Sodom

3 definitions found

From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  sodom
       n 1: any location known for vice and corruption
       2: (Old Testament) an ancient city near the Dead Sea that
          (along with Gomorrah) was destroyed by God for the
          wickedness of its inhabitants



From Easton's 1897 Bible Dictionary [easton]:

  Sodom
     burning; the walled, a city in the vale of Siddim (Gen. 13:10;
     14:1-16). The wickedness of its inhabitants brought down upon it
     fire from heaven, by which it was destroyed (18:16-33; 19:1-29;
     Deut. 23:17). This city and its awful destruction are frequently
     alluded to in Scripture (Deut. 29:23; 32:32; Isa. 1:9, 10; 3:9;
     13:19; Jer. 23:14; Ezek. 16:46-56; Zeph. 2:9; Matt. 10:15; Rom.
     9:29; 2 Pet. 2:6, etc.). No trace of it or of the other cities
     of the plain has been discovered, so complete was their
     destruction. Just opposite the site of Zoar, on the south-west
     coast of the Dead Sea, is a range of low hills, forming a mass
     of mineral salt called Jebel Usdum, "the hill of Sodom." It has
     been concluded, from this and from other considerations, that
     the cities of the plain stood at the southern end of the Dead
     Sea. Others, however, with much greater probability, contend
     that they stood at the northern end of the sea. [in 1897].
     

From Hitchcock's Bible Names Dictionary (late 1800's) [hitchcock]:

  Sodom, their secret; their cement