Zoar
Americannoun
Etymology
Origin of Zoar
From Hebrew Ṣōʿar
Example Sentences
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Sometime in 1989, Herbert Darling got a call: A hunter told him he had come across a tall, straight American chestnut tree on Darling’s property in Western New York’s Zoar Valley.
From New York Times • Apr. 30, 2020
At Lake Zoar, near New London, Conn., Sergeant W. E. Bushy of the state police cast bread upon the waters, literally.
From Time Magazine Archive
More recently, he has modified his claim: three of the five names occur� Sodom, Gomorrah and Zoar � and he explains that these might not be the same as the cities mentioned in Genesis.
From Time Magazine Archive
The sun was risen upon the Earth when Lot entered into Zoar, I read.
From "Slaughterhouse-Five" by Kurt Vonnegut
Kalisch says that "about the situation of Zoar there remains little doubt."
From Bible Romances First Series by Foote, G. W. (George William)
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