This is the name of the place Sodom: Wicked city destroyed by God for its sins.
Definition
Σόδομα, -ων, τά (Heb. סְדֹם),
Sodom (Genesis 13:10, 12, al.): Matthew 10:15; 11:23-24, Luke 10:12; 17:29, Romans 9:29" (LXX), 2 Peter 2:6, Jude 7, Revelation 11:8.
Hebrew words it translates
The Hebrew words that the ancient Greek translation of the Old Testament renders as Σόδομα:
Usage patterns
Occurrences
9 total
- Matthew 10:15Σοδόμων · for SodomTruly I tell you, it will be more bearable for Sodom and Gomorrah on the day of judgment than for that town.
- Matthew 11:23Σοδόμοις · SodomAnd you, Capernaum, will you be lifted up to heaven? No, you will be brought down to Hades! For if the miracles that were performed in you had been performed in Sodom, it would have remained to this day.
- Matthew 11:24Σοδόμων · for SodomBut I tell you that it will be more bearable for Sodom on the day of judgment than for you.”
- Luke 10:12Σοδόμοις · for SodomI tell you, it will be more bearable on that day for Sodom than for that town.
- Luke 17:29Σοδόμων · SodomBut on the day Lot left Sodom, fire and sulfur rained down from heaven and destroyed them all.
- Romans 9:29Σόδομα · SodomIt is just as Isaiah foretold: “Unless the Lord of Hosts had left us descendants, we would have become like Sodom, we would have resembled Gomorrah.”
- 2 Peter 2:6Σοδόμων · of Sodom…if He condemned the cities of Sodom and Gomorrah to destruction, reducing them to ashes as an example of what is coming on the ungodly;
- Jude 1:7Σόδομα · SodomIn like manner, Sodom and Gomorrah and the cities around them, who indulged in sexual immorality and pursued strange flesh, are on display as an example of those who sustain the punishment of eternal fire.
- Revelation 11:8Σόδομα · SodomTheir bodies will lie in the street of the great city—figuratively called Sodom and Egypt—where their Lord was also crucified.