Sodomite
Bible Usage:
- Bible Reference: Deuteronomy 23:17
Dictionaries:
- Included in Eastons: No
- Included in Hitchcocks: No
- Included in Naves: No
- Included in Smiths: No
- Included in Websters: Yes
- Included in Strongs: Yes
- Included in Thayers: No
- Included in BDB: Yes
Strongs Concordance:
- H6945 Used 1 time
SOD'OMITE, noun
1. An inhabitant of Sodom.
2. One guilty of sodomy.
Those who imitated the licentious wickedness of Sodom (Deuteronomy 23:17; 1 Kings 14:24; Romans 1:26, 27). Asa destroyed them "out of the land" (1 Kings 15:12), as did also his son Jehoshaphat (22:46).
Inhabitants of Sodom.
Wickedness of
Genesis 19:4-14
Destroyed by fire as a judgment
Genesis 19:24-25
To be judged according to opportunity
Matthew 11:24; Luke 10:12
A proverbial term of reproach applied to those who practice sodomy
Deuteronomy 23:17; 1 Kings 14:24; 1 Kings 15:12; 1 Kings 22:46; 2 Kings 23:7; Job 36:14
The word harlot is the translation of a Hebrew feminine form of the word translated elsewhere sodomite
Genesis 38:21-22; Deuteronomy 23:17; Hosea 4:14
Sodomy
This word does not denote the inhabitants of Sodom; but it is employed in the Authorized Version of the Old Testament for those who practiced as a religious rite the abominable and unnatural vice from which the inhabitants of Sodom and Gomorrah have derived their lasting infamy.