noun
gomorras
Strong’sG1116
Gomorrah
stem gomorr-4 times in the New Testamentin 4 of 27 books3 of 16 forms occur
What it means
What the word means, in the words of the lexicons out of copyright — Abbott-Smith, Strong's, and Liddell-Scott-Jones, wherever each has an entry for it.
Γόμορρα, -ας, ἡ, and -ων, τά (Heb. עֲמֹרָה),
G. Abbott-Smith, A Manual Greek Lexicon of the New Testament, 1922 — public domain. References open in the reader.
Strong’s G1116 — the 1890 definition, and where the word comes from
Saidgom'-or-hrhah
Gomorrha (i.e. Amorah), a place near the Dead Sea
Fromof Hebrew origin ();
King JamesGomorrha.
James Strong, Exhaustive Concordance of the Bible, 1890 — public domain. The numbers in it link to the entries here.
Liddell-Scott-Jones — the classical dictionary this word appears in
Gomorrah, one of the cities of the plain (Gen.19):
(From Abbott-Smith. LSJ has no entry)
H. G. Liddell, R. Scott, H. S. Jones, A Greek-English Lexicon (9th ed., 1925–1940) — digitised by the Perseus Digital Library and corrected and expanded by Tyndale House, Cambridge, via STEPBible-Data's TFLSJ table, CC BY 4.0. Covers all of Greek literature, not just the Bible.
Translated as
Every occurrence, sorted by the English it was actually given — the evidence for what the word means, not a gloss of it.
Berean Standard Bible (BSB), dedicated to the public domain — berean.bible.
Biblang forms
Every form this word takes in Biblang, with the Greek it corresponds to and how often the New Testament uses it.
| Job in the sentence case | feminine singular | neuter singular | feminine plural | neuter plural |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| subject nominative | gomorras2×Γόμορρα | gomorrem | gomorrais | gomorreim |
| object accusative | gomorran | gomorrain | ||
| direct address vocative | gomorrar | gomorrair | ||
| of, belonging to genitive | gomorrau1×Γομόρρας | gomorreu | gomorraiu | gomorreiu1×Γομόρρων |
| to, for dative | gomorra | gomorre | gomorrai | gomorrei |
Tinted cells are forms the New Testament never uses, so there is no Greek to show against them — but they are still correct Biblang, built from the slots below like any other.
Why these forms, and no others — the slots that make them
gomorr is this word in every one of its forms. The slots after it make all the rest.
same in every form varies — every value shown
Where it appears
Every verse the word appears in, filed under the form it takes there.
4 occurrences, every one of them listed
gomorras“Gomorrah”subjectnominative singular2×
Romans 9:29… hōs Sodomeim an genina kai hōs Gomorras an homoiina.… like Sodom, we would have resembled Gomorrah.”
Jude 1:7hōs Sodomeim kai Gomorras kai tais peri autain polais, ton …In like manner, Sodom and Gomorrah and the cities around them, who …
gomorrau“Gomorrah”of, belonging togenitive singular1×
2 Peter 2:6kai polain Sodomeiu kai Gomorrau tefrarantos katastrofa katakrinata, hupodeigmem mellarōnteiu aseboi …… condemned the cities of Sodom and Gomorrah to destruction, reducing them to ashes …
gomorreiu“Gomorrah”of, belonging togenitive plural1×
Matthew 10:15… vi, anektoterem eti gēa Sodomeiu kai Gomorreiu en hēmera krisiau ē ta pola …… be more bearable for Sodom and Gomorrah on the day of judgment than …