Genesis 14:2

Verse

RBT Translation:

they have made a war אֶת-Builder-of-Ruined-one⁵¹¹ king of Sodom, and אֶת-Iniquitous⁵¹² king of Gomorrah, Altered Father⁵¹³ king of Red-one,⁵¹⁴ and Name-Wing⁵¹⁵ king of Gazelles,⁵¹⁶ and the king of Swallowed⁵¹⁷ (herself⁵¹⁸ is Little).

LITV Translation:
They made war with Bera king of Sodom, and with Birsha king of Gomorrah, Shinab king of Admah, and Shemeber king of Zeboiim, and the king of Bela, which is Zoar.

ESV Translation:
these kings made war with Bera king of Sodom, Birsha king of Gomorrah, Shinab king of Admah, Shemeber king of Zeboiim, and the king of Bela (that is, Zoar).

Brenton Septuagint Translation:
made war with Bera king of Sodom, and with Birsha king of Gomorrah, and with Shinab, king of Admah, and with Shemeber king of Zeboiim and the king of Bela, this is Zoar.

Footnotes

511

Strong’s #1298: Bera = ‘builder of ruined-one

512

Strong’s #1306: Birsha = ‘with iniquity’

513

Shinab. Strong’s #8134, Probably from shana and ‘ab; a father has changed, altered, turned; a Canaanite (Humbled)

514

Strong’s #126: Admah = ‘red earth’ or adamah (#127) ground.

515

Strong’s #8038: Shemeber = ‘lofty flight’. Apparently from shem and ‘eber; name of pinion, i.e. Illustrious

516

Strong’s #6636: Zeboim or Zeboiim = ‘gazelles’

517

Bela. From Strong’s #1105, bela. Devoured, swallowed, a thing swallowed. Perhaps a reference to another Bel:

“And I have seen after Bel in Babylon, And I have brought forth that which he swallowed—from his mouth, And flow no more toward him do nations, Also the wall of Babylon hath fallen.” Jer. 51:44 YLT.

Bel is the contraction of the masculine Ba’al, the great sea monster that swallows Jonah for three days. Bela is feminine, the thing swallowed.

“For just as Jonah became a sign to the Ninevites, so will the Builder of Man be to this revolution.” Luke 11:30 literal

518

This pronoun הִיא for Zoar/Little changes in verse 8 to the mystery masculine pronoun.