This name is given to the five cities, Sodom, Gomorrah, Adamah, Zoar, and Zoar (Wildom x. 6.). They were all five condemned to utter destruction, but Lot interceded for the preservation of Zoar, otherwise called Bala. Sodom, Gomorrah, Adamah, and Zoar, were all consumed by fire Pentateuch, from heaven, and in the place where they stood was made the lake Asphaltites, or the lake of Sodom.

(Ptolemy), a district of Syriaena; situated on the Mediterranean; denominated from its five cities; namely, Berenice, Arfinoe, Ptolemais, Cyrene, and Apollonia.

PENTAPOLIS of the Philistines, (Josephus); taking name from five principal cities, Gaza, Gath, Ascalon, Azotus, and Ekron.