bible Dictionary, p. Cities.2 (William Smith)
… of Sodom. Genesis 19:1-22. Even before the time of Abraham there were cities in Egypt, Genesis 12:14, Genesis 12:15; Numbers 13:22, and the Israelites, during their …
2763 Smith’s Bible Dictionary, p. En-gedi.2 (William Smith)
… of Sodom. Genesis 14:7; comp. 2 Chronicles 20:2. Saul was told that David was in the “wilderness of Engedi”; and he took “three thousand men, and went to seek David and …
2764 Smith’s Bible Dictionary, p. Gomorrah.2 (William Smith)
… under SODOM .
2765 Smith’s Bible Dictionary, p. Hobah.2 (William Smith)
Ho’bah ( hiding-place ), the place to which Abraham pursued the kings who had pillaged Sodom. Genesis 14:15. It was situated “to the north of Damascus.”
2766 Smith’s Bible Dictionary, p. Lot.2 (William Smith)
… as Sodom. Genesis 13:10-14. The next occurrence in the life of Lot is his capture by the four kings of the east and his rescue by Abram. ch. Genesis 14. The last scene …
2767 Smith’s Bible Dictionary, p. Melchizedek.2 (William Smith)
… of Sodom) of a settled Canaanitish tribe. The “order of Melchizedek,” in Psalm 110:4, is explained to mean “manner” = likeness in official dignity = a king and priest …
2768 Smith’s Bible Dictionary, p. Salt.2 (William Smith)
… of Sodom.” The salt-pits formed an important source of revenue to the rulers of the country, and Antiochus conferred a valuable boon on Jerusalem by presenting …
2769 Smith’s Bible Dictionary, p. Sea The Salt.3 (William Smith)
… of Sodom, in the Talmud; (7) The Asphaltic Lake, in Josephus; (8) The name “Dead Sea” appears to have been first used in Greek by Pausanias and Galen, and in Latin ( mare …
2770 Smith’s Bible Dictionary, p. Sea The Salt.4 (William Smith)
… era. [ SODOM; ZOAR ] The belief which prompted the idea of some modern writers that the Dead Sea was formed by the catastrophe which overthrew the “cities of the …
2771 Smith’s Bible Dictionary, p. Shemeber.2 (William Smith)
Sheme’ber ( lofty flight ), king of Zeboiam, and ally of the king of Sodom when he was attacked by Chedorlaomer. Genesis 14:2. (b.c. 1912.)
2772 Smith’s Bible Dictionary, p. Siddim.2 (William Smith)
… of Sodom, Gomorrah, Admah, Zeboim, and Bela seem to have awaited the approach of the invaders. It is therefore probable that it was in the neighborhood of the …
2774 Smith’s Bible Dictionary, p. Sodom.2 (William Smith)
… Zoar. Sodom was evidently the chief town in the settlement. The four are first named in the ethnological records of Genesis 10:19 as belonging to the Canaanites …
2775 Smith’s Bible Dictionary, p. Sodom.3 (William Smith)
… . That Sodom and the rest of the cities of the plain of Jordan stood on the north of the Dead Sea; 2. That neither the cities nor the district were submerged by the …
2776 Smith’s Bible Dictionary, p. Sodom.4 (William Smith)
… indeed Sodom and its sister cities are really under the water.—Ed.) The miserable fate of Sodom and Gomorrah is held up as a warning in numerous passages of the …
2777 Smith’s Bible Dictionary, p. Sodoma.2 (William Smith)
Sod’oma. Romans 9:29. In this place alone the Authorized Version has followed the Greek and Vulgate form of the well-known name Sodom.
2778 Smith’s Bible Dictionary, p. Sodomites.2 (William Smith)
… of Sodom; but it is employed in the Authorized Version of the Old Testament for those who practiced as a religious rite the abominable and unnatural vice …
2779 Smith’s Bible Dictionary, p. Vine of Sodom.1 (William Smith)
Vine of Sodom
2780 Smith’s Bible Dictionary, p. Vine of Sodom.2 (William Smith)
… of Sodom occurs only in Deuteronomy 32:32. It is generally supposed that this passage alludes to the celebrated apples of Sodom, of which Josephus speaks …