Zoar @ small, a town on the east or south-east of the Dead Sea, to which Lot and his daughters fled from Sodom Genesis:19:22-23). It was originally called Bela (14:2,8). It is referred to by the prophets Isaiah (15:5) and Jeremiah (48:34). Its ruins are still seen at the opening of the ravine of Kerak, the Kir-Moab referred to in 2Kings:3, the modern Tell esh-Shaghur.
