Enciclopedia Cattolica

Adamah (Hebrew 'Adamah)

ADAMA (EBR. 'ADMDH)

Volume I · p. 184 · 1948

English translation · Testo originale italiano

Machine translation of the 1948–1954 Italian original. The original text is authoritative.

ADAMA (Heb. ‘Admdh). – City of the Pentapolis (v.), mentioned alongside Seboim, on the border of Canaan (Gen. 10:19). Its king Sennaab, in coalition with the other kings of the Pentapolis, was defeated in the valley of Siddim by Codorlahomor, king of Elam, aided by three other kings (Gen. 14:1–9). A. was destroyed, together with the other guilty cities, by the cataclysm that struck Sodom and Gomorrah, within whose “circle” it lay (Gen. 19:24; cf. Deut. 29:23; Hos. 11:8).

Angelo Penna

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“ADAMA (EBR. 'ADMDH).” Enciclopedia Cattolica, vol. I (1948), p. 184. Azione Romana digital edition, https://azioneromana.com/article/adama-ebr-admdh.