Admah

American Tract Society Bible Dictionary

One of the four cities in the plain of Siddim, destroyed by fire from heaven and covered by the Dead Sea, Genesis 14:2  ; 19:24,25  ; Hosea 11:8 .

Easton's Bible Dictionary

Genesis 10:19 Deuteronomy 29:23 Joshua 3:16 <a> ZEBOIM </a>

Fausset's Bible Dictionary

One of the cities of the plain, having its own king, linked with Zeboim ( Genesis 10:19  ; Genesis 14:2  ; Genesis 14:8  ; Deuteronomy 29:23  ; Hosea 11:8 ). Destroyed along with Sodom and Gomorrah ( Genesis 19:24 ).

Holman Bible Dictionary

Genesis 10:19 Genesis 14:1 Genesis 19:29 Deuteronomy 29:23 Hosea 11:8

Hastings' Dictionary of the Bible

ADMAH ( Genesis 10:19  ; Genesis 14:2  ; Genesis 14:8 , Deuteronomy 29:23 , Hosea 11:8 ). One of the cities of the Ciccar or ‘Round.’ It is not noticed as overthrown in the account of the destruction of Sodom and Gomorrah ( Genesis 19:1-38 ), but is included in their catastrophe in the two later passages.

Morrish Bible Dictionary

One of the cities in the plains of Jordan destroyed with Sodom and. Gomorrah. Deuteronomy 29:23 . It was subject to Chedorlaomer, king of Elam, but its king revolted. In the war that followed all were carried away including Lot, but Abraham pursued and recovered all. Genesis 10:19  ; Genesis 14:8 . Jehovah, when speaking of His fierce anger against Ephraim said, "How shall I make thee as Admah?" Hosea 11:8 .

People's Dictionary of the Bible

Admah ( ăd'mah ), earth or fortress, one of the five cities in the vale of Siddim, Genesis 10:19  ; Genesis 14:2 , destroyed with Sodom.

Smith's Bible Dictionary

Ad'mah. (earthy, fortress). One of the "cities of the plain," always coupled with Zeboim. Genesis 10:19  ; Genesis 14:2  ; Genesis 14:8  ; Genesis 29:23  ; Hosea 11:8 .

International Standard Bible Encyclopedia

<translit> ad´ma </translit> ( אדמה , <translit> 'adhmāh </translit> ): From a root signifying red; one of the Cities of the Plain (Ciccar) ( Genesis 10:19  ; Genesis 14:2 , Genesis 14:8  ; Deuteronomy 29:23  ; Hosea 11:8 ) upon which Abraham and Lot looked from the heights of Bethel; destroyed with Sodom and Gomorrah. Conder tentatively identifies it with the City of Adam referred to in Joshua 3:16 , and thinks that perhaps the name may be preserved in that of Damieh Ford, near the mouth of the river Jabbok; but that point could not have been in view from Bethel. See <links> VALE OF SIDDIM </links> .

Kitto's Popular Cyclopedia of Biblial Literature

Ad´mah, one of the cities in the vale of Siddim ( Genesis 10:19 ), which had a king of its own ( Genesis 14:2 ). It was destroyed along with Sodom and Gomorrah ( Genesis 19:24  ; Hosea 11:8 ).

Cyclopedia of Biblical, Theological and Ecclesiastical Literature

(Heb. Admah", אִדְמָה , properly earth; Sept. Ἀδαμά , but Ἀδάμα in Hosea), one of the five cities in the vale of Siddim ( Genesis 10:19 ), which had a king of its own ( Genesis 14:2  ; Genesis 14:8 ). It was destroyed along with Sodom and Gomorrah ( Genesis 19:24  ; Deuteronomy 29:23  ; Hosea 11:8 ). Near the south-west end of the Dead Sea, M. De Saulcy passed through a place marked with the effects of volcanic agency, called et Thoemah, where his guides assured him were ruins of a city anciently overthrown by the Almighty (Narrative, 1, 420); but its identification with Admah needs corroboration. Reland (Paloest. p. 545) is inclined to infer, from the constant order of the names, that it was situated between Gomorrah and Zeboim; but even these sites are so uncertain that we can only conjecture the locality of Admah somewhere near the middle of the southern end of the Dead Sea. (See <a> SODOM </a> ).