עֲמֹרָה
ʻĂmôrâh · am-o-raw'
Amorah, a place in Palestine
Lexicon
Derivation: from H6014 (עָמַר); a (ruined) heap;
Amorah, a place in Palestine
Definition from Strong's Exhaustive Concordance (1890). Wording is Strong's own, including his etymological notes, which are not separate meanings.
KJV renderings: Gomorrah.
Letters
- עAyin70
Picture: an eye
- Concrete
- eye · spring of water
- Extended
- to see · to know · experience · to watch
- מMem40
Picture: waves of water
- Concrete
- water · sea · blood · liquid
- Extended
- chaos · mighty and uncontrollable · the masses · from / out of
- רResh200
Picture: a human head
- Concrete
- head · face · person
- Extended
- first · top · beginning · chief · the highest
- הHe5
Picture: a person with both arms raised
- Concrete
- a man calling out · a window · breath
- Extended
- behold! · revelation · to reveal · the (definite article)
Possible cultural reading (auto-composed)
to see and know › water, chaos, the mighty deep › the head, the highest › to reveal, behold
To see and know of water, chaos, the mighty deep of the head, the highest that works to reveal, behold.
Interpretive, not lexical. The dictionary sense of עֲמֹרָה 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
19 occurrences · 19 OT · 0 NT · 13 distinct forms
KJV renderings of this word, by how often each one is used.
- and gomorrah11 · 58%
- of gomorrah4 · 21%
- and upon gomorrah1 · 5%
- unto gomorrah1 · 5%
- thereof as gomorrah1 · 5%
- as gomorrah1 · 5%
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.