'Little' — named from Lot's own plea, mid-apocalypse: 'is it not a little one (mits'ar)?' (19:20-22). A landmark fixing the plain's southern extent at its first mention (13:10), it alone of the plain's cities is spared, at Lot's asking — the destruction literally waits until he arrives (19:22). Then Lot, afraid of the town he begged for, leaves it for a cave in the hills (19:30).