Occurrences
ʻĂmôrâh occurs 19 times in the King James.
Distribution of the word across the Bible: Genesis (9), Deuteronomy (2), Isaiah (3), Jeremiah (3), Amos (1), Zephaniah (1)
- Genesis 10:19 — And the border of the Canaanites was from Sidon, as thou comest to Gerar, unto Gaza; as thou goest, unto Sodom, and Gomorrah (וַעֲמֹרָ֛ה), and Admah, and Zeboim, even unto Lasha.
- Genesis 13:10 — And Lot lifted up his eyes, and beheld all the plain of Jordan, that it was well watered every where, before the LORD destroyed Sodom and Gomorrah (עֲמֹרָ֔ה), even as the garden of the LORD, like the land of Egypt, as thou comest unto Zoar.
- Genesis 14:2 — That these made war with Bera king of Sodom, and with Birsha king of Gomorrah (עֲמֹרָ֑ה), Shinab king of Admah, and Shemeber king of Zeboiim, and the king of Bela, which is Zoar.
- Genesis 14:8 — And there went out the king of Sodom, and the king of Gomorrah (עֲמֹרָ֗ה), and the king of Admah, and the king of Zeboiim, and the king of Bela (the same is Zoar;) and they joined battle with them in the vale of Siddim;
- Genesis 14:10 — And the vale of Siddim was full of slimepits; and the kings of Sodom and Gomorrah (וַעֲמֹרָ֖ה) fled, and fell there; and they that remained fled to the mountain.
- Genesis 14:11 — And they took all the goods of Sodom and Gomorrah (וַעֲמֹרָ֛ה), and all their victuals, and went their way.
- Genesis 18:20 — And the LORD said, Because the cry of Sodom and Gomorrah (וַעֲמֹרָ֖ה) is great, and because their sin is very grievous;
- Genesis 19:24 — Then the LORD rained upon Sodom and upon Gomorrah (עֲמֹרָ֖ה) brimstone and fire from the LORD out of heaven;
- Genesis 19:28 — And he looked toward Sodom and Gomorrah (וַעֲמֹרָ֔ה), and toward all the land of the plain, and beheld, and, lo, the smoke of the country went up as the smoke of a furnace.
- Deuteronomy 29:23 — And that the whole land thereof is brimstone, and salt, and burning, that it is not sown, nor beareth, nor any grass groweth therein, like the overthrow of Sodom, and Gomorrah (וַעֲמֹרָה֙), Admah, and Zeboim, which the LORD overthrew in his anger, and in his wrath:
- Deuteronomy 32:32 — For their vine is of the vine of Sodom, and of the fields of Gomorrah (עֲמֹרָ֑ה): their grapes are grapes of gall, their clusters are bitter:
- Isaiah 1:9 — Except the LORD of hosts had left unto us a very small remnant, we should have been as Sodom, and we should have been like unto Gomorrah (לַעֲמֹרָ֖ה).
- Isaiah 1:10 — Hear the word of the LORD, ye rulers of Sodom; give ear unto the law of our God, ye people of Gomorrah (עֲמֹרָֽה).
- Isaiah 13:19 — And Babylon, the glory of kingdoms, the beauty of the Chaldees’ excellency, shall be as when God overthrew Sodom and Gomorrah (עֲמֹרָֽה).
- Jeremiah 23:14 — I have seen also in the prophets of Jerusalem an horrible thing: they commit adultery, and walk in lies: they strengthen also the hands of evildoers, that none doth return from his wickedness: they are all of them unto me as Sodom, and the inhabitants thereof as Gomorrah (כַּעֲמֹרָֽה).
- Jeremiah 49:18 — As in the overthrow of Sodom and Gomorrah (וַעֲמֹרָ֛ה) and the neighbour cities thereof, saith the LORD, no man shall abide there, neither shall a son of man dwell in it.
- Jeremiah 50:40 — As God overthrew Sodom and Gomorrah (עֲמֹרָ֛ה) and the neighbour cities thereof, saith the LORD; so shall no man abide there, neither shall any son of man dwell therein.
- Amos 4:11 — I have overthrown some of you, as God overthrew Sodom and Gomorrah (עֲמֹרָ֔ה), and ye were as a firebrand plucked out of the burning: yet have ye not returned unto me, saith the LORD.
- Zephaniah 2:9 — Therefore as I live, saith the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel, Surely Moab shall be as Sodom, and the children of Ammon as Gomorrah (כַּֽעֲמֹרָ֔ה), even the breeding of nettles, and saltpits, and a perpetual desolation: the residue of my people shall spoil them, and the remnant of my people shall possess them.