Segor

Also known as: Bala, Zoar
Description: Small city near the Dead Sea to which Lot fled from the destruction of Sodom
Coordinates: 31.05, 35.45

Small city near the Dead Sea, originally called Bala, to which Lot fled from the destruction of Sodom. Lapide uses it as an example of prolepsis (anticipation) in Scripture: Moses calls the city by the name Segor, which it received only later.

Commentary on the Pentateuch of Moses

Canons Bearing a Torch Before the Pentateuch — Moses calls Bala by the later name Segor (prolepsis)
"he calls the city Bala by the name Segor, which however was not then but only later called Segor"

Segor

Commentary on the Pentateuch of Moses

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