Unnumbered source etymology
Original entry ↗One of the Pentapolis, the five ancient cities in the Jordan valley. · A Moravian ghost town in Nunatsiavut, Newfoundland and Labrador. · An unincorporated community in Sussex County, Delaware, United States. · An unincorporated community in Pike County and Dubois County, Indiana, United States.
From Biblical Hebrew צֹעַר (tso`ar, “insignificance, smallness”). Mentioned in the Bible in Genesis 19:22, 23, and 30 as the place where Lot fled with his wife and two daughters to escape death, when Yahweh destroyed the cities of Sodom and Gomorrah. Was present in Old English as Segor.
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