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Meaning: earthy; red; bloody · 5 cross references · Modern-day map available
Admah was one of the cities of the plain associated with Sodom and Gomorrah. It is important because it appears in the traditions of destruction and later becomes a prophetic image of judgment narrowly restrained by divine compassion. First appears in Gen 10:19.1
AI summary: Admah is remembered not for a long independent history but for its place among the doomed cities of the plain. In Genesis and Deuteronomy it belongs to the stock memory of catastrophic judgment, standing alongside Sodom and Gomorrah as an example of utter overthrow. Yet Hosea's reference gives the name added depth by invoking Admah in the context of God's reluctance to give his people over completely. The cross references present Admah as both a warning from the past and a rhetorical image of judgment held in tension with mercy.1
Earth, one of the five cities of the vale of Siddim (Gen. 10:19). It was destroyed along with Sodom and Gomorrah (19:24; Deut. 29:23). It is supposed by some to be the same as the Adam of Josh. 3:16, the name of which still lingers in Damieh, the ford of Jordan. (See ZEBOIM.) 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.