GOMORRAH
“immersion” (cp. the Arabic “ghamara”, “flood”).
City of the plain of Jordan (Gen. 10:19; 13:10).
Chedorlaomer and his allies defeated the king of Sodom and Gomorrah, sacking both cities (Gen. 14: 8-11).
Because of the unleashed perversity of their inhabitants, they were destroyed a short time later by fire from heaven (Gen. 18:20; 19:24-28; Deut. 29:23; Is. 1:9; Am. 4:11; Jer. 23:14; 49:18; Zeph. 2:9; Mt. 10:15).
Its historicity has been vindicated by the recent discoveries of Ebla at Tell Mardikh, where tablets have been found that mention Gomorrah and the other neighboring cities as centers of contemporary trade.