BRIMSTONE

A mineral substance, highly inflammable, and burning with a suffocating smell. Sodom and the other cities of the plain were destroyed "by brimstone and fire," Ge 19:24; and this awful catastrophe is often used in Scripture, as an emblem of temporal and eternal judgments of God upon the wicked, Job 18:15; Ps 11:6; Isa 30:33; 34:9; Re 21:8.

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Brimstone. Brimstone
An inflammable mineral substance found in quantities on the shores of the Dead Sea. The cities of the plain were destroyed by a rain of fire and brimstone (Gen. 19:24, 25). In Isa. 34:9 allusion is made to the destruction of these cities. This word figuratively denotes destruction or punishment (Job 18:15; Isa. 30:33; 34:9; Ps. 11:6; Ezek. 38:22). It is used to express the idea of excruciating torment in Rev. 14:10; 19:20; 20:10.

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BRIMSTONE. → Fire and, rained upon Sodom Ge 19:24; Lu 17:29 → In Palestine De 29:23 → FIGURATIVE Job 18:15; Ps 11:6; Isa 30:33; Eze 38:22; Re 9:17,18; 14:10; 19:20; 21:8

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Brimstone, or sulphur, is found in considerable quantities on the shores of the Dead Sea. (Genesis 19:24) It is a well-known simple mineral substance, crystalline, easily melted, very inflammable, and when burning emits a peculiar suffocating odor. It is found in great abundance near volcanoes. The soil around Sodom and Gomorrah abounded in sulphur and bitumen.

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Ge 19:24; Job 18:15; Ps 11:6; Lu 17:29

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brimstone. Brimstone, n. a kind of yellow mineral, sulphur

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Brim″stone (�), n. [[OE. brimston, bremston, bernston, brenston; cf. Icel. brennistein. See Burn, v. t., and Stone.]] Sulphur; See Sulphur.