Lexical Summary Peor: a mountain in Moab, also a god worshiped there Original Word: פְעוֹרTransliteration: Peor Phonetic Spelling: (peh-ore') Part of Speech: proper name; mont. Short Definition: a mountain in Moab, also a god worshiped there Meaning: Peor -- a mountain in Moab, also a god worshiped there Strong's Concordance Peor From pa'ar; a gap; Peor, a mountain East of Jordan; also (for Ba'al p'owr) a deity worshipped there -- Peor. See also Beyth p'owr. see HEBREW pa'ar see HEBREW Ba'al p'owr see HEBREW Beyth p'owr Brown-Driver-Briggs H6465. Peor מְּעוֺר proper name Φογωρ: 1. mont. in Moab (apparently from some √ פעֿר); — Numbers 23:28 compare (פ ׳בַּעַל פ, ׳בֵּית and references; also) BuhlGeogr.122 DrDeuteronomy 3:29; [ᵐ5 Joshua 15:59a [60] gives a Φαγωρ with Bethlehem; see also ᵐ5 for מָּ֑עִי מָּ֑עוּ,]. 2. dei (apparently) Numbers 25:18 (twice in verse) (compare פ ׳בַּעַל 25:3; 25:5), 31:16; Joshua 22:17. |