Strong H6465פְּעוֹר

Peor

Transliteration: pe‛ôr
Pronunciation: peh-ore'
Morphology: Proper Name of a Location with no gender

Definition

From H6473; a gap;
{Peor} a mountain East of Jordan; also (for H1187) a deity worshipped there: - Peor. See also H1047 .

Meaning of the name

Peor = "cleft"

Detailed definition

Peor was a mountain in Moab where Balak brought Balaam to curse Israel, and where the Israelites later engaged in idolatry and immorality with the Moabites.

In the biblical story

Peor

A mountain in Moab associated with idolatry

Peor was a mountain in Moab where Balak brought Balaam to curse Israel, and where the Israelites later engaged in idolatry and immorality with the Moabites.

In the Bible

Strong H6465 appears in 4 verses of the KJV.

Translated in the KJV by

peor4
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First verses

Numbers 23:28
And Balak brought Balaam unto the top of Peor, that looketh toward Jeshimon.
Numbers 25:18
For they vex you with their wiles, wherewith they have beguiled you in the matter of Peor, and in the matter of Cozbi, the daughter of a prince of Midian, their sister, which was slain in the day of the plague for Peor’s sake.
Numbers 31:16
Behold, these caused the children of Israel, through the counsel of Balaam, to commit trespass against the Lord in the matter of Peor, and there was a plague among the congregation of the Lord.
Joshua 22:17
Is the iniquity of Peor too little for us, from which we are not cleansed until this day, although there was a plague in the congregation of the Lord,

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