The word, occurring in Wisdom, x, 6, designates the region where stood the five cities (pente, polis) — Sodom, Gomorrha, Segor (A. V., Zoar), Adama, Seboim — ...

Sodom, a city of Pentapolis (Wisdom 10:6; Genesis 14:2): Sodom, Gomorrha, Adama, Seboim, and Bala — later called Segor (Genesis 19:22). They were situated ...

The kings of the Pentapolis were defeated, their cities pillaged, and among those carried away by the victorious kings was Lot, who lost all his possessions ( ...

A titular see in Libyan Pentapolis. Teuchira (Teucheira) neuter plural, was a city on the coast of Cyrenaica, 200 stadia west of Ptolemais. It was ...

It is the ancient Bala or Segor, one of the five cities of the Pentapolis (Genesis 14:2, 8), which escaped the thunder and lightning for having sheltered ...

The Lombard promised to give up the cities of the exarchate and of the Pentapolis, which had been last conquered, to make no further attacks upon or to evacuate ...

What charges have they to allege against the whole of Egypt and Libya and Pentapolis ? For they have begun no longer to lay their plots against individuals, in ...

... Pentapolis, and Lybia. This synod is being formed. Church-membership numbers about 80,000 persons, made up mostly of strangers from Syria and Greece, among ...

Basil and others call him a Libyan from Pentapolis, but this seems to rest on the fact that Pentapolis was found to be full of Sabellianism by Dionysius of ...

... Pentapolis, and Lybia, and every nation under heaven, the holy and great synod, the bishops assembled at Nicea, wish health in the Lord . Forasmuch as the ...