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בֵּית פְּעוֹרBêyth Pᵉʻôwr

Beth-Peor, a place East of the Jordan

Pronunciation: bayth pe-ore' · Hebrew/Aramaic (Old Testament) · H1047

Meanings

proper name [of a location]: east of Jordan, in land of Amorites, in land of Moab (Deuteronomy 3:29; Deuteronomy 4:46; Joshua 13:20; Deuteronomy 34:6; Numbers 23:28)

Same root

Where it appears

Appears 8 times in the Bible.

  • Deuteronomy 3:29 So we stayed in the valley near Beth-peor.
  • Deuteronomy 4:46 and as they camped in the valley near Beth-peor east of the Jordan River. (This land was formerly occupied by the Amorites under King Sihon, who ruled from Heshbon. But Moses and the Israelites destroyed him and his people when they came up from Egypt.
  • Deuteronomy 34:6 The Lord buried him in a valley near Beth-peor in Moab, but to this day no one knows the exact place.
  • Joshua 13:20 Beth-peor, the slopes of Pisgah, and Beth-jeshimoth.
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Source: Brown, Driver and Briggs, Hebrew and English Lexicon of the Old Testament (1906), public domain; markup by unfoldingWord, CC BY (github.com/unfoldingWord/Brown-Driver-Briggs-Enhanced).