Gidom in the Bible — Hidden Meaning & Symbolism

severing; completely cutting off; destroying; laying waste; desolation. A place somewhere between Gibeah and the rock of Rimmon. The Israelites pursued and destroyed the Benjamites as far as Gidom because of their adulterous sin at Gibeah (Judg. 20:45). Meta. A state of consciousness in which there is great activity during the cutting off, by denial, of impure thoughts and desires; also a sense of desolation, or emptiness, that comes over one when one has been very vigorous in the denial and putting away of some error that was strongly rooted in the consciousness, and has not as yet established positive Truth in its place.