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English Dictionary: Sodom by the DICT Development Group
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From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
sodom
n
  1. any location known for vice and corruption
  2. (Old Testament) an ancient city near the Dead Sea that (along with Gomorrah) was destroyed by God for the wickedness of its inhabitants
From Easton's 1897 Bible Dictionary [easton]:
   Sodom
      burning; the walled, a city in the vale of Siddim (Gen. 13:10;
      14:1-16). The wickedness of its inhabitants brought down upon it
      fire from heaven, by which it was destroyed (18:16-33; 19:1-29;
      Deut. 23:17). This city and its awful destruction are frequently
      alluded to in Scripture (Deut. 29:23; 32:32; Isa. 1:9, 10; 3:9;
      13:19; Jer. 23:14; Ezek. 16:46-56; Zeph. 2:9; Matt. 10:15; Rom.
      9:29; 2 Pet. 2:6, etc.). No trace of it or of the other cities
      of the plain has been discovered, so complete was their
      destruction. Just opposite the site of Zoar, on the south-west
      coast of the Dead Sea, is a range of low hills, forming a mass
      of mineral salt called Jebel Usdum, "the hill of Sodom." It has
      been concluded, from this and from other considerations, that
      the cities of the plain stood at the southern end of the Dead
      Sea. Others, however, with much greater probability, contend
      that they stood at the northern end of the sea. [in 1897].
     

From Hitchcock's Bible Names Dictionary (late 1800's) [hitchcock]:
   Sodom, their secret; their cement
  
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