Peor

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Hitchcock's Bible Names Dictionary


PEOR.—1. A mountain E. of the Jordan to which Balak led Balaam (Num_23:28). It looked down upon the desert. The Onomasticon (s.v. ‘Fogor’) places it 7 miles from Heshbon, above Livias, one of the heights of the Nebo group. Conder suggests for it the peak above ’Ain el-Minyeh, about 5 miles W. of Ma‘în. Buhl (GAP [Note: AP Geographie des alten Paiastina.] ) thinks it may be et-Mushakkar, flanked by Wâdy Hesbân and Wâdy ’Ayûn Mûsa. 2. In Num_25:18; Num_31:16, Jos_22:17, Peor is the god Baal-Peor. 3. LXX [Note: Septuagint.] places a Peor (Phagor) in Judah not far from Bethlehem, which is evidently the modern Khirbel Faghûr, to the S. of the town.
W. Ewing.
Hastings' Dictionary of the Bible
Edited by James Hastings, D.D. Published in 1909


The mountain top to which Balak brought Balaam, for his last conjurations, from the lower Pisgah on its S. (Num_23:28.) A little to the N.E. of the Dead Sea. Bethpeer adjoined the "ravine" (gai) connected with Israel's camp and Moses' burial place (Deu_3:29; Deu_4:46; Deu_34:6). The ravine of Bethpeor was that which runs down from near Heshbon eastward past Beth-ram; at its upper end are a town's ruins, Naur or Taur. "The Peor" faced Jeshimon. (On Peor, contracted for Baalpeor Num_25:18; Num_31:16; Jos_22:17). (See BAALPEOR).)
Fausset's Bible Dictionary
By Andrew Robert Fausset, co-Author of Jamieson, Fausset and Brown's 1888.


Pe'or. (cleft). A mountain peak in Moab, belonging to the Abarim range, and near Pisgah, to which, after having ascended Pisgah, the prophet Balaam was conducted by Balak, that he might look upon the whole host of Israel, and curse them. Num_23:14; Num_23:28 . In four passages ? Num_25:18, twice; Num_31:16; Jos_22:17 ? Peor occurs as a contraction for Baal-peor. See Baal).
Smith's Bible Dictionary
By Dr. William Smith.Published in 1863


pē?or (הפּעור, ha-pe‛ōr; Φογώρ, Phogṓr):
(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-Mashaḳḳar, on which are the ruins of an old town, between Wâdy A‛yūn Mūsa and Wâdy Ḥesbān.
(2) A town in the Judean uplands added by Septuagint (Φαγώρ, Phagṓr) to the list in Jos_15:9. It may be identical with Khirbet Fāghūr to the South of Bethlehem.
(3) Peor, in Num_25:18; Num_31:16; Jos_22:17, is a divine name standing for ?Baal-peor.?
(4) In Gen_36:39, Septuagint reads Phogor for ?Pau? (Massoretic Text), which in 1Ch_1:50 appears as ?Pai.?

International Standard Bible Encyclopedia
PRINTER 1915.


Peor, 1
Pe?or, a mountain in the land of Moab (Num_23:28). Eusebius places it between Livias and Esbus, over against Jericho; which shows that it was not supposed to be east of the Dead Sea as usually stated. It has not in modern times been recognized.
Peor, 2
Peor, an idol. [BAAL PEOR]




The Popular Cyclopedia of Biblical Literature
by John Kitto.


Peor
(Heb. Peor i', פְּעוֹר, cleft, always with the art. when speaking of the mountain, but without it of the idol; Sept. Φογώρ), the name of a hill and of a heathen deity; perhaps also of a town.
1. A mountain on the plateau of Moab, to the top of which Balak led Balaam that he might see the whole host of Israel and curse them (Num_23:28). It appears to have been one of the ancient high places of Moab dedicated to the service of Baal (Num_22:41; Num_23:13; Num_23:27). Its position is described as “looking to the face of Jeshimon;” that is, the wilderness on either side of the Dead Sea. SEE DESERT.
If it were in sight of the Arabah of Moab, on the east bank of the Jordan, where the Israelites were then encamped, it must have been one of those peaks on the western brow of the plateau which are seen between Heshbon and the banks of the Arnon (comp. Josephus, Ant. 4:6,4). Two other incidental notices of the sacred writers tend to fix its position. There can be little doubt that it was connected with the town of Beth-Peor, which is described as “over against” the site of the Israelitish camp (Deu_3:29; comp. 34:6). SEE BETH-PEOR.
Josephus says it was sixty stadia distant from the camp (Ant. 4:6, 4); Eusebius states that it lay above Livias (the ancient Beth-aran), six miles distant from it, and opposite Jericho; and Jerome mentions Mount Phogor as situated between Livias and Heshbon (Onomast. s.v. Fogor and Araboth Moab). It would seem, therefore, that this mountain was one of those peaks on the south side of Wady Heshbon commanding the Jordan valley. A place named Fuichatr(h is mentioned in the list of towns south of Es-Salt in the appendix to the first edition of Dr. Robinson's Bib. Res. (vol. iii, Append. p. 169), and this is placed by Van de Velde at the head of the Wady Eshteh, eight miles north-east of Hesban. Professor Paine, however, recently contends that it is one of the summits of the present Jebel Neba. SEE PISGAH.
2. “The matter of Peor” (דבר פ8) mentioned in Num_25:18; Num_31:16; and the “iniquity of Peor” (עין פ8), spoken of by Joshua (Jos_22:17), refer to the Midianitish deity Baal-peor, and not to the mountain. By following the counsels of Balaam, the Midianites seduced the Israelites to take part in their worship, and the licentious revels by which it appears to have been accompanied; and thus they brought upon them the divine vengeance (Num_31:16; Num_25:1 sq.). The temple or shrine of Baal-peor probably stood on the top of the mountain; and the town of Beth-peor may have been situated at its base. Gesenius (Thesaur. p. 1119 a) gives it as his opinion that Baal-peor derived its name from the mountain, not the mountain from him. SEE BAAL-PEOR.
3. A Peor, under its Greek garb of Φαγώρ, appears among the eleven names added by the Sept. to the list of the allotment to Judah, between Bethlehem and Aitan (Etham). It was known to Eusebius and Jerome, and is mentioned by the latter in his translation of the Onomasticon as Phaoa. It probably still exists under the name of Beit Faghur or Kirbet Faghur, five miles south-west of Bethlehem, barely a mile to the left of the road from Hebron (Reland, Palaest. p. 643; Robinson, Bib. Res. 3:275; Tobler, Dritte Wanderung, p. 92).

CYCLOPEDIA OF BIBLICAL, THEOLOGICAL AND ECCLESIASTICAL
press 1895.





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