Senses
1. Sodom (city) — The ancient city of Sodom in the Jordan plain, destroyed by divine judgment (Genesis 19), frequently invoked as a paradigm of wickedness and catastrophic punishment throughout prophetic and wisdom literature. All four clusters represent the same toponym with different prepositions: bare nominative/genitive, with ke- (like Sodom), with be- (in Sodom), and directional (to/toward Sodom). Multilingual glosses are uniform: Arabic Saduma, Spanish Sodoma/Sedom, Hindi Sadom/Sedom, Korean Sodom, Swahili Sodoma. Purely grammatical variants of one place name. 39×
AR["سَدُوم","سَدُومَ"]·ben["সদোম","সদোমের"]·DE["Sodom","Sodoms","[סדם]","nach-Sodom","von-Sodom"]·EN["Sodom"]·FR["Sodom","Sodome"]·heb["סדום","סדם","סדמה-ה"]·HI["सदोम","सदोम-की","सदोम-के","सेदोम","सेदोम-क","सेदोम-कि","सेदोम-के","सेदोम-तक"]·ID["Sodom"]·IT["Sodom","Sodoma"]·jav["Sodom"]·KO["소돔","소돔과","소돔의"]·PT["Sedom","Sodoma"]·RU["Сдома","Седома","Содом","Содома","к-Содому"]·ES["Sedom","Sedomá","Sodoma"]·SW["Sodoma"]·TR["Sedom'un","Sodom'a","Sodom'u","Sodom'un"]·urd["سدوم","سدوم-کا","سدوم-کی","سدوم-کے"]
BDB / Lexicon Reference
סְדֹם39 n.pr.loc. Sodom, important Canaanitish city named (usually) with Gomorrha (עֲמֹרָה, q.v.);—𝔊 Σόδομα (inflected Σοδόμων, Σοδόμοις):—ס׳ (on format. cf. LagBN 54), Gn 13:10, 12, 13 + 7 times Gn 18, 19, + סְדֹ֫מָה (ה loc.) Gn 10:19; 18:22; 19:1 (all J), + 8 times Gn 14; from 8th cent. onwards, used as illustrating י׳’s judgments, Am 4:11 Is 1:9; 13:19 Dt 29:22 Je 49:18; 50:40 Zp 2:9 La 4:6;…