Definitions for sodom and gomorrah
sodom and go·mor·rah

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1. Sodom and Gomorrah

   Sodom and Gomorrah () were two legendary biblical cities destroyed by God for their wickedness. Their story parallels the Genesis flood narrative in its theme of God's anger provoked by man's sin (see Genesis 19:1–28). They are mentioned frequently in the prophets and the New Testament as symbols of human wickedness and divine retribution, and the Quran also contains a version of the story about the two cities. The legend of their destruction may have originated as an attempt to explain the remains of third-millennium Bronze Age cities in the region, and subsequent Late Bronze Age collapse.

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1. Sodom and Gomorrah

   Sodom and Gomorrah were cities mentioned in the Book of Genesis and throughout the Hebrew Bible, the New Testament and Deuterocanonical sources, as well as the Qur'an. According to the Torah, the kingdoms of Sodom and Gomorrah were allied with the cities of Admah, Zeboim and Bela. These five cities, also known as the "cities of the plain", were situated on the Jordan river plain in the southern region of the land of Canaan. The Jordan river plain has been compared to the garden of Eden, being a land well-watered and green, suitable for grazing livestock. Divine judgment by Yahweh was then passed upon Sodom and Gomorrah along with two other neighboring cities that were completely consumed by fire and brimstone. Neighboring Zoar was the only city to be spared during that day of judgment. In Abrahamic traditions, Sodom and Gomorrah have become synonymous with impenitent sin, and their fall with a proverbial manifestation of God's wrath. Sodom and Gomorrah have been used as metaphors for homosexuality and vice viewed as a deviation. The story has therefore given rise to words in several languages, including the English word sodomy, used in sodomy laws to describe a sexual "crime against nature" consisting of anal and/or oral sex, either homosexual or heterosexual.

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1. Sodom and Gomorrah

   two ancient cities which, for their wickedness were, as the Bible relates, consumed with fire from heaven; they are supposed to have stood near the S. border of the Dead Sea, though they were not, as was at one time supposed, submerged in the waters of it.

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Numerology

1. Chaldean Numerology

   The numerical value of sodom and gomorrah in Chaldean Numerology is: 3

2. Pythagorean Numerology

   The numerical value of sodom and gomorrah in Pythagorean Numerology is: 9

Examples of sodom and gomorrah in a Sentence

1. Medard Bitekyerezo:

   The U.S. Supreme Court's declaration shows the West has become totally disoriented and descended into a Sodom and Gomorrah society, but that's their business - they can't impose it on us.

References

1. ^ Wikipedia
   https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sodom_and_Gomorrah
2. ^ Wikidata
   https://www.wikidata.org/w/index.php?search=sodom and gomorrah
3. ^ The Nuttall Encyclopedia
   https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/12342/pg12342-images.html#SodomandGomorrah