פְּתוֹר
Pᵉthôwr · H6604 · Hebrew · proper noun · 2 occurrences
Place
Meanings
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Pethor
A town north of Mesopotamia, the home of Balaam
ExamplesNumbers 22:5 So he sent messengers to Balaam the son of Beor, at Pethor, which is near the Euphrates River, in the land of the sons of his people, to call for him, saying, “Behold, a people came out of Egypt; behold, they have covered the surface of the land, and they are living opposite me.
Deuteronomy 23:4 because they did not meet you with food and water on the way when you came out of Egypt, and because they hired against you Balaam the son of Beor from Pethor of Mesopotamia, to curse you.
How it’s used In 3 roles
Every occurrence, grouped by the words it is grammatically related to.
the word studied the word it goes with
Words describing itAdjectives, demonstratives, participles
1 occurrences in 1 groups
- נָהָרriver 1
Named alongside itApposition
1 occurrences in 1 groups
- אֶרֶץland, earth, ground 1
After prepositionsPrepositional phrases
1 occurrences in 1 groups
- מִןfrom 2
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Semantic domains 1 entry
- Names of Locations003001010
- פְּתוֹר names Pethor, the town near the Euphrates where Balaam lived, from which Balak's messengers summon him in Numbers 22:5 and Deuteronomy 23:5.
Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon H6604. Pthowr מְּתוֺר proper name, of a location home of Balsam; — with ה locative…
מְּתוֺר proper name, of a location home of Balsam; — with ה locative מְּת֫וֺרָה Num 22:5, φαθουρα, A Βαθουρα; נַהֲרַיִם ׳פ אֲרַם Deu 23:5, but omitted ᵐ5 ׳פ; — compare Assyrian Pitru (on western bank of upper Euphrase) SchrKGF 220; COT Num 22:5 Dl Pa 269 Dr Hastings DB; Egyptian Pe-d-ru WMMAs.u.Eur:291.
[מָּתוֺת] see פתת.
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.
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