1. Zoar (place name) — A proper noun referring to Zoar (tso'ar, meaning 'small/insignificant'), one of the five cities of the plain where Lot took refuge during the destruction of Sodom and Gomorrah (Gen 13:10; 14:2,8; 19:22,23,30; Deut 34:3; Isa 15:5; Jer 48:34). All three clusters are grammatical variants of the same toponym: bare/directional 'Zoar/to Zoar' (S130430), prepositional 'in Zoar/from Zoar' (S130431), and a further prepositional 'from Tsoar' (S130435). Multilingual evidence confirms a single geographic referent: 'तसोअर/सोअर' (hin), 'صُوعَرَ/صُوغَرَ' (arb), '소알/소아르' (kor), 'Soari' (swa), 'Zoar/Tzoar/Tsoar' (spa). Prepositions (be-, min-) are syntactic, not semantic. 10×
AR["صُوعَرَ","صُوعَرُ","صُوغَر","صُوغَرَ","فِي-صُوغَر","مِنْ-صُوعَرَ","مِنْ-صُوغَر"]·ben["-সোয়রে","সোয়র","সোয়র-থেকে","সোয়রে"]·DE["Zoar","[מצער]","[צער]","aus-Zoar","in-Zoar","nach-Zoar"]·EN["Zoar","from-Tsoar","from-Zoar","in-Zoar","to-Zoar"]·FR["Tsoar","Zoar","[מצער]","[צער]","dans-Tsoar","de-Tsoar","à-Tsoar"]·heb["ב-צוער","מ-צוער","צוער","צער","צערה-ה"]·HI["तसोअर","तसोअर-मे","तसोअर-से","से-सोअर","सोअर"]·ID["Zoar","dari-Zoar","di-Zoar","ke-Zoar"]·IT["Zoar","[מצער]","[צער]","a-Zoar","da-Zoar","in-Zoar"]·jav["Soar","Zoar","ing-Zoar","saking-Zoar"]·KO["소아르에서-","소알","소알까지","소알로","소알에","소알에서"]·PT["Tso'ar","Tso'arah","Tsoar","Zoar","de-Tso'ar","de-Tsoar","em-Tso'ar"]·RU["Цоар","Цоара","в-Цоар","в-Цоаре","из-Цоара","от-Цоара"]·ES["Tzoar","Zoar","a-Tzoar","de-Tzoar","desde-Tsoar","en-Tzoar"]·SW["Soari","kutoka-Soari","ndogo"]·TR["-den-Tsoar'dan","Soar","Soar'a","Soar'da","Soar'dan","Tsoar","Tsoar'a"]·urd["صعر","صغر-سے","صوعر","صوغر","صوغر-سے","صوغر-میں"]
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BDB / Lexicon Reference
† צֹ֫עַר, צ֫וֹעַר n.pr.loc. Zoar (understood as insignificance, cf. Gn 19:20);—Σηγωρ, 𝔊L Σιγωρ, but Gn 13:10 Je 48:34 Ζογορ(α); on 𝔊 cf. furhter LagBN 54 f.: city at SE. end of Dead Sea, צֹעַר Gn 13:10; 14:2, 8 (both = בֶּלַע), Dt 34:3; Is 15:5; Je 48:34; צוֹעַר Gn 19:22, 30(×2); c. ה loc., צֹ֫עֲרָה v 23 + Je 48:4 (for MT צעוריה), 𝔊 Ζογορα, JDMich Ew Gf Gie al.—cf. BuhlGeogr. 271. 274 GASmGeogr. 506 f. 678 (App.).