H6465: פְּעוֹר
Pᵉʻôwr · pronounced peh-ore' · “Peor”
Definition
Peor, a mountain East of Jordan; Baal Peor, (for a deity worshipped there
KJV translates it as: Peor. See also H1047 (בֵּית פְּעוֹר).
Word origin: from H6473 (פָּעַר); a gap; also H1187 (בַּעַל פְּעוֹר))
Extended definition
a mountain peak in Moab belonging to the Abarim range and near Pisgah
Brief lexicon based on BDB via STEPBible TBESH (CC BY 4.0).
How H6465 is translated
- peor ×5
Bible verses with H6465 (Pᵉʻôwr)
Pᵉʻôwr appears in 4 verses.
- Numbers 23:28
And Balak brought Balaam unto the top of Peor, that looketh toward Jeshimon.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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,