Bible Location
Meaning: deer; goats · 5 cross references · Modern-day map available
Zeboiim was one of the cities of the plain associated with Sodom, Gomorrah, Admah, and the catastrophe of judgment. It is important because it appears in the same memory-cluster of destruction that later prophets reuse to speak about mercy and warning. First appears in Gen 10:19.1
AI summary: Zeboiim has a short biblical footprint but a strong theological one. In Genesis and Deuteronomy it belongs to the circle of cities destroyed in the great overthrow of the plain, making it part of one of Scripture's defining images of judgment. Hosea's use of the name alongside Admah shows that these vanished cities continued to function as moral memory long after their destruction. The cross references present Zeboiim as a city whose significance comes from catastrophic loss and its later reuse in prophetic appeal.1
One of the “five cities of the plain” of Sodom, generally coupled with Admah (Gen. 10:19; 14:2; Deut. 29:23; Hos. 11:8). It had a king of its own (Shemeber), and was therefore a place of some importance. It was destroyed along with the other cities of the plain. 3
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Alistair de Blacquiere-Clarkson, “ai-BIBLE Bible Names JSON Factsheet Aggregating Material from Smith’s Bible Dictionary & Hitcocks’s New and Complete Analysis of the Bible.” ai-BIBLE electronic edition, version 1.0.
M.G.Easton, Illustrated Bible Dictionary, ai-BIBLE electronic edition, version 1.0.
Robert Rouse, “Theographic Bible Information,” Theographic-Bible-Metadata, 2020, https://github.com/robertrouse/theographic-bible-metadata.