H6465

פעור

פעור

paiwar

Proper noun · From פער (H6473)

From H6473; a gap; also H1187) Peör, a mountain East of Jordan; Baal Peor, (for a deity worshipped there:—Peor. See also H1047.

Outline

Peor = "cleft"
proper locative noun

a mountain peak in Moab belonging to the Abarim range and near Pisgah
proper noun with reference to deity
a false god worshipped in Moab; corresponds to Baal

Usages

Numbers 23:28

And Balak brought Balaam unto the top of Peor, that looketh toward Jeshimon.

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Numbers 25:18

For they vex you with their wiles, wherewith they have beguiled you in the matter of Peor, and in the matter of Cozbi, the daughter of a prince of Midian, their sister, which was slain in the day of the plague for Peor’s sake.

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Numbers 31:16

Behold, these caused the children of Israel, through the counsel of Balaam, to commit trespass against the LORD in the matter of Peor, and there was a plague among the congregation of the LORD.

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Joshua 22:17

Is the iniquity of Peor too little for us, from which we are not cleansed until this day, although there was a plague in the congregation of the LORD,

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