Zoar

See also: zoar

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Mentioned in the Bible in Genesis 19:22, 23, and 30 as the place where Lot fled with his wife and two daughters to escape death, when Yahweh destroyed the cities of Sodom and Gomorrah. From Hebrew צֹעַר (tso`ar, insignificance, smallness). Was present in Old English as Sægor.

The settlement in Labrador was founded by Moravian missionaries. Compare Hebron, Hopedale, Nain and Ramah.

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Zoar

  1. (biblical) One of the Pentapolis, the five ancient cities in the Jordan valley.
  2. A ghost town in Nunatsiavut, Newfoundland and Labrador. [From 1865]
  3. A number of modern places named after the Biblical city.

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