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Gomorrah or Gomorrha , in the Bible, city, destroyed with Sodom . Some have speculated that the ruins southeast of the Dead Sea at Numeira, discovered in 1973, may be those of the city.

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Gomorrah One of the five cities of the Plain, or Circle of the Jordan, which was destroyed by fire (Gen. 19: 24), probably some sort of natural cataclysm.

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Gomorrah a town in ancient Palestine, probably south of the Dead Sea. According to Genesis 19:24, it was destroyed by fire from heaven, along with Sodom, for the wickedness of its inhabitants.

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