英语词汇“cities of the plain”的英英意思、用法、释义、翻译、读音、例句、短语、词组-英语词典

city of the plain n. [after Hebrew ʿīr ha-kikkar (Genesis 13:12; < ʿīr town, city + ha- the + kikkar plain, valley, oval-shaped district, specific sense development of kikkar round thing)] any of the five biblical cities of Sodom, Gomorrah, Admah, Zeboim, and Zoar (or Bela), situated on the plain of Jordan and destroyed according to Genesis 19 because of the wickedness of the inhabitants. Also in extended use: any place notorious for depravity or corruption. Chiefly in plural as cities of the plain. Cf. Sodom n.

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1540 Bible (Great) Gen. xiii. 12 Lot abode in the cyties of the playne [Heb. ʿīrē ha-kikkar].

1611 Bible (King James) Gen. xiii. 12 Lot dwelled in the cities of the plaine, and pitched his tent toward Sodome.

1705 A. Symson Tripatriarchicon 85 'Twas a showr Strange, fierce, and [printed ana] terrible, which did devour The cities of the plain, and all therein Both man and beast.

a1749 P. Cockburn Enq. into Truth Mosaic Deluge (1750) i. i. 20 God designed to destroy Sodom, and the other cities of the Plain, for their abominable and unnatural crimes.

1838 Southern Literary Messenger Mar. 149/2 Perhaps the sudden and consuming wrath which fell upon the city of the plain, was mercy compared with the protracted sufferings of this abandoned people.

1884 Sat. Rev. 8 Nov. 590/2 Mr. Thorold Rogers's comparison of the House of Lords to the Cities of the Plain.

1926 Rotarian Nov. 16/3 Paris is absurdly supposed by bleak and ignorant Anglo-Saxons to be one of those ‘cities of the plain’, given over entirely to ‘chambering and wantonness’.

2012 N.Y. Times (Nexis) 4 Mar. 14 If Rezzori had sat in judgment over the Old Testament cities of the plain, one suspects they would have come away with a fine and a few dozen hours of community service.

单词	cities of the plain
释义	> as lemmas cities of the plain city of the plain n. [after Hebrew ʿīr ha-kikkar (Genesis 13:12; < ʿīr town, city + ha- the + kikkar plain, valley, oval-shaped district, specific sense development of kikkar round thing)] any of the five biblical cities of Sodom, Gomorrah, Admah, Zeboim, and Zoar (or Bela), situated on the plain of Jordan and destroyed according to Genesis 19 because of the wickedness of the inhabitants. Also in extended use: any place notorious for depravity or corruption. Chiefly in plural as cities of the plain. Cf. Sodom n. ΚΠ 1540 Bible (Great) Gen. xiii. 12 Lot abode in the cyties of the playne [Heb. ʿīrē ha-kikkar]. 1611 Bible (King James) Gen. xiii. 12 Lot dwelled in the cities of the plaine, and pitched his tent toward Sodome. View more context for this quotation 1705 A. Symson Tripatriarchicon 85 'Twas a showr Strange, fierce, and [printed ana] terrible, which did devour The cities of the plain, and all therein Both man and beast. a1749 P. Cockburn Enq. into Truth Mosaic Deluge (1750) i. i. 20 God designed to destroy Sodom, and the other cities of the Plain, for their abominable and unnatural crimes. 1838 Southern Literary Messenger Mar. 149/2 Perhaps the sudden and consuming wrath which fell upon the city of the plain, was mercy compared with the protracted sufferings of this abandoned people. 1884 Sat. Rev. 8 Nov. 590/2 Mr. Thorold Rogers's comparison of the House of Lords to the Cities of the Plain. 1926 Rotarian Nov. 16/3 Paris is absurdly supposed by bleak and ignorant Anglo-Saxons to be one of those ‘cities of the plain’, given over entirely to ‘chambering and wantonness’. 2012 N.Y. Times (Nexis) 4 Mar. 14 If Rezzori had sat in judgment over the Old Testament cities of the plain, one suspects they would have come away with a fine and a few dozen hours of community service. extracted from cityn. Cities of the Plain Cities of the Plain: the biblical cities on the plain of Jordan in ancient Palestine, notably Sodom and Gomorrah before their destruction on account of the wickedness of their inhabitants ( Genesis 19:24).extracted from plainn.¹ < as lemmas
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