How to Pronounce Chedor-Laomer
KEH-duhr-lay-OH-muhr
Chedor-Laomer is pronounced KEH-duhr-lay-OH-muhr (ˌkɛdəleɪˈəʊmə): five syllables, stress on the first and fourth.
What does Chedor-Laomer mean?
Chedor-Laomer means “roundness of a sheaf”.
Hitchcock’s Bible Names (1869), public domain.
Who was Chedor-Laomer?
(= Khudur-Lagamar of the inscriptions), king of Elam. Many centuries before the age of Abraham, Canaan and even the Sinaitic peninsula had been conquered by Babylonian kings, and in the time of Abraham himself Babylonia was ruled by a dynasty which claimed sovereignity over Syria and Palestine. The kings of the dynasty bore names which were not Babylonian, but at once South Arabic and Hebrew. The most famous king of the dynasty was Khammu-rabi, who united Babylonia under one rule, and made Babylon its capital.
Adapted from Easton's Bible Dictionary (1897), public domain.
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