Ἔγγαδα - Stephanos Ethnika

Ἔγγαδα OCR ✓ Trans ✓ Confirmed ✓

village

Ἔγγαδα, κώμη μεγάλη πλησίον Σοδόμων Ἀραβίας. τὸ ἐθνικὸν Ἐγγαδηνός ὡς Ζοαρηνός, καὶ θηλυκῶς καὶ οὐδετέρως.

Engada: a large village near Sodom in Arabia. The ethnonym is 'Engadenos', also in the feminine and the neuter.

Text Details

Entry	#5
Greek text	meineke
Edition ids	Meineke 260.3 · Billerbeck Ε5
OCR	gemini-constrained (gemini-3-flash-preview) on 2025-12-22
Word count	15
AI translation	legacy_scholarly v2 · gpt-5.2

Mentioned Entities

Entity	Details
Ἐγγάδα	Enggada (place) · place
Σόδομα	Sodom · place
Ἀραβία	Arabia · place
Ἐγγαδηνός	Ethnic name 'Enggadēnos' (inhabitant of Enggada) · people
Ζοαρηνός	Ethnic name 'Zoarēnos' (inhabitant of Zoar) · people

Etymologies

Category	Explanation
Unclear Metalinguistic	The ethnicon Ἐγγαδηνός (from Ἐγγάδα), also as Ζοαρηνός, and used in the feminine and the neuter.

Links

Place links	Ein Gedi \| 📍 Map
Page scans	vol2_155.jpg
Review	Open review page

Herodian overlaps

Stephanos excerpt (left) is aligned with matched Herodian passages (right). Colors indicate corresponding overlap spans.

Herodian 1.379

char LCS 37 (42.5%) · word LCS 6 (40.0%)

Stephanos

Ἔγγαδα, κώμη μεγάλη πλησίον Σοδόμων Ἀραβίας. τὸ ἐθνικὸν Ἐγγαδηνός ὡς Ζοαρηνός, καὶ θηλυκῶς καὶ οὐδετέρως.

Herodian

… Μώαβα μοῖρα τῆς Ἀραβίας. Ἀνάζαρβα πόλις Κιλικίας. κέκληται ἀπὸ τοῦ προκειμένου ὄρους ἢ ἀπὸ Ἀναζάρβα τοῦ κτίσαντος. * Τὰ εἰς 'γον' καὶ 'δον' οὐδέτερα κύρια ὑπὲρ δύο συλλαβὰς προπαροξύνεται, Βήσσυγα ἐμπόριον τῆς Ἰνδικῆς. Ἔγγαδα κώμη μεγάλη πλησίον Σοδόμων Ἀραβίας. Μασανώραδα πόλις Καρίας ἀπὸ Μασανωράδου τοῦ Κινδαψοῦ παιδός. Σύνναδα πόλις Φρυγίας. λέγουσι δὲ Ἀκάμαντα μετὰ τὰ Τρωϊκὰ ἀποπλανηθέντα ἐλθεῖν εἰς Φρυγίαν καὶ καταλαβεῖν πολιορκούμενον τὸν τῶν τόπων δυνάστην καὶ βοηθήσαντ…