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Genesis 14

Gen. 14:2 KJV (With Strong’s)

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That these made
`asah (Hebrew #6213)
to do or make, in the broadest sense and widest application (as follows)
KJV usage: accomplish, advance, appoint, apt, be at, become, bear, bestow, bring forth, bruise, be busy, X certainly, have the charge of, commit, deal (with), deck, + displease, do, (ready) dress(-ed), (put in) execute(-ion), exercise, fashion, + feast, (fight-)ing man, + finish, fit, fly, follow, fulfill, furnish, gather, get, go about, govern, grant, great, + hinder, hold ((a feast)), X indeed, + be industrious, + journey, keep, labour, maintain, make, be meet, observe, be occupied, offer, + officer, pare, bring (come) to pass, perform, pracise, prepare, procure, provide, put, requite, X sacrifice, serve, set, shew, X sin, spend, X surely, take, X thoroughly, trim, X very, + vex, be (warr-)ior, work(-man), yield, use.
Pronounce: aw-saw'
Origin: a primitive root
war
milchamah (Hebrew #4421)
a battle (i.e. the engagement); generally, war (i.e. warfare)
KJV usage: battle, fight(-ing), war((-rior)).
Pronounce: mil-khaw-maw'
Origin: from 3898 (in the sense of fighting)
with
'eth (Hebrew #854)
properly, nearness (used only as a preposition or an adverb), near; hence, generally, with, by, at, among, etc.
KJV usage: against, among, before, by, for, from, in(-to), (out) of, with. Often with another prepositional prefix.
Pronounce: ayth
Origin: probably from 579
Bera
Bera` (Hebrew #1298)
Bera, a Sodomitish king
KJV usage: Bera.
Pronounce: beh'-rah
Origin: of uncertain derivation
king
melek (Hebrew #4428)
a king
KJV usage: king, royal.
Pronounce: meh'-lek
Origin: from 4427
of Sodom
Cdom (Hebrew #5467)
burnt (i.e. volcanic or bituminous) district; Sedom, a place near the Dead Sea
KJV usage: Sodom.
Pronounce: sed-ome'
Origin: from an unused root meaning to scorch
, and with Birsha
Birsha` (Hebrew #1306)
with wickedness; Birsha, a king of Gomorrah
KJV usage: Birsha.
Pronounce: beer-shah'
Origin: probably from 7562 with a prepositional prefix
king
melek (Hebrew #4428)
a king
KJV usage: king, royal.
Pronounce: meh'-lek
Origin: from 4427
of Gomorrah
`Amorah (Hebrew #6017)
a (ruined) heap; Amorah, a place in Palestine
KJV usage: Gomorrah.
Pronounce: am-o-raw'
Origin: from 6014
, Shinab
Shin'ab (Hebrew #8134)
a father has turned; Shinab, a Canaanite
KJV usage: Shinab.
Pronounce: shin-awb'
Origin: probably from {SI 18132}8132{/SI} and 1
king
melek (Hebrew #4428)
a king
KJV usage: king, royal.
Pronounce: meh'-lek
Origin: from 4427
of Admah
'Admah (Hebrew #126)
earthy; Admah, a place near the Dead Sea
KJV usage: Admah.
Pronounce: ad-maw'
Origin: contracted for 127
d, and Shemeber
Shem'eber (Hebrew #8038)
name of pinion, i.e. illustrious; Shemeber, a king of Zeboim
KJV usage: Shemeber.
Pronounce: shem-ay'-ber
Origin: apparently from 8034 and 83
king
melek (Hebrew #4428)
a king
KJV usage: king, royal.
Pronounce: meh'-lek
Origin: from 4427
of Zeboiim
Tsbo'iym (Hebrew #6636)
or Tsbiyim {tseb-ee-yeem'}; plural of 6643; gazelles; Tseboim or Tsebijim, a place in Palestine
KJV usage: Zeboiim, Zeboim.
Pronounce: tseb-o-eem'
Origin: or (more correctly) Tsbiyiym {tseb-ee-yeem'}
, and the king
melek (Hebrew #4428)
a king
KJV usage: king, royal.
Pronounce: meh'-lek
Origin: from 4427
of Bela
Bela` (Hebrew #1106)
Bela, the name of a place, also of an Edomite and of two Israelites
KJV usage: Bela.
Pronounce: beh'-lah
Origin: the same as 1105
, which is
huw' (Hebrew #1931)
a primitive word, the third person pronoun singular, he (she or it); only expressed when emphatic or without a verb; also (intensively) self, or (especially with the article) the same; sometimes (as demonstrative) this or that; occasionally (instead of copula) as or are
KJV usage: he, as for her, him(-self), it, the same, she (herself), such, that (...it), these, they, this, those, which (is), who.
Pronounce: hoo
Origin: of which the feminine (beyond the Pentateuch) is hiyw {he}
e Zoar
Tso`ar (Hebrew #6820)
little; Tsoar, a place East of the Jordan
KJV usage: Zoar.
Pronounce: tso'ar
Origin: from 6819
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Deut. 29:23• 23that the whole ground thereof is brimstone and salt, and burning, that it is not sown, nor beareth, and no grass groweth in it, like the overthrow of Sodom and Gomorrah, Admah and Zeboim, which Jehovah overthrew in his anger and in his fury: (Deut. 29:23)
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Hos. 11:8• 8How shall I give thee over, Ephraim? how shall I deliver thee up, Israel? how shall I make thee as Admah? how shall I set thee as Zeboim? My heart is turned within me, my repentings are kindled together. (Hos. 11:8)
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Gen. 19:22• 22Haste, escape thither; for I cannot do anything until thou art come there. Therefore the name of the city is called Zoar. (Gen. 19:22)

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Admah,
Bela; Belah,
Bera,
Birsha,
Gomorrah; Gomorrha,
King,
Shemeber,
Shinab,
Sodom; Sodoma,
War,
Zeboim; Zeboiim,
Zoar

Cross References

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Sodom.
Gen. 10:19• 19And the border of the Canaanite was from Sidon, as one goes to Gerar, up to Gazah; as one goes to Sodom, and Gomorrah, and Admah, and Zeboim, up to Lesha. (Gen. 10:19)
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Gen. 13:10• 10And Lot lifted up his eyes, and beheld all the plain of the Jordan that it was thoroughly watered, before Jehovah had destroyed Sodom and Gomorrah; as the garden of Jehovah, like the land of Egypt, as one goes to Zoar. (Gen. 13:10)
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Gen. 19:24• 24And Jehovah rained on Sodom and Gomorrah brimstone and fire from Jehovah out of heaven, (Gen. 19:24)
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Isa. 1:9‑10• 9Unless Jehovah of hosts had left us a very small residue, we should have been as Sodom, we should have been like unto Gomorrah.
 10Hear the word of Jehovah, rulers of Sodom; give ear unto the law of our God, people of Gomorrah! (Isa. 1:9‑10)
Admah.
Deut. 29:23• 23that the whole ground thereof is brimstone and salt, and burning, that it is not sown, nor beareth, and no grass groweth in it, like the overthrow of Sodom and Gomorrah, Admah and Zeboim, which Jehovah overthrew in his anger and in his fury: (Deut. 29:23)
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Hos. 11:8• 8How shall I give thee over, Ephraim? how shall I deliver thee up, Israel? how shall I make thee as Admah? how shall I set thee as Zeboim? My heart is turned within me, my repentings are kindled together. (Hos. 11:8)
Zeboiim.
1 Sam. 13:18• 18and another company turned the way to Beth-horon; and the other company turned the way to the district that looks over the ravine of Zeboim toward the wilderness. (1 Sam. 13:18)
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Neh. 11:34• 34Hadid, Zeboim, Neballat, (Neh. 11:34)
Zoar.
Gen. 19:20‑30• 20Behold now, this city is near to flee to, and it is small: I pray thee, let me escape thither--is it not small?--and my soul shall live.
 21And he said to him, Behold, I have accepted thee concerning this thing also, that I will not overthrow the city of which thou hast spoken.
 22Haste, escape thither; for I cannot do anything until thou art come there. Therefore the name of the city is called Zoar.
 23The sun rose upon the earth when Lot came to Zoar.
 24And Jehovah rained on Sodom and Gomorrah brimstone and fire from Jehovah out of heaven,
 25and overthrew those cities, and all the plain, and all the inhabitants of the cities, and what grew upon the ground.
 26And his wife looked back from behind him, and she became a pillar of salt.
 27And Abraham rose early in the morning and went to the place where he had stood before Jehovah;
 28and he looked toward Sodom and Gomorrah, and toward all the land of the plain, and beheld, and lo, a smoke went up from the land as the smoke of a furnace.
 29And it came to pass when God destroyed the cities of the plain, that God remembered Abraham, and sent Lot out of the midst of the overthrow, when he overthrew the cities in which Lot dwelt.
 30And Lot went up from Zoar, and dwelt in the mountain, and his two daughters with him; for he feared to dwell in Zoar. And he dwelt in a cave, he and his two daughters. (Gen. 19:20‑30)
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Deut. 34:3• 3and the south, and the plain of the valley of Jericho, the city of palm-trees, to Zoar. (Deut. 34:3)
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Isa. 15:5• 5My heart crieth out for Moab; their fugitives have fled unto Zoar, unto Eglath-Shelishijah: for by the ascent of Luhith, with weeping they go up by it; for in the way of Horonaim they raise up a cry of destruction. (Isa. 15:5)
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Jer. 48:34• 34Because of the cry from Heshbon, unto Elaleh, unto Jahaz have they uttered their voice, from Zoar unto Horonaim, unto Eglath-shelishijah: for even the waters of Nimrim shall become desolations. (Jer. 48:34)

J. N. Darby Translation

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that they made war with Bera the king of Sodom, and with Birsha the king of Gomorrah, Shinab the king of Admah, and Shemeber the king of Zeboim, and the king of Bela, which is Zoar.