CHODORLAHOMOR (Hebr. Kēdhorlā'ōmer). - King of Elam, who held Palestine in subjection for twelve years, until it rebelled against him. He then organized an expedition against it with three kings who were his vassals
(v. AMRAFEL). Having reached the region of the Dead Sea and defeated various peoples, he was attacked in the valley of Šiddīm by the five kings of the Pentapolis, whom he overcame. But, on the way back, after a swift pursuit as far as Lais (Dan), he was routed by Abraham in a surprise attack and barely saved himself by flight, leaving abundant booty in the hands of the enemy (Gen. 14, 1-17).
The name of C. (like those of the others in the same passage) is not a product of imagination, but is demonstrably of genuine Elamite formation. The first part (= “servant”) is found in the names of the kings Kudur-Nahhundi and Kudur-Mabug; the second part is the name of the Elamite goddess Lagamar, thus yielding “servant of Lagamar.” At the end of the third millennium B.C., the Elamites ruled at Larsa (= 'Ellāsār of Gen. 14, 1?) in Babylonia, and Babylonia, HAMMURABI (HAMMURAPI) (v.) was their vassal.