BOSOR (1Ma_5:26; 1Ma_5:36).A town in Gilead. The site is uncertain.
Hastings' Dictionary of the Bible
Edited by James Hastings, D.D. Published in 1909
Bo'sor. Same as Beor. 2Pe_2:15.
Smith's Bible Dictionary
By Dr. William Smith.Published in 1863
bō?sor (Βοσόρ, Bosór):
(1) A city named among those taken by Judas Maccabeus ?in the land of Gilead? (1 Macc 5:26, 36). From the towns named it is evident that this phrase is elastic, covering territory beyond what is usually called the land of Gilead. Possibly therefore Bosor may be identical with Buṣr el-Ḥarı̄rı̄, in the Luḥf, Southeast of el-Lejā'.
(2) In 2Pe_2:15 the King James Version, the Greek form of BEOR (which see).
International Standard Bible Encyclopedia
PRINTER 1915.
Bosor
(Boσόρ), the Graecized form of the name of a place and of a man.
1. A city, both large and fortified, on the east of Jordan, in the land of Gilead (Galaad), named with Bozrah (Bosora), Carnaim, and other places, in 1Ma_5:26; 1Ma_5:36. It is probably the BEZER SEE BEZER (q.v.) of Num_4:43 (see Grimm, Exeg. Handb. in loc.).
2. The Aramaic mode of pronouncing the name of BEOR SEE BEOR (q.v.), the father of Balaam (2Pe_2:15), in accordance with the substitution, frequent in Chaldee, of צfor ע(see Gesenius, Thes. p. 1144).
CYCLOPEDIA OF BIBLICAL, THEOLOGICAL AND ECCLESIASTICAL
press 1895.