Genesis 14:2

King James Version with Strong's Numbers

That these 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, which is Zoar.

📖 Grammatical Analysis

Original Text

עָשׂ֣וּ מִלְחָמָ֗ה אֶת־בֶּ֙רַע֙ מֶ֣לֶךְ סְדֹ֔ם וְאֶת־בִּרְשַׁ֖ע מֶ֣לֶךְ עֲמֹרָ֑ה שִׁנְאָ֣ב ׀ מֶ֣לֶךְ אַדְמָ֗ה וְשֶׁמְאֵ֙בֶר֙ מֶ֣לֶךְ צְבוֹיִ֔ים וּמֶ֥לֶךְ בֶּ֖לַע הִיא־צֹֽעַר׃

Transliteration

ʿāśû milḥāmāh ʾeṯ-beraʿ melek səḏōm wə-ʾeṯ-biršaʿ melek ʿămōrāh šinʾāḇ melek ʾaḏmāh wə-šemʾēḇer melek ṣəḇôyîm û-melek belaʿ hîʾ-ṣōʿar

Grammar Details

• *ʿāśû*: perfect, 3rd plural - they made/did
• *milḥāmāh*: common noun, feminine singular - war/battle
• *ʾeṯ*: direct object marker
• *beraʿ*: proper noun, king's name
• *melek*: construct state noun, masculine singular - king of
• *səḏōm*: proper noun, place name (Sodom)
• *wə-ʾeṯ*: conjunction + direct object marker
• *biršaʿ*: proper noun, king's name
• *ʿămōrāh*: proper noun, place name (Gomorrah)
• *šinʾāḇ*: proper noun, king's name
• *ʾaḏmāh*: proper noun, place name (Admah)
• *wə-šemʾēḇer*: conjunction + proper noun, king's name
• *ṣəḇôyîm*: proper noun, place name (Zeboiim)
• *û-melek*: conjunction + construct state noun - and king of
• *belaʿ*: proper noun, place name (Bela)
• *hîʾ*: pronoun, 3rd feminine singular - it/she
• *ṣōʿar*: proper noun, place name (Zoar)

Word Meanings

• *ʿāśû milḥāmāh*: made war/waged battle/fought

Referenced Verses

• Gen 13:10 : 10 And Lot lifted up his eyes, and beheld all the plain of Jordan, that it was well watered every where, before the LORD destroyed Sodom and Gomorrah, even as the garden of the LORD, like the land of Egypt, as thou comest unto Zoar.
• Gen 10:19 : 19 And the border of the Canaanites was from Sidon, as thou comest to Gerar, unto Gaza; as thou goest, unto Sodom, and Gomorrah, and Admah, and Zeboim, even unto Lasha.
• Deut 29:23 : 23 And that the whole land thereof is brimstone, and salt, and burning, that it is not sown, nor beareth, nor any grass groweth therein, like the overthrow of Sodom, and Gomorrah, Admah, and Zeboim, which the LORD overthrew in his anger, and in his wrath:
• Deut 34:3 : 3 And the south, and the plain of the valley of Jericho, the city of palm trees, unto Zoar.
• 1 Sam 13:18 : 18 And another company turned the way to Bethhoron: and another company turned to the way of the border that looketh to the valley of Zeboim toward the wilderness.
• Neh 11:34 : 34 Hadid, Zeboim, Neballat,
• Isa 1:9-9 : 9 Except the LORD of hosts had left unto us a very small remnant, we should have been as Sodom, and we should have been like unto Gomorrah. 10 Hear the word of the LORD, ye rulers of Sodom; give ear unto the law of our God, ye people of Gomorrah.
• Isa 15:5 : 5 My heart shall cry out for Moab; his fugitives shall flee unto Zoar, an heifer of three years old: for by the mounting up of Luhith with weeping shall they go it up; for in the way of Horonaim they shall raise up a cry of destruction.
• Jer 48:34 : 34 From the cry of Heshbon even unto Elealeh, and even unto Jahaz, have they uttered their voice, from Zoar even unto Horonaim, as an heifer of three years old: for the waters also of Nimrim shall be desolate.
• Hos 11:8 : 8 How shall I give thee up, Ephraim? how shall I deliver thee, Israel? how shall I make thee as Admah? how shall I set thee as Zeboim? mine heart is turned within me, my repentings are kindled together.
• Gen 19:20-30 : 20 Behold now, this city is near to flee unto, and it is a little one: Oh, let me escape thither,( is it not a little one?) and my soul shall live. 21 And he said unto him, See, I have accepted thee concerning this thing also, that I will not overthrow this city, for the which thou hast spoken. 22 Haste thee, escape thither; for I cannot do any thing till thou be come thither. Therefore the name of the city was called Zoar. 23 The sun was risen upon the earth when Lot entered into Zoar. 24 Then the LORD rained upon Sodom and upon Gomorrah brimstone and fire from the LORD out of heaven; 25 And he overthrew those cities, and all the plain, and all the inhabitants of the cities, and that which grew upon the ground. 26 But his wife looked back from behind him, and she became a pillar of salt. 27 And Abraham gat up early in the morning to the place where he stood before the LORD: 28 And he looked toward Sodom and Gomorrah, and toward all the land of the plain, and beheld, and, lo, the smoke of the country went up as the smoke of a furnace. 29 And it came to pass, when God destroyed the cities of the plain, that God remembered Abraham, and sent Lot out of the midst of the overthrow, when he overthrew the cities in the which Lot dwelt. 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.