Genesis 14:2
Made war with Bera, king of Sodom, and with Birsha, king of Gomorrah, Shinab, king of Admah, and Shemeber, king of Zeboim, and the king of Bela, this is Zoar.
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, which is Zoar.
made war with Bera king of Sodom, and with Birsha king of Gomorrah, and with Shinab, king of Admah, and with Shemeber king of Zeboiim and the king of Bela, this is Zoar.
Footnotes
| 511 | Genesis 14:2 Strong’s #1298: Bera = ‘builder of ruined-one |
| 512 | Genesis 14:2 Strong’s #1306: Birsha = ‘with iniquity’ |
| 513 | Genesis 14:2 Shinab. Strong’s #8134, Probably from shana and ‘ab; a father has changed, altered, turned; a Canaanite (Humbled) |
| 514 | Genesis 14:2 Strong’s #126: Admah = ‘red earth’ or adamah (#127) ground. |
| 515 | Genesis 14:2 Strong’s #8038: Shemeber = ‘lofty flight’. Apparently from shem and ‘eber; name of pinion, i.e. Illustrious |
| 516 | Genesis 14:2 Strong’s #6636: Zeboim or Zeboiim = ‘gazelles’ |
| 517 | Genesis 14:2 Bela. From Strong’s #1105, bela. Devoured, swallowed, a thing swallowed. Perhaps a reference to another Bel: “And I have seen after Bel in Babylon, And I have brought forth that which he swallowed—from his mouth, And flow no more toward him do nations, Also the wall of Babylon hath fallen.” Jer. 51:44 YLT. Bel is the contraction of the masculine Ba’al, the great sea monster that swallows Jonah for three days. Bela is feminine, the thing swallowed. “For just as Jonah became a sign to the Ninevites, so will the Builder of Man be to this revolution.” Luke 11:30 literal |
| 518 | Genesis 14:2 This pronoun הִיא for Zoar/Little changes in verse 8 to the mystery masculine pronoun. |