H0126 H0126
Admah — a city in the Vale of Siddim, destroyed alongside Sodom and Gomorrah
Admah was one of the five 'cities of the plain' in the Vale of Siddim, listed alongside Sodom, Gomorrah, Zeboiim, and Zoar. Its five occurrences trace a narrative arc: first in the Table of Nations as a Canaanite border city (Gen 10:19), then in the alliance of kings defeated by the eastern coalition (Gen 14:2, 8), and finally as a byword for divine judgment. Deuteronomy 29:23 names Admah alongside Sodom in describing covenant-curse devastation, and Hosea 11:8 — 'How can I make you like Admah?' — reveals God's anguished reluctance to destroy Ephraim as he did this ancient city. The multilingual glosses confirm the name's stability across traditions.
Senses
1. sense 1 — The proper name Admah, designating a Canaanite city in the Vale of Siddim that was destroyed by divine judgment alongside Sodom and Gomorrah. Appears in the Table of Nations as a border marker (Gen 10:19), in the narrative of the battle of the kings (Gen 14:2, 8), and in two later allusions to its destruction: as a covenant-curse exemplar (Deut 29:23) and in God's poignant rhetorical question about Ephraim's fate (Hos 11:8). Prepositional forms ('like Admah,' 'and Admah') reflect syntactic variation rather than any semantic distinction. 5×
AR["أَدْمَةَ", "كَأَدمَةَ", "وَ-أَدْمَةَ"]·ben["অদ্মার", "আদমার", "আদমার-মতো-", "আর-আদমা"]·DE["Admah", "[כאדמה]", "und-Adma", "von-Adma"]·EN["Admah", "and-Admah", "like-Admah"]·FR["Admah", "et-Admah", "terre"]·heb["אדמה", "ו-אדמה", "כ-אדמה"]·HI["अदमह-क", "अदमा-के-समान", "अदमाह", "और-अदमाह"]·ID["Adma", "dan-Adma"]·IT["Admah", "[כאדמה]", "e-Admah"]·jav["Adma", "kados-Adma", "lan-Adma"]·KO["같으니라-아드마에", "그리고-아드마", "아드마와", "아드마의"]·PT["Admah", "Admá", "como-Admah", "e-Admah"]·RU["Адмы", "и-Адме", "как-Адма"]·ES["Adma", "Admá", "como-Adma", "y-Admá"]·SW["Adma", "kama-Adma", "na-Adma"]·TR["Adma'nın", "Adma-gibi", "ve-Adma'ya"]·urd["ادماہ-کی-طرح", "ادمہ", "ادمہ-کا", "اور-ادمہ"]
Related Senses
G3588 1. definite article (18298×)H0853 1. definite direct object marker (10915×)G2532 1. (8312×)H3068 1. YHWH (the divine name) (6522×)H0834a 1. relative pronoun (who/which/that) (4839×)H3588a 1. causal: because, for (3498×)G1161 1. and (2806×)H3478 1. Israel (proper name and nation) (2507×)G4771 1. you (plural address) (1853×)H1931 1. personal pronoun he/she/it (1431×)G3739 1. relative pronoun who/which/that (1149×)H1732 1. David (proper name) (1075×)H2088 1. this, this one (demonstrative) (1059×)G1063 1. (1047×)G3778 1. this thing, these things (1003×)H???? 2. (1002×)G2424 1. (924×)G3754 1. that (content clause) (881×)H2009 1. presentative particle: behold, look (881×)H0589 1. I (first person singular pronoun) (874×)
BDB / Lexicon Reference
† אַדְמָה n.pr.loc. city in Vale of Siddim Gn 10:19; 14:2, 8 Dt 29:22 Ho 11:8.