earthy; red; bloody
Hitchcock's Bible Names Dictionary
ADMAH (Gen_10:19; Gen_14:2; Gen_14:8, Deu_29:23, Hos_11:8).One of the cities of the Ciccar or Round. It is not noticed as overthrown in the account of the destruction of Sodom and Gomorrah (Gen_19:1-38), but is included in their catastrophe in the two later passages.
Hastings' Dictionary of the Bible
Edited by James Hastings, D.D. Published in 1909
One of the cities of the plain, having its own king, linked with Zeboim (Gen_10:19; Gen_14:2; Gen_14:8; Deu_29:23; Hos_11:8). Destroyed along with Sodom and Gomorrah (Gen_19:24).
Fausset's Bible Dictionary
By Andrew Robert Fausset, co-Author of Jamieson, Fausset and Brown's 1888.
Ad'mah. (earthy, fortress). One of the "cities of the plain," always coupled with Zeboim. Gen_10:19; Gen_14:2; Gen_14:8; Gen_29:23; Hos_11:8.
Smith's Bible Dictionary
By Dr. William Smith.Published in 1863
ad?ma (אדמה, 'adhmāh): From a root signifying red; one of the Cities of the Plain (Ciccar) (Gen_10:19; Gen_14:2, Gen_14:8; Deu_29:23; Hos_11:8) upon which Abraham and Lot looked from the heights of Bethel; destroyed with Sodom and Gomorrah. Conder tentatively identifies it with the City of Adam referred to in Jos_3:16, and thinks that perhaps the name may be preserved in that of Damieh Ford, near the mouth of the river Jabbok; but that point could not have been in view from Bethel. See VALE OF SIDDIM.
International Standard Bible Encyclopedia
PRINTER 1915.
Ad?mah, one of the cities in the vale of Siddim (Gen_10:19), which had a king of its own (Gen_14:2). It was destroyed along with Sodom and Gomorrah (Gen_19:24; Hos_11:8).
The Popular Cyclopedia of Biblical Literature
by John Kitto.
Admah
(Heb. Admah, אִדְמָה, properly earth; Sept. Α᾿δαμά, but Α᾿δάμα in Hosea), one of the five cities in the vale of Siddim (Gen_10:19), which had a king of its own (Gen_14:2; Gen_14:8). It was destroyed along with Sodom and Gomorrah (Gen_19:24; Deu_29:23; Hos_11:8). Near the south-west end of the Dead Sea, M. De Saulcy passed through a place marked with the effects of volcanic agency, called et Thoemah, where his guides assured him were ruins of a city anciently overthrown by the Almighty (Narrative, 1, 420); but its identification with Admah needs corroboration. Reland (Paloest. p. 545) is inclined to infer, from the constant order of the names, that it was situated between Gomorrah and Zeboim; but even these sites are so uncertain that we can only conjecture the locality of Admah somewhere near the middle of the southern end of the Dead Sea. SEE SODOM.
CYCLOPEDIA OF BIBLICAL, THEOLOGICAL AND ECCLESIASTICAL
press 1895.