וַ֠יִּקְחוּ אֶת כָּל רְכֻ֨שׁ סְדֹ֧ם וַעֲמֹרָ֛ה וְאֶת כָּל אָכְלָ֖ם וַיֵּלֵֽכוּ
They took all the goods of Sodom and Gomorrah, and all their food, and went their way.
World English Bible · Public Domain
Genesis 14:11
Hebrew (Westminster Leningrad Codex) Genesis 14:11 appears in the Hebrew Old Testament. The text above is from the Westminster Leningrad Codex. Each word links to its Strong’s number, a concise gloss, and parsing drawn from the Open Scriptures Hebrew Bible morphology. Click any word for its full Brown-Driver-Briggs (BDB) entry.
English Translation
They took all the goods of Sodom and Gomorrah, and all their food, and went their way.
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The same verse in 3 English versions, stacked beneath the original-language interlinear above. Click any original word for its lexicon entry.
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World English Bible Public Domain
They took all the goods of Sodom and Gomorrah, and all their food, and went their way.
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King James Version Public Domain
And they took all the goods of Sodom and Gomorrah, and all their victuals, and went their way.
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unfoldingWord Literal Text CC BY-SA 4.0
Then they took all the possessions of Sodom and Gomorrah and all their food, and left.
unfoldingWord Literal Text — © unfoldingWord, licensed CC BY-SA 4.0. Word-aligned USFM3 via Door43 (git.door43.org/unfoldingWord/en_ult).
Show all 18 translations
Every available English version of this verse, each an independent rendering of the whole verse.
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World English Bible Public Domain
They took all the goods of Sodom and Gomorrah, and all their food, and went their way.
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Berean Standard Bible Public Domain
The four kings seized all the goods of Sodom and Gomorrah and all their food, and they went on their way.
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Majority Standard Bible Public Domain
The four kings seized all the goods of Sodom and Gomorrah and all their food, and they went on their way.
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King James Version Public Domain
And they took all the goods of Sodom and Gomorrah, and all their victuals, and went their way.
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American Standard Version (1901) Public Domain
And they took all the goods of Sodom and Gomorrah, and all their victuals, and went their way.
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Revised Version (1885) Public Domain
And they took all the goods of Sodom and Gomorrah, and all their victuals, and went their way.
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Geneva Bible (1599) Public Domain
Then they tooke all the substance of Sodom and Gomorah, and al their vitailes and went their way.
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Douay-Rheims (1899) Public Domain
And they took all the substance of the Sodomites, and Gomorrhites, and all their victuals, and went their way:
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Young's Literal Translation Public Domain
And they take the whole substance of Sodom and Gomorrah, and the whole of their food, and go away;
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Literal Standard Version CC BY-SA 4.0
And they take the whole substance of Sodom and Gomorrah, and the whole of their food, and go away;
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Unlocked Literal Bible CC BY-SA 4.0
So the kings took all the goods of Sodom and Gomorrah and all their provisions, and went their way.
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unfoldingWord Literal Text CC BY-SA 4.0
Then they took all the possessions of Sodom and Gomorrah and all their food, and left.
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Darby Bible Public Domain
And they took all the property of Sodom and Gomorrah, and all their victuals, and departed.
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World Messianic Bible Public Domain
They took all the goods of Sodom and Gomorrah, and all their food, and went their way.
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Webster's Bible Public Domain
And they took all the goods of Sodom and Gomorrah, and all their provisions, and went their way.
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Free Bible Version CC BY-SA 4.0
The invaders took from Sodom and Gomorrah all their possessions and food and left.
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Bible in Basic English Public Domain
And the four kings took all the goods and food from Sodom and Gomorrah and went on their way.
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JPS Tanakh (1917) Public Domain
And they took all the goods of Sodom and Gomorrah, and all their victuals, and went their way.
Literal Standard Version (2020), Covenant Press — licensed CC BY-SA 4.0. Text via the HelloAO Bible API (eBible.org). Unlocked Literal Bible (unfoldingWord) — licensed CC BY-SA 4.0. Text via the HelloAO Bible API (eBible.org). unfoldingWord Literal Text — © unfoldingWord, licensed CC BY-SA 4.0. Word-aligned USFM3 via Door43 (git.door43.org/unfoldingWord/en_ult). Free Bible Version, Dr. Jonathan Gallagher — licensed CC BY-SA 4.0. Text via the HelloAO Bible API (eBible.org).
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וַעֲמֹרָ֛ה
ʻĂmôrâh
H6017
“and · Gomorrah”
Conjunction + Noun, Proper
- Appears 19× in the Hebrew Bible
- First appears at Genesis 10:19
- Part of Speech
- Conjunction + Noun
- Type
- Proper
Full BDB Definition
Gomorrah = "submersion"
- the twin-city in evil with Sodom, both destroyed in judgment by God with fire from heaven
- of iniquity (figuratively)
- וַ֠יִּקְחוּ lâqach H3947 “and · to take” Conjunction + Verb, Qal, Sequential Imperfect, 3rd Person, Masculine, Plural
- אֶת ʼêth H853 “-” Particle, Direct Object
- כָּל kôl H3605 “all of” Noun, Common, Masculine, Singular, Construct
- רְכֻ֨שׁ rᵉkûwsh H7399 “property of” Noun, Common, Masculine, Singular, Construct
- סְדֹ֧ם Çᵉdôm H5467 “Sodom” Noun, Proper
- וַעֲמֹרָ֛ה ʻĂmôrâh H6017 “and · Gomorrah” Conjunction + Noun, Proper
- וְאֶת ʼêth H853 “and · -” Conjunction + Particle, Direct Object
- כָּל kôl H3605 “all of” Noun, Common, Masculine, Singular, Construct
- אָכְלָ֖ם ʼôkel H400 “food · their” Noun, Common, Masculine, Singular, Construct + Suffix, Personal, 3rd Person, Masculine, Plural
- וַיֵּלֵֽכוּ yâlak H3212 “and · to walk” Conjunction + Verb, Qal, Sequential Imperfect, 3rd Person, Masculine, Plural
About this verse
These counts appear in no published source. They are computed here, from the morphology-tagged text and Lemma’s own curated glosses. What Lemma adds →
- 10
- words
- 8
- distinct lemmas
- Pentateuch
- section
Notable vocabulary
The rarest word here is וַעֲמֹרָ֛ה Gomorrah H6017 — appearing just 19 times in the whole Hebrew Bible.
First appearance in Scripture
This word makes its first canonical appearance in the Hebrew Bible here:
- אָכְלָ֖ם food H400
Shared distinctive vocabulary
וַעֲמֹרָ֛ה Gomorrah H6017 occurs in 19 verses of the Hebrew Bible. Also found in:
Grammatical profile
- 2 verbs
- 6 nouns
- 2 particles
Verb forms
- וַ֠יִּקְחוּ Qal · Sequential Imperfect
- וַיֵּלֵֽכוּ Qal · Sequential Imperfect
Repetition
A word recurs within this verse — often emphatic in Hebrew:
- כָּל all H3605 ×2
Hebrew & Septuagint length
In English translation the verse runs 17 words from the Hebrew and 16 from the Septuagint (LXX English) — closely comparable.
A rough comparison of the two English renderings, which tokenize alike — not a word-level alignment.
Word counts can differ between the Hebrew and the Greek without any difference in meaning — e.g. the Hebrew direct-object marker אֵת has no separate Greek word, and Greek often adds the article ὁ.
In the original languages it is 10 Hebrew tokens and 16 Greek tokens — but the two are counted differently (Hebrew bundles its prefixes and suffixes into one token; the Greek is in lemma form), so that isn’t a like-for-like length.
Cross-references
6Topical passages linked to Genesis 14:11 in the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge — connected by theme and wording, ordered by reader-vote popularity; previews shown in the World English Bible.
- Genesis 14:16 He brought back all the goods, and also brought back his relative, Lot, and his goods, and the women also, and the people.
- Genesis 14:21 The king of Sodom said to Abram, "Give me the people, and take the goods to yourself."
- Genesis 12:5 Abram took Sarai his wife, Lot his brother's son, all their substance that they had gathered, and the souls who they had gotten in Haran; and they went forth to go into the land of Canaan. Into the land of Canaan they came.
- Deuteronomy 28:31 Your ox shall be slain before your eyes, and you shall not eat of it: your donkey shall be violently taken away from before your face, and shall not be restored to you: your sheep shall be given to your enemies, and you shall have none to save you.
- Deuteronomy 28:35 Yahweh will strike you in the knees, and in the legs, with a sore boil, of which you can not be healed, from the sole of your foot to the crown of your head.
- Deuteronomy 28:51 and shall eat the fruit of your cattle, and the fruit of your ground, until you are destroyed; that also shall not leave you grain, new wine, or oil, the increase of your cattle, or the young of your flock, until they have caused you to perish.
Cross-references courtesy of OpenBible.info (CC BY 4.0).
Hebrew and Greek witnesses Masoretic Hebrew ↔ Greek Septuagint
The same verse in the two great witnesses to the Old Testament, shown verse-for-verse.
These are two independent witnesses, not word-aligned to each other, and the Septuagint is shown in lemma (dictionary) form.
λαμβάνω δέ ὁ ἵππος πᾶς ὁ σοδομα καί γομορρα καί πᾶς ὁ βρῶμα αὐτός καί ἀποἔρχομαι
And they took all the cavalry of Sodom and Gomorrha, and all their provisions, and departed.
LXX2012 (modern English Septuagint) · Public Domain
Hebrew: Westminster Leningrad Codex (CC BY 4.0). Greek: Septuagint (public domain); English from LXX2012 (modern English Septuagint) (Public Domain). How the Septuagint differs from the Hebrew →
Targum (Aramaic paraphrase)
The Targum is the ancient Jewish Aramaic paraphrase of the Hebrew Scriptures — an interpretive translation, not the Hebrew text itself. Onkelos (literal) and Pseudo-Jonathan (expansive) render the Torah, and Jonathan the Prophets. Coverage is partial: where no permissively-licensed English translation exists for a verse, only the Aramaic is shown. This is verse-level text, not a word-by-word alignment to the Hebrew.
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Targum Onkelos Torah (Genesis–Deuteronomy)
וּשְׁבוֹ יָת כָּל קִנְיָנָא דִסְדוֹם וַעֲמוֹרָה וְיָת כָּל מֵיכָלְהוֹן וַאֲזָלוּ
And they took all the possession of Sedom and Amorah, and, all their food, and went.
Targum Onkelos — Aramaic: “Onkelos Genesis” (public domain); “Onkelos Exodus” (public domain); “Onkelos Leviticus” (public domain); “Onkelos Numbers” (public domain); “Onkelos Deuteronomy” (public domain). English: “Sefaria Community Translation” (CC0 1.0 (public-domain dedication)); “J.W. Etheridge. The Targums of Onkelos and Jonathan Ben Uzziel on the Pentateuch. London: Longmans, Green, 1862” (public domain). Text via Sefaria.
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Targum Pseudo-Jonathan Torah (Genesis–Deuteronomy)
וּנְסֵיבוּ יַת כָּל קִנְיָינָא דִסְדוֹם וַעֲמוֹרָה וְיַת כָּל מְזוֹנֵיהוֹן וַאֲזָלוּ
And they took all the property of Sedom and Amora, and all their food, and went.
Targum Pseudo-Jonathan — Aramaic: “Targum Jonathan on Genesis” (public domain); “Targum Jonathan on Exodus” (public domain); “Targum Jonathan on Leviticus” (public domain); “Targum Jonathan on Numbers” (public domain); “Targum Jonathan on Deuteronomy” (public domain). English: “The Targum of Jonathan ben Uzziel, trans. J. W. Etheridge, London, 1862” (public domain). Text via Sefaria.
Lesson kit
Teaching starters — assembled from the data on this page, not authored interpretation. Every prompt links to the verse data it draws on. Edit before teaching.
Genesis, in the Pentateuch, opens this verse with 10 words (8 distinct Hebrew lemmas). Its most distinctive word is ʻĂmôrâh (“Gomorrah”). A historical commentator’s framing appears above. Read the whole chapter for the surrounding context.
Discussion questions
- What does “Gomorrah” (ʻĂmôrâh) contribute to the verse as a whole?
- This is the first place “food” appears in Scripture (first appears here). What does its debut here establish?
- How does Genesis 10:19, which shares the word «Gomorrah», read alongside this verse?
- What does the repetition of “all” (2× in this one verse) do in this verse?
- These translations render this verse differently; the difference is in the English rendering, not the original. What questions does that raise?
- «וַ֠יִּקְחוּ» is a Qal Sequential Imperfect verb. How does that grammatical form shape the action described?
- Compare how Trapp's Complete Commentary and Adam Clarke's Commentary read this verse. Where do they agree or differ?
Things to notice
- 1 word makes its first canonical appearance in Scripture here.
- This verse counts 10 Hebrew ↔ 16 Greek words.
- These translations choose different wording for 7 words in this verse.
- “all” occurs 2× in this single verse.
- 8 distinct Hebrew lemmas span 10 words in this verse.
Commentary
Notes on Genesis 14:11 from classic Christian and Jewish commentators (each source and its license shown beneath its notes). The classic Christian expositions comment on the surrounding passage and are grouped to its opening verse, so a note may address several verses; the Jewish commentaries on the Tanakh (Rashi and others) are per-verse, so they appear only where the commentator wrote on this verse.
Lemma curates 59 commentaries, every one of them public domain or Creative Commons licensed, each selected and text-cleaned for this edition rather than reprinted as found. About our sources →
Trapp's Complete Commentary
John Trapp
John Trapp, A Commentary or Exposition upon All the Books of the Old and New Testament (1647–1656) — public domain. Text from a community e-Sword module.
Adam Clarke's Commentary
Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible (1810–1826) — public domain. Text from a community e-Sword/MySword module.
The Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges
gen. ed. J. J. S. Perowne
The Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges (gen. ed. J. J. S. Perowne; Cambridge University Press, 1878–1918) — public domain. Text from a community e-Sword module.
John Gill's Exposition
John Gill's Exposition of the Whole Bible (1746–1763) — public domain (CC PDM 1.0). Text via the HelloAO Bible API.
Whedon's Commentary on the Bible
Daniel D. Whedon
Daniel D. Whedon (gen. ed.), Commentary on the Old and New Testaments (1874–1909) — public domain. Text from a community e-Sword module.
The Pulpit Commentary
The Pulpit Commentary (1880–1919), ed. H.D.M. Spence-Jones & Joseph S. Exell — public domain. Text from a community e-Sword module.
Radak
Rabbi David Kimhi (Radak)
Radak on the Tanakh — English translations: “Sefaria Community Translation” (CC0 1.0 (public-domain dedication)); “Eliyahu Munk, HaChut Hameshulash” (CC BY 4.0); “Rabbi Mike Feuer, Jerusalem Anthology” (CC BY 4.0); and “R. David Kimhi on the first book of Psalms, Translated by R.G. Finch, London, 1919” (public domain). Text via Sefaria.