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Scene of biblical destruction
Answer for the clue "Scene of biblical destruction ", 8 letters:
gomorrah
Alternative clues for the word gomorrah
- City where people had sex with angels, and somehow that was bad
- Biblical sin city
- (Old Testament) an ancient city near the Dead Sea that (along with Sodom) was destroyed by God for the vice and depravity of its inhabitants
- Old Sin City by the Dead Sea
- Biblical symbol of wickedness
- Symbol of depravity
- One of a notorious pair in Genesis
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Wikipedia
Word definitions in Wikipedia
Gomorrah is a non-fiction investigative book by Roberto Saviano published in 2006 documenting Saviano's infiltration and investigation of various areas of business and daily life controlled or affected by the Italian criminal organization known as Camorra ...
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Biblical site, from Hebrew 'omer "sheaf" (of corn, etc.), probably a reference to the fertility of the region.
Usage examples of gomorrah.
Al Basrah was no better, but this had to be what Sodom and Gomorrah had been like before God torched them.
I already said, in part the Rapture was to spare those who were already Christians from the suffering, just as God spared Noah and his family before the flood,16 and just as he spared Lot and his family before the destruction of Sodom and Gomorrah.
A sound like the moaning in squadrons over Asphaltites of unforgiven ghosts of Gomorrah, ran shuddering through the air.
Reno is a cross between Disneyland and Gomorrah -- a living shrine to every obsessive-compulsive character disorder known to Homo americanus.
She worked the conversation round to Bible history and triumphantly demanded whether we knew that Sodom and Gomorrah are towns to-day, and that a street-car line is contemplated to them from some place or other&mdash.
When he describes his past, Ellendale will sound like Sodom and Gomorrah.
What destroyed Sodom and Gomorrah was not some normal geological process.
And thus would he inveagle my belief to think the combustion of Sodom might be natural, and that there was an Asphaltick and Bituminous nature in that Lake before the Fire of Gomorrah.
This country that God intended to be our land of milk and honey, but which has been turned instead into Sodom and Gomorrah.
I couldnt tell whether it sounded more like Sodom and Gomorrah or Camelot-all the adjectives he used.
Sodom and Gomorrah, and all the sins which are committed and can be committed against the commandments of God are not reserved cases.