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HebrewH6465Noun

פְּעוֹר

pe.or

4Occurrences
H6465Strong's #
NounPart of Speech

Definition

Quick Definition(Strong's Concordance)

Peor, a mountain East of Jordan; Baal Peor, (for a deity worshipped there

from H6473 (פָּעַר); a gap; also H1187 (בַּעַל פְּעוֹר))

Full Lexicon Entry(Abbott-Smith)
§ Peor = "cleft" a mountain peak in Moab belonging to the Abarim range and near Pisgah

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Grammar & Morphology

Part of Speech

Noun

Morphology Code

N:N--L

Full Description

N:N--L

Occurrences

פְּעוֹר appears 4 times in the Old Testament.

Distribution by Book

Numbers
3
Joshua
1

Key Passages

Joshua 22:17BSB

Was not the sin of Peor enough for us, from which we have not cleansed ourselves to this day? It even brought a plague upon the congregation of the LORD.

Numbers 23:28BSB

And Balak took Balaam to the top of Peor, which overlooks the wasteland.

Numbers 25:18BSB

For they assailed you deceitfully when they seduced you in the matter of Peor and their sister Cozbi, the daughter of the Midianite leader, the woman who was killed on the day the plague came because of Peor.”

Numbers 31:16BSB

“Look, these women caused the sons of Israel, through the counsel of Balaam, to turn unfaithfully against the LORD at Peor, so that the plague struck the congregation of the LORD.

Lexicon data from STEPBible.org (Tyndale House, Cambridge) under CC BY 4.0 license.