Midvash

אַשְׁדּוֹת הַפִּסְגָּהʼAshdôwth hap-Piçgâh

Ashdoth-Pisgah, a place east of the Jordan

Pronunciation: ash-doth' hap-pisgaw' · Hebrew/Aramaic (Old Testament) · H798

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 4 times in the Bible.

  • 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 4:49 And they conquered the eastern bank of the Jordan River as far south as the Dead Sea, below the slopes of Pisgah.)
  • Joshua 12:3 Sihon also controlled the Jordan Valley and regions to the east—from as far north as the Sea of Galilee to as far south as the Dead Sea, including the road to Beth-jeshimoth and southward to the slopes of Pisgah.
  • Joshua 13:20 Beth-peor, the slopes of Pisgah, and Beth-jeshimoth.

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).