בַּעַל פְּעוֹר
Baʻal Pᵉʻôwr · H1187 · Hebrew · proper noun · 12 occurrences
Person
- Baalstorm god (supernatural being)53 verses
Place
Meanings
-
Baal-Peor
Deity of Moab
ExamplesNumbers 25:3 So Israel became followers of Baal of Peor, and the LORD was angry with Israel.
Numbers 25:5 So Moses said to the judges of Israel, “Each of you kill his men who have become followers of Baal of Peor.”
Psalm 106:28 They also followed Baal-peor, And ate sacrifices offered to the dead.
-
Baal-Peor
Location of temple of Baal-Peor
ExamplesDeuteronomy 4:3 “Your eyes have seen what the LORD has done in the case of Baal-peor, for all the men who followed Baal-peor, the LORD your God has destroyed them from among you.
Hosea 9:10 I found Israel like grapes in the wilderness; I saw your forefathers as the earliest fruit on the fig tree in its first season. But they came to Baal-peor and devoted themselves to shame, And they became as detestable as that which they loved.
How it’s used
Every occurrence, grouped by the words it is grammatically related to.
When two words share a role, as in “Paul and Barnabas said”, the verse appears under each, so a section’s counts can add up to more than the number of occurrences.
MACULA Greek Linguistic Datasets, available at https://github.com/Clear-Bible/macula-greek/, licensed CC BY 4.0; MACULA Hebrew Linguistic Datasets © 2022-2024 by Biblica, Inc., CC BY 4.0. Westminster Leningrad Codex (tanach.us). OpenScriptures Hebrew Bible morphology (hb.openscriptures.org), CC BY 4.0.
Semantic domains 2 entries
- Names of Deities003001004
- בַּעַל פְּעוֹר, "Baal-peor," names the Moabite deity Israel worshiped at Shittim, as in Numbers 25:3's "Israel became followers of Baal of Peor," functioning as a divine proper name tied to the episode that provoked the LORD's anger.
- Names of Locations003001010
- The same name also identifies the associated place, Mount Peor, where this worship occurred, as reflected in Deuteronomy 4:3's reference to "what the LORD has done in the case of Baal-peor," tying the deity's name to a specific location.
Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon H1187. Baal Peor מְּעוֺר בַּ֫עַל proper name, masculine Num 25:3, Num 25:5; Deu 4:3…
Peor מְּעוֺר בַּ֫עַל proper name, masculine Num 25:3, Num 25:5; Deu 4:3 (twice in verse); Psa 106:28; Hos 9:10, Baal of Peor (VB) i.e. worshipped at מְּעוֺר q. v.; or Baal-P. (whence Peor as proper name, of a location); compare Di Num 25:3 BaudStud. ii. 233 BaeRel 14, 210.
Brown, Driver and Briggs, A Hebrew and English Lexicon of the Old Testament (1906), public domain
Topical studies with this word 2 entries
Meanings adapted from the UBS Dictionary of the Greek New Testament, © United Bible Societies, CC BY-SA 4.0 and the UBS Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew (from the Semantic Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew), © United Bible Societies, CC BY-SA 4.0; MACULA Greek Linguistic Datasets, available at https://github.com/Clear-Bible/macula-greek/, licensed CC BY 4.0; MACULA Hebrew Linguistic Datasets © 2022-2024 by Biblica, Inc., CC BY 4.0. Westminster Leningrad Codex (tanach.us). OpenScriptures Hebrew Bible morphology (hb.openscriptures.org), CC BY 4.0.
Sources
eRhema lexical overview, based on the UBS Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew and the UBS Dictionary of the Greek New Testament (© United Bible Societies, CC BY-SA 4.0) and Macula Hebrew and Greek (Clear Bible, CC BY 4.0); released under CC BY-SA 4.0
New American Standard Bible Copyright © 1960, 1971, 1977, 1995, 2020 by The Lockman Foundation, La Habra, Calif. All rights reserved. For Permission to Quote Information visit http://www.lockman.org.