פְּעוֹר
Pᵉʻôwr · H6465 · Hebrew · proper noun · 5 occurrences
Place
- Peorfirst named in Numbers 23:284 verses
Meanings
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Peor
A mountain located in Moab, where Balaam tried to curse Israel and where Israelites were involved in idolatry
ExamplesNumbers 23:28 So Balak took Balaam to the top of Peor, which overlooks the desert.
Numbers 25:18 for they have been hostile to you with their tricks, with which they have deceived you in the matter of Peor and in the matter of Cozbi, the daughter of the leader of Midian, their sister who was killed on the day of the plague because of Peor.”
Numbers 31:16 “Behold, they caused the sons of Israel, through the counsel of Balaam, to be unfaithful to the LORD in the matter of Peor, so that the plague took place among the congregation of the LORD!
How it’s used In 1 role
Every occurrence, grouped by the words it is grammatically related to.
the word studied the word it goes with
In phrases “… of it”It is the genitive
5 occurrences in 3 groups
- דָּבָרword, thing, matter 3
- עָוֺןiniquity 1
- רֹאשׁhead, top, chief 1
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.
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Semantic domains 2 entries
- Names of Landforms003001008
- פְּעוֹר names Peor, the mountain peak from which Balak brings Balaam to view Israel's camp in Numbers 23:28.
- Names of Locations003001010
- The same name marks the site and event of Israel's idolatry with Baal of Peor, recalled as a byword for unfaithfulness in Numbers 25:18, 31:16, and Joshua 22:17.
Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon H6465. Peor מְּעוֺר proper name Φογωρ: 1. mont. in Moab (apparently from some √ פעֿר); —…
מְּעוֺר proper name Φογωρ:
1. mont. in Moab (apparently from some √ פעֿר); — Num 23:28 compare (פ ׳בַּעַל פ, ׳בֵּית and references; also) BuhlGeogr.122 DrDeu 3:29; [ᵐ5 Jos 15:59a [60] gives a Φαγωρ with Bethlehem; see also ᵐ5 for מָּ֑עִי מָּ֑עוּ,]. 2. dei (apparently) Num 25:18 (twice in verse) (compare פ ׳בַּעַל Num 25:3; Num 25:5), Num 31:16; Jos 22:17.
Brown, Driver and Briggs, A Hebrew and English Lexicon of the Old Testament (1906), public domain
Topical studies with this word 1 entry
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
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