פְּעוֹרPᵉʻôwr
Peor, a mountain East of Jordan; Baal Peor, (for a deity worshipped there
Pronunciation: peh-ore' · Hebrew/Aramaic (Old Testament) · H6465
Meanings
1. mountain in Moab (apparently from some √ פעֿר) (Numbers 23:28; Deuteronomy 3:29; Joshua 15:59)
2. deity (apparently) (Numbers 25:18; Numbers 25:3; Numbers 25:5)
Same root
Where it appears
Appears 5 times in the Bible.
- Numbers 23:28 So Balak took Balaam to the top of Mount Peor, overlooking the wasteland.
- Numbers 25:18 because they assaulted you with deceit and tricked you into worshiping Baal of Peor, and because of Cozbi, the daughter of a Midianite leader, who was killed at the time of the plague because of what happened at Peor.”
- Numbers 31:16 “These are the very ones who followed Balaam’s advice and caused the people of Israel to rebel against the Lord at Mount Peor. They are the ones who caused the plague to strike the Lord’s people.
- Joshua 22:17 Was our sin at Peor not enough? To this day we are not fully cleansed of it, even after the plague that struck the entire community of the Lord.
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).