Biblical Hebrew Forum

[Vadim Cherny <him AT vadimcherny.org>]

Jim,

without going into your other arguments, place names such as "scorched" 
are in fact very common. I was recently driving, for example, through a 
Russian village named Pogorelovo ("the burned one"), and there are many 
similar examples.

Vadim Cherny

> I do not base my argument on Gesenius’ work.  I specifically said that 
whereas Gesenius sees “Sodom” as meaning “scorched”, no historical city would have 
a name meaning “scorched”.  Gesenius has missed the two more important puns 
here, which tell us that rather than being a fictional city, Sodom for the 
most part represents historical Beth Shan.