("Springs of Pisgah," or "the hill") (Deu_3:17; Deu_4:49; Jos_12:3; Jos_13:20). The mountains E. of the Dead Sea are hereby defined; "the springs" is one of the leading physical divisions of the country, namely, those at the base of the Moabite mountains (Jos_10:40; Jos_12:8). Compare Num_21:15; "the stream (pouring) of the brooks (torrents)."
Fausset's Bible Dictionary
By Andrew Robert Fausset, co-Author of Jamieson, Fausset and Brown's 1888.
ash?doth piz?ga (אשׁדּות הפסגּה, 'ashdōth ha-piṣgāh): Thus the King James Version for the Revised Version (British and American) ?The slopes (the Revised Version, margin springs) of Pisgah.? The spurs and ravines, or the ?shoulders? of Pisgah are meant. 'Ashēdāh is ?a pouring out,? and 'āshēdōth are the slopes of a mountain from which springs gush forth. In Jos_10:40; Jos_12:8, 'Áshēdōth, translated ?springs? in the King James Version, is ?slopes? in the Revised Version (British and American) (Deu_3:17; Jos_12:3; Jos_13:20). See PISGAH.
International Standard Bible Encyclopedia
PRINTER 1915.