onomastics - What is the meaning of Zoar (Genesis 19:22)? - Biblical . . . The name Zoar in this passage is spelled צֽוֹעַר but elsewhere (Genesis 13:10, Genesis 14:2, etc ) is spelled צֹעַר I mention the spelling variation, because it is easier to see the connection to the root verb, צָעַר (ṣāʿar), which means "to be, or grow, insignificant"
Why did Lot run from Zoar? - Biblical Hermeneutics Stack Exchange Why did Lot subsequently leave the small city of Zoar and end up living in a cave in the mountains? Because he was afraid The English Standard Version Study Bible makes this comment: Although Lot had asked to escape to Zoar (v 20, 22), the destruction of the valley fills him with such fear that he leaves the city and moves away to live in the
Is Zoar like Sodom? - Biblical Hermeneutics Stack Exchange Therefore, the name of the city was called Zoar Genesis 19:20-22 (LEB) Note the parallel with Abraham pleading for Sodom But by tradition Zoar was destroyed along with the other four cities, supposedly because Lot, after begging God to spare it, didn't trust God's promise to do so and fled into the caves Just as how God promised to spare
genesis - If Lot went to Zoar, why did his daughters think no one was . . . V30 - "Lot and his two daughters left Zoar and settled in the mountains where they lived in a cave " Verse 31 is the verse in question; so here is my literal translation: And said the firstborn to the younger: "Our father [is] old; and man none on in the land to come in to us as the custom of all the land "
genesis - Why was Lot afraid and ran to hill places? - Biblical . . . Genesis 19:23 By the time Lot reached Zoar, the sun had risen over the land 24Then the Lord rained down burning sulfur on Sodom and Gomorrah—from the Lord out of the heavens 25Thus he overthrew those cities and the entire plain, destroying all those living in the cities—and also the vegetation in the land 26But Lot’s wife looked back, and she became a pillar of salt
genesis - Why were the daughters of Lot reluctant to search for . . . 30 Now Lot went up out of Zoar and settled in the hills with his two daughters, for he was afraid to stay in Zoar; so he lived in a cave with his two daughters 31 And the firstborn said to the younger, “Our father is old, and there is not a man on earth to come in to us after the manner of all the world
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genesis - Biblical Hermeneutics Stack Exchange 10 And Lot lifted up his eyes, and beheld all the plain of Jordan, that it was well watered every where, before the LORD destroyed Sodom and Gomorrah, even as the garden of the LORD, like the land of Egypt, as thou comest unto Zoar 11 Then Lot chose him all the plain of Jordan; and Lot journeyed east: and they separated themselves the one from
What were the Cities of the Plain? (Genesis 13:12, 19:29) The Book of Genesis uses the term quot;cities of the plain quot; on two occasions: one when it describes Lot's journey after he parted from Abraham, and again in describing the destruction of Sodo