Genesis 14:10

American Standard Version with Strong's Numbers

Now the vale of Siddim was full of slime pits; and the kings of Sodom and Gomorrah fled, and they fell there, and they that remained fled to the mountain.

Grammatical Analysis

Original Text

וְעֵ֣מֶק הַשִׂדִּ֗ים בּֽ͏ֶאֱרֹ֤ת בֶּאֱרֹת֙ חֵמָ֔ר וַיָּנֻ֛סוּ מֶֽלֶךְ־סְדֹ֥ם וַעֲמֹרָ֖ה וַיִּפְּלוּ־שָׁ֑מָּה וְהַנִּשְׁאָרִ֖ים הֶ֥רָה נָּֽסוּ׃

Transliteration

wə-ʿēmeq haś-śiddîm beʾĕrōṯ beʾĕrōṯ ḥēmār way-yānusû melek-səḏōm wa-ʿămōrāh way-yippəlû-šāmmāh wə-han-nišʾārîm herāh nāsû

Grammar Details

*wə-ʿēmeq*: conjunction + common noun, masculine singular, construct - and valley of
*haś-śiddîm*: definite article + proper noun - the Siddim
*beʾĕrōṯ*: common noun, feminine plural, repeated for emphasis - pits/wells
*ḥēmār*: common noun, masculine singular - bitumen/asphalt/tar
*way-yānusû*: consecutive imperfect, 3rd plural - and they fled
*melek*: construct state noun, masculine singular - king of
*səḏōm*: proper noun, place name (Sodom)
*wa-ʿămōrāh*: conjunction + proper noun, place name (Gomorrah)
*way-yippəlû*: consecutive imperfect, 3rd plural - and they fell
*šāmmāh*: adverb - there/therein
*wə-han-nišʾārîm*: conjunction + definite article + niphal participle, masculine plural - and the remaining ones
*herāh*: common noun with directional suffix - to the mountain/hill
*nāsû*: perfect, 3rd plural - they fled

Word Meanings

*beʾĕrōṯ* *beʾĕrōṯ*: pits upon pits/many wells/full of pits
*ḥēmār*: bitumen/asphalt/slime/tar
*way-yippəlû*-*šāmmāh*: fell there/fell into them
*herāh*: to the mountain/mountains/hill country

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American Standard Version with Strong's Numbers

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Referenced Verses

Gen 19:17 : 17 And it came to pass, when they had brought them forth abroad, that he said, Escape for thy life; look not behind thee, neither stay thou in all the Plain; escape to the mountain, lest thou be consumed.
Gen 19:30 : 30 And Lot went up out of Zoar, and dwelt in the mountain, and his two daughters with him; for he feared to dwell in Zoar: and he dwelt in a cave, he and his two daughters.
Gen 11:3 : 3 And they said one to another, Come, let us make brick, and burn them thoroughly. And they had brick for stone, and slime had they for mortar.
Josh 8:24 : 24 And it came to pass, when Israel had made an end of slaying all the inhabitants of Ai in the field, in the wilderness wherein they pursued them, and they were all fallen by the edge of the sword, until they were consumed, that all Israel returned unto Ai, and smote it with the edge of the sword.
Ps 83:10 : 10 Who perished at Endor, Who became as dung for the earth.
Isa 24:18 : 18 And it shall come to pass, that he who fleeth from the noise of the fear shall fall into the pit; and he that cometh up out of the midst of the pit shall be taken in the snare: for the windows on high are opened, and the foundations of the earth tremble.
Jer 48:44 : 44 He that fleeth from the fear shall fall into the pit; and he that getteth up out of the pit shall be taken in the snare: for I will bring upon him, even upon Moab, the year of their visitation, saith Jehovah.

Similar Verses (AI)

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Gen 14:8-9
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8And there went out the king of Sodom, and the king of Gomorrah, and the king of Admah, and the king of Zeboiim, and the king of Bela (the same is Zoar); and they set the battle in array against them in the vale of Siddim;
9against Chedorlaomer king of Elam, and Tidal king of Goiim, and Amraphel king of Shinar, and Arioch king of Ellasar; four kings against the five.
Gen 14:1-6
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1And it came to pass in the days of Amraphel king of Shinar, Arioch king of Ellasar, Chedorlaomer king of Elam, and Tidal king of Goiim,
2that they made war with Bera king of Sodom, and with Birsha king of Gomorrah, Shinab king of Admah, and Shemeber king of Zeboiim, and the king of Bela (the same is Zoar).
3All these joined together in the vale of Siddim (the same is the Salt Sea).
4Twelve years they served Chedorlaomer, and in the thirteenth year they rebelled.
5And in the fourteenth year came Chedorlaomer, and the kings that were with him, and smote the Rephaim in Ashteroth-karnaim, and the Zuzim in Ham, and the Emim in Shaveh-kiriathaim,
6and the Horites in their mount Seir, unto Elparan, which is by the wilderness.
Gen 14:11-12
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11And they took all the goods of Sodom and Gomorrah, and all their victuals, and went their way.
12And they took Lot, Abram's brother's son, who dwelt in Sodom, and his goods, and departed.
Gen 14:17
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17And the king of Sodom went out to meet him, after his return from the slaughter of Chedorlaomer and the kings that were with him, at the vale of Shaveh (the same is the King's Vale).
Luke 17:29
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29but in the day that Lot went out from Sodom it rained fire and brimstone from heaven, and destroyed them all:
Gen 13:10-13
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10And Lot lifted up his eyes, and beheld all the Plain of the Jordan, that it was well watered every where, before Jehovah destroyed Sodom and Gomorrah, like the garden of Jehovah, like the land of Egypt, as thou goest unto Zoar.
11So Lot chose him all the Plain of the Jordan; and Lot journeyed east: and they separated themselves the one from the other.
12Abram dwelt in the land of Canaan, and Lot dwelt in the cities of the Plain, and moved his tent as far as Sodom.
13Now the men of Sodom were wicked and sinners against Jehovah exceedingly.
Gen 19:24-25
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24Then Jehovah rained upon Sodom and upon Gomorrah brimstone and fire from Jehovah out of heaven;
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Deut 29:23
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23[ and that] the whole land thereof is brimstone, and salt, [and] a burning, [that] it is not sown, nor beareth, nor any grass groweth therein, like the overthrow of Sodom and Gomorrah, Admah and Zeboiim, which Jehovah overthrew in his anger, and in his wrath:
Gen 19:17
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17And it came to pass, when they had brought them forth abroad, that he said, Escape for thy life; look not behind thee, neither stay thou in all the Plain; escape to the mountain, lest thou be consumed.
Gen 10:19
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19And the border of the Canaanite was from Sidon, as thou goest toward Gerar, unto Gaza; as thou goest toward Sodom and Gomorrah and Admah and Zeboiim, unto Lasha.
Gen 19:28-29
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Gen 14:21
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21And the king of Sodom said unto Abram, Give me the persons, and take the goods to thyself.
2 Pet 2:6
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6and turning the cities of Sodom and Gomorrah into ashes condemned them with an overthrow, having made them an example unto those that should live ungodly;
Gen 18:20
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20And Jehovah said, Because the cry of Sodom and Gomorrah is great, and because their sin is very grievous;
Jer 50:40
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40As when God overthrew Sodom and Gomorrah and the neighbor cities thereof, saith Jehovah, so shall no man dwell there, neither shall any son of man sojourn therein.
Gen 19:1-2
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1And the two angels came to Sodom at even; and Lot sat in the gate of Sodom: and Lot saw them, and rose up to meet them; and he bowed himself with his face to the earth;
2and he said, Behold now, my lords, turn aside, I pray you, into your servant's house, and tarry all night, and wash your feet, and ye shall rise up early, and go on your way. And they said, Nay; but we will abide in the street all night.
1 Kgs 14:24
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24and there were also sodomites in the land: they did according to all the abominations of the nations which Jehovah drove out before the children of Israel.
Isa 1:10
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10Hear the word of Jehovah, ye rulers of Sodom; give ear unto the law of our God, ye people of Gomorrah.
Jude 1:7
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7Even as Sodom and Gomorrah, and the cities about them, having in like {G5125} manner with these given themselves over to fornication and gone after strange flesh, are set forth as an example, suffering the punishment of eternal fire.
Gen 19:15
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15And when the morning arose, then the angels hastened Lot, saying, Arise, take thy wife, and thy two daughters that are here, lest thou be consumed in the iniquity of the city.
Isa 34:9
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9And the streams of [Edom] shall be turned into pitch, and the dust thereof into brimstone, and the land thereof shall become burning pitch.
Jer 49:18
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18As in the overthrow of Sodom and Gomorrah and the neighbor cities thereof, saith Jehovah, no man shall dwell there, neither shall any son of man sojourn therein.
Gen 19:4
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4But before they lay down, the men of the city, [even] the men of Sodom, compassed the house round, both young and old, all the people from every quarter;