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Headword: *shgw/r
Adler number: sigma,294
Translated headword: Segor, Zoar
Vetting Status: high
Translation:
Name of a city.[1]
In it Lot found refuge,[2] fleeing the burning of the Sodomites.[3]
Greek Original:
*shgw/r: o)/noma po/lews. e)n h(=| diesw/qh *lw/t, feu/gwn to\n tw=n *sodomitw=n e)mprhsmo/n.
Notes:
[1] The spelling is that found in the Septuagint. The city is commonly written in English, according to the Hebrew spelling צער, as Zoar, the Greek gamma representing the Hebrew letter ע 'ayin (a voiced pharyngal fricative).
[2] cf. Genesis 19:23. (For Lot see lambda 739.)
[3] Full account in Genesis 19:1-24.
Keywords: definition; dialects, grammar, and etymology; ethics; geography; religion
Translated by: James Aitken on 10 November 1999@08:30:01.
Vetted by:
Catharine Roth (cosmetics, keywords) on 3 September 2002@12:41:47.
David Whitehead (added note; cosmetics) on 4 September 2002@03:09:35.
Raphael Finkel (Added Hebrew.) on 11 August 2004@17:10:11.
David Whitehead (more keywords; cosmetics) on 26 July 2011@05:13:45.
Catharine Roth (deleted link) on 20 December 2013@00:39:37.
David Whitehead (coding) on 25 May 2016@10:25:07.

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