Beth-peor
בֵּית פְּעוֹרStrong’s H1047bet peor (bet pe-or)
Appears in 4 verses of the Old Testament
In short
Bet peor is the Hebrew word usually translated “peor” and “beth”. It appears in 4 verses of the Old Testament.
“So we abode in the valley over against Bethpeor.”
Meaning
- § Beth-peor = "house of Peor"
How it's translated
- peor 4
- beth 3
- and beth 1
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- Deuteronomy 3
- Joshua 1
2 books in all.
Explore in Scripture
- Deuteronomy 4:46On this side Jordan, in the valley over against Bethpeor, in the land of Sihon king of the Amorites, who dwelt at Heshbon, whom Moses and the children of Israel smote, after they were come forth out of Egypt:
- Deuteronomy 34:6And he buried him in a valley in the land of Moab, over against Bethpeor: but no man knoweth of his sepulchre unto this day.
- Joshua 13:20And Bethpeor, and Ashdothpisgah, and Bethjeshimoth,
Hebrew dictionary
בֵּית פְּעוֹר bet peor · Beth-peor
§ Beth-peor = "house of Peor" a place east of the Jordan, in the land of the Amorites, allotted to the tribe of Reuben
From STEPBible’s Hebrew lexicon (based on Brown-Driver-Briggs).
Webster's 1828 Dictionary
How the English word “be” was understood when the King James Version was still the common Bible of English readers.
BE, verb intransitive
substantive, participle present tense being; participle passive been.[The sense is to stand, remain or be fixed; hence to continue. This verb is defective, and its defects are supplied by verbs from other roots, as, is, was, were, which have no radical connection with be The case is the same with the substantive verb in most languages.]
- To be fixed; to exist; to have a real state or existence, for a longer or shorter time.“Let this mind be in you, which was in Christ Jesus” Philippians 2:5
- To be made to be; to become.
- To remain.
- To be present in a place.
All definitions
- To have a particular manner of being or happening; as, how is this affair? how was it? what were the circumstances?
Noah Webster, An American Dictionary of the English Language (1828). Verse references are checked against the KJV. Read the full entry.
Verses are from the King James Version. Word meanings come from the original Hebrew, not from any one translation.