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Definition of Sodom

1. Noun. Any location known for vice and corruption.

2. Noun. (Old Testament) an ancient city near the Dead Sea that (along with Gomorrah) was destroyed by God for the wickedness of its inhabitants.

Definition of Sodom

1. Proper noun. a city in the Middle East destroyed in the Bible by the Hebrew God for the sins of its inhabitants. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Sodom

1. a place notorious for vice and corruption [n -S]

Lexicographical Neighbors of Sodom

Socotrans Socrates Socratic Socratic irony Socratic method Socratically Socratics Socratism Socratist Socratists

Socred Socreds Sod's Law Sod's law Sodano Soemmerring's ganglion Soemmerring's ligament Soemmerring's muscle Soemmerring's spot Sofana

Sofi Sofia Sofia Scicolone Sofian Sofians Sofis Sofism

Literary usage of Sodom

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The Theological and Literary Journal (1851)
"Here our author expressly avers that tho rulers of sodom, and people of Gomorrah, denote the rulers and people of Jerusalem. Is it not obvious then, ..."

2. A Dictionary of the Bible: Comprising Its Antiquities, Biography, Geography by William Smith, John Mee Fuller (1893)
"... where of the wicked it is said— "their vine is of the vine of sodom, and of th« fields of Gomorrah." It is generally supposed that this passage alludes ..."

3. The Works of President Edwards: With a Memoir of His Life by Jonathan Edwards, David Brainerd (1830)
"Next he compares it to the destruction of sodom and Gomorrah; • likewise also, ... Jerusalem was like sodom, in that it was devoted to destruction, ..."

4. The Works of President Edwards: With a Memoir of His Life by Jonathan Edwards, Sereno Edwards Dwight (1829)
"Next he compares it to the destruction of sodom and Gomorrah; " likewise also, ... Jerusalem was like sodom, in that it was devoted to destruction, ..."

5. The Heroes and Crises of Early Hebrew History from the Creation to the Death by Charles Foster Kent (1908)
"(4) Unselfish service for others always brings its sure and rich reward. § IX. THE DESTRUCTION OF sodom i. De- Then the men rose up from there and looked ..."

6. The Heroes and Crises of Early Hebrew History: From the Creation to the by Charles Foster Kent (1908)
"(4) Unselfish service for others always brings its sure and rich reward. § IX. THE DESTRUCTION OF sodom 1. De- Then the men rose up from there and looked ..."

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