בַּעַל פְּעוֹרBaʻal Pᵉʻôwr

proper name, masculine: Baal of Peor, Baal-P.

Pronunciation: bah'-al peh-ore' · Hebrew/Aramaic (Old Testament) · H1187

Meanings

Same root

Where it appears

Appears 12 times in the Bible.

  • Numbers 25:3 In this way, Israel joined in the worship of Baal of Peor, causing the Lord’s anger to blaze against his people.
  • Numbers 25:5 So Moses ordered Israel’s judges, “Each of you must put to death the men under your authority who have joined in worshiping Baal of Peor.”
  • Deuteronomy 4:3 “You saw for yourself what the Lord did to you at Baal-peor. There the Lord your God destroyed everyone who had worshiped Baal, the god of Peor.
  • Psalms 106:28 Then our ancestors joined in the worship of Baal at Peor; they even ate sacrifices offered to the dead!
  • Hosea 9:10 The Lord says, “O Israel, when I first found you, it was like finding fresh grapes in the desert. When I saw your ancestors, it was like seeing the first ripe figs of the season. But then they deserted me for Baal-peor, giving themselves to that shameful idol. Soon they became vile, as vile as the god they worshiped.
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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).