פִּסְגָּהPiçgâh

Pisgah, a Mountain East of Jordan

Pronunciation: pis-gaw' · Hebrew/Aramaic (Old Testament) · H6449

Meanings

proper name [of a mountain]: Pisgah, probably cleft, from a natural feature of mountain, mountain in Moab, on northeast shore of Dead Sea, exact location unknown (Deuteronomy 3:17; Numbers 21:20; Numbers 23:14; Deuteronomy 3:27; Deuteronomy 34:1)

Same root

Where it appears

Appears 8 times in the Bible.

  • Numbers 21:20 After that they went to the valley in Moab where Pisgah Peak overlooks the wasteland.
  • Numbers 23:14 So Balak took Balaam to the plateau of Zophim on Pisgah Peak. He built seven altars there and offered a young bull and a ram on each altar.
  • Deuteronomy 3:17 They also received the Jordan Valley, all the way from the Sea of Galilee down to the Dead Sea, with the Jordan River serving as the western boundary. To the east were the slopes of Pisgah.
  • Deuteronomy 3:27 But go up to Pisgah Peak, and look over the land in every direction. Take a good look, but you may not cross the Jordan River.
  • Deuteronomy 4:49 And they conquered the eastern bank of the Jordan River as far south as the Dead Sea, below the slopes of Pisgah.)
  • Deuteronomy 34:1 Then Moses went up to Mount Nebo from the plains of Moab and climbed Pisgah Peak, which is across from Jericho. And the Lord showed him the whole land, from Gilead as far as Dan;
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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).