סְדֹם
Çᵉdôm · sed-ome'
Sedom, a place near the Dead Sea
Lexicon
Derivation: from an unused root meaning to scorch; burnt (i.e. volcanic or bituminous) district;
Sedom, a place near the Dead Sea
Definition from Strong's Exhaustive Concordance (1890). Wording is Strong's own, including his etymological notes, which are not separate meanings.
KJV renderings: Sodom.
Letters
- סSamekh60
Picture: a prop or pillar
- Concrete
- pillar · prop · thorn
- Extended
- to support · to uphold · to turn around · to be trusted
- דDalet4
Picture: tent door hanging down
- Concrete
- door · curtain · entrance
- Extended
- a way in or out · moving back and forth · a path · hanging
- מMem40
Picture: waves of water
- Concrete
- water · sea · blood · liquid
- Extended
- chaos · mighty and uncontrollable · the masses · from / out of
Possible cultural reading (auto-composed)
to support and uphold › the doorway, the way in › water, chaos, the mighty deep
To support and uphold of the doorway, the way in of water, chaos, the mighty deep.
Interpretive, not lexical. The dictionary sense of סְדֹם above is the attested meaning; this pictographic reading is a tradition about how the sign-shapes may have been heard. Both can be held at once, they are answering different questions.
Usage
39 occurrences · 39 OT · 0 NT · 21 distinct forms
KJV renderings of this word, by how often each one is used.
- of sodom16 · 41%
- sodom11 · 28%
- in sodom2 · 5%
- as sodom2 · 5%
- unto sodom1 · 3%
- toward sodom1 · 3%
- to sodom1 · 3%
- upon sodom1 · 3%
- they are all of them unto me as sodom1 · 3%
- of the sin of sodom1 · 3%
- is sodom1 · 3%
- shall be as sodom1 · 3%
Where it is used, by book.
Inflected forms found in the text.
Counts are computed from the tagged Hebrew and Greek text aligned to the King James Version, not from an estimate.