Peor
פְּעוֹרStrong’s H6465peor (pe-or)
Appears in 4 verses of the Old Testament
In short
Peor is the Hebrew word usually translated “peor”. It appears in 4 verses of the Old Testament.
“And Balak brought Balaam unto the top of Peor, that looketh toward Jeshimon.”
Meaning
- § Peor = "cleft"
How it's translated
- peor 5
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- Numbers 3
- Joshua 1
2 books in all.
Related words
Explore in Scripture
- Numbers 25:18For 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 31:16Behold, 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 22:17Is 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,
Hebrew dictionary
פְּעוֹר peor · Peor
§ Peor = "cleft" a mountain peak in Moab belonging to the Abarim range and near Pisgah
From STEPBible’s Hebrew lexicon (based on Brown-Driver-Briggs).
Verses are from the King James Version. Word meanings come from the original Hebrew, not from any one translation.