Peor
Easton's Bible Dictionary
Opening.
A mountain peak (Num 23:28) to which Balak led Balaam as a last effort to induce him to pronounce a curse upon Israel. When he looked on the tribes encamped in the acacia groves below him, he could not refrain from giving utterance to a remarkable benediction (24:1-9). Balak was more than ever enraged at Balaam, and bade him flee for his life. But before he went he gave expression to that wonderful prediction regarding the future of this mysterious people, whose “goodly tents” were spread out before him, and the coming of a “Star” out of Jacob and a “Sceptre” out of Israel (24:14-17).
International Standard Bible Encyclopedia
pe'-or (ha-pe`or; Phogor):
(1) A mountain in the land of Moab, the last of the three heights to which Balaam was guided by Balak in order that he might curse Israel (Num 23:28). It is placed by Eusebius, Onomasticon on the way between Livias and Heshbon, 7 Roman miles from the latter. Buhl would identify it with Jebel el-Mashaqqar, on which are the ruins of an old town, between Wady A`yun Musa and Wady Chesban.
(2) A town in the Judean uplands added by Septuagint (Phagor) to the list in Josh 15:9. It may be identical with Khirbet Faghur to the South of Bethlehem.
(3) Peor, in Num 25:18; Num 31:16; Josh 22:17, is a divine name standing for "Baal-peor."
(4) In Gen 36:39, Septuagint reads Phogor for "Pau" (Massoretic Text), which in 1 Chr 1:50 appears as "Pai."
W. Ewing
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