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Genesis 13:10

וַ יִּשָּׂא לֹוט אֶת עֵינָיו וַ יַּרְא אֶת כָּל כִּכַּר הַ יַּרְדֵּן כִּי כֻלָּהּ מַשְׁקֶה לִ פְנֵי שַׁחֵת יְהוָה אֶת סְדֹם וְ אֶת עֲמֹרָה כְּ גַן יְהוָה כְּ אֶרֶץ מִצְרַיִם בֹּאֲכָה צֹעַר
And Lot is lifting up his eyes, and is seeing אֶת-the whole of a round495 of the Descender496 for the whole of her is a drink-giver497 to the faces of Yahweh laying-waste אֶת-Sodom and אֶת-Gomorrah,498 like the enclosure of Yahweh, like the earth of Dual-Siege, as you come in Little.
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Sodom is from an unused root meaning to scorch, burnt district (#5467). Gomorrah means heap, from the root amar; properly, apparently to heap; figuratively, to chastise (as if piling blows);