Sedom
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- Type: Locality
- Description: cities mentioned in the Hebrew Bible, the New Testament and the Qur’an
- Also known as: “Rabat Ashlag Dromit”, “Sdom”, and “Sodom”
- Historically known as: “Sodom and Gomorrah”
Places of Interest
Highlights include Mezad Zohar.
Mezad Zohar
Ruins
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Mezad Zohar is a ruins, which is situated 3½ km northwest of Sedom.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Neve Zohar and Ein Bokek.
Neve Zohar
Village
Neve Zohar is a community settlement in southern Israel. Located on the junction of Highway 31 and Highway 90, on the shores of the Dead Sea and 23 km from Arad by road, it falls under the jurisdiction of Tamar Regional Council. Neve Zohar is situated 2½ km northwest of Sedom.
Ein Bokek
Village
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Ein Bokek is an Israeli seaside resort on the Dead Sea, near Neve Zohar. It is under the jurisdiction of the Tamar Regional Council in the Southern District. Ein Bokek is situated 8 km north of Sedom.
Sedom
- Categories: biblical place and Bible story
- Location: Southern District, Israel, Middle East, Asia
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Afrikaans to Yiddish—“Sedom” goes by many names.
- Afrikaans: “Sodom en Gomorra”
- Arabic: “سدوم و عمورة”
- Arabic: “سدوم وعمورة”
- Armenian: “Սոդոմ և Գոմոր”
- Arpitan: “Sodoma et Gomorra”
- Azerbaijani: “Sodom və Qomorra”
- Basque: “Gomorra”
- Basque: “Sodoma eta Gomorra”
- Basque: “Sodoma”
- Belarusian: “Садом і Гамора”
- Bengali: “সদোম ও গোমোরাহ”
- Breton: “Gomorra”
- Breton: “Sodom ha Gomorra”
- Breton: “Sodom”
- Bulgarian: “Содом и Гомор”
- Bulgarian: “Содом и Гомора”
- Burmese: “သောဒုံနှင့် ဂေါမောရ”
- Catalan: “Gomorra”
- Catalan: “Sodoma i Gomorra”
- Catalan: “Sòdoma i Gomorra”
- Catalan: “Sodoma”
- Central Bikol: “Sodoma asin Gomorra”
- Central Kurdish: “سەدۆم و عەمۆرا”
- Chinese: “所多玛”
- Chinese: “所多玛与蛾摩拉”
- Chinese: “所多玛和蛾摩拉”
- Chinese: “所多瑪”
- Chinese: “所多瑪和蛾摩拉”
- Chinese: “所多瑪與蛾摩拉”
- Chinese: “索多玛”
- Chinese: “索多玛与蛾摩拉”
- Chinese: “索多玛和蛾摩拉”
- Chinese: “索多瑪”
- Chinese: “索多瑪和蛾摩拉”
- Chinese: “索多瑪與蛾摩拉”
- Chinese: “蛾摩拉”
- Croatian: “Sodoma i Gomora”
- Czech: “Sodoma a Gomora”
- Czech: “Sodoma Gomora”
- Danish: “Gomorra”
- Danish: “Sodoma og gomora”
- Danish: “Sodoma og Gomorra”
- Danish: “Sodoma”
- Dimli (individual language): “Sodom u Gomora”
- Dutch: “Sodom en Gomorra”
- Dutch: “Sodom”
- Egyptian Arabic: “سدوم وعموره”
- Esperanto: “Gomoro”
- Esperanto: “Sodomo kaj Gomoro”
- Esperanto: “Sodomo”
- Estonian: “Soodom ja Gomorra”
- Finnish: “Gomorra”
- Finnish: “Sodoma ja Gomorra”
- Finnish: “Sodoma”
- French: “Sodome et Gomorrhe”
- Galician: “Sodoma”
- Georgian: “სოდომი და გომორი”
- Georgian: “სოდომისა და გომორის დაქცევა”
- German: “Gomorra und Sodom”
- German: “Gomorra”
- German: “Gomorrah”
- German: “Gomorrha und Sodom”
- German: “Sdom”
- German: “Sodom und Gomorra”
- German: “Sodom und Gomorrha”
- German: “Sodom”
- Greek: “Σόδομα και Γόμορρα”
- Hebrew: “הפיכת סדום ועמורה”
- Hebrew: “חורבן סדום ועמורה”
- Hebrew: “מהפיכת סדום ועמורה”
- Hebrew: “מהפכת סדום ועמורה”
- Hebrew: “סדום ועמורה”
- Hebrew: “סדום”
- Hebrew: “עמורה”
- Hungarian: “Szodoma és Gomora”
- Icelandic: “Sódóma og Gómorra”
- Indonesian: “Amora”
- Indonesian: “Gomora”
- Indonesian: “Sadum dan Gomorrah”
- Indonesian: “Sodom and Gomorrah”
- Indonesian: “Sodom dan Amora”
- Indonesian: “Sodom dan Gomora”
- Indonesian: “Sodom”
- Italian: “Sodoma e Gomorra”
- Japanese: “ソドムとゴモラ”
- Javanese: “Sodom lan Gomora”
- Korean: “소돔과 고모라”
- Latvian: “Sodoma un Gomora”
- Lithuanian: “Sodoma ir Gomora”
- Lombard: “Sodoma e Gomorra”
- Malagasy: “Sôdôma sy Gômôra”
- Malay: “Sodom dan Gomorrah”
- Malayalam: “Sodom and Gomorrah”
- Nepali: “सोदोम र गोमोर्राह”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Gomorra”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Sodoma og Gomorra”
- Norwegian: “Sodoma og Gomorra”
- Occitan (post 1500): “Sodòma e Gomòrra”
- Persian: “سدوم و عموره”
- Persian: “سدوم”
- Polish: “Gomora”
- Polish: “Sodoma i Gomora”
- Polish: “Sodoma”
- Portuguese: “Sodoma e Gomorra”
- Portuguese: “Sodoma”
- Pushto: “سدوم او عموره”
- Romanian: “Sodoma şi Gomora”
- Romanian: “Sodoma și Gomora”
- Russian: “Садом и Гоммора”
- Russian: “Содом и Гоморра”
- Serbian: “Sodoma i Gomora”
- Serbian: “Содом и Гомор”
- Serbian: “Содома и Гомора”
- Serbian: “Содома”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Sodoma i Gomora”
- Silesian: “Sodůma a Gůmora”
- Sinhala: “සොදොම් හා ගොමෝරා”
- Slovak: “Sodoma a Gomora”
- Slovenian: “Sodoma in Gomora”
- Spanish: “Sodoma y Gomorra”
- Spanish: “Sodomita”
- Swahili: “Sodoma”
- Swedish: “Sodom och Gomorra”
- Tamil: “சொதோம் கொமோரா”
- Thai: “เมืองโสโดมและโกโมราห์”
- Thai: “โสโดมและโกโมราห์”
- Turkish: “Sodom kavmi”
- Turkish: “Sodom ve Gomora”
- Ukrainian: “Содом і Гоморра”
- Urdu: “سدوم وعمورہ”
- Urdu: “مسدومیت”
- Waray (Philippines): “Sodoma ngan Gomorra”
- Welsh: “Sodom a Gomorra”
- Western Frisian: “Sodom en Gomorra”
- Yiddish: “מהפיכת סדום ועמורה”
- Yiddish: “מהפכת סדום ועמורה”
- Yiddish: “סדום און עמורה”
- Yiddish: “סדום ועמורה”
- Yiddish: “סדום”
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