Gomorrah

What is known

• Gomorrah is consistently paired with Sodom throughout Scripture as one of the 'cities of the plain' destroyed for their wickedness (Genesis 19)
• No site has been definitively confirmed as Gomorrah; proposed early Bronze Age candidates south of the Dead Sea (such as Numeira, near Bab edh-Dhra) show real destruction-by-fire layers, but linking any specific tell to the biblical name remains speculative
• The map pin follows the southern Dead Sea theory (Numeira), matching the paired Sodom entry at nearby Bab edh-Dhra so both pins reflect a single hypothesis; under the competing northern theory — which places Sodom at Tall el-Hammam in the Jordan Valley — Gomorrah's counterpart candidates would be nearby sites such as Tall Nimrin or Tall Kafrayn
• Like Sodom, Gomorrah's destruction became a fixed prophetic and New Testament metaphor for catastrophic divine judgment on sin
• The pairing 'Sodom and Gomorrah' appears more than 20 times across the Old and New Testaments, making it one of the Bible's most repeated place-name formulas

History

Coordinates

31.1833° N, 35.5333° E

Scripture references

• Genesis 10:19 — Gomorrah listed as a Canaanite border city
• Genesis 14:2 — King of Gomorrah among the five kings
• Genesis 18:20 — Outcry against Sodom and Gomorrah
• Genesis 19:24-25 — The LORD rains sulfur and fire on Sodom and Gomorrah
• Deuteronomy 32:32 — Vine of Sodom, fields of Gomorrah
• Isaiah 13:19 — Babylon compared to Sodom and Gomorrah's overthrow
• Amos 4:11 — God's judgment compared to the overthrow of Sodom and Gomorrah

On a modern map

Gomorrah today

Further reading

• Sodom and Gomorrah - Wikipedia