Strong’s H6465 · Hebrew
פְּעוֹר
Pᵉʻôwr · peh-ore'
Origin from פָּעַר (H6473); a gap; also בַּעַל פְּעוֹר (H1187))
Meaning Peor, a mountain East of Jordan; Baal Peor, (for a deity worshipped there
In the King James Version Peor. See also בֵּית פְּעוֹר (H1047).
In 4 verses of the King James Version
- Numbers 23:28And Balak brought Balaam unto the top of Peor, that looketh toward Jeshimon.
- Numbers 25:18For they vex you with their wiles, wherewith they have beguiled you in the matter of Peor, and in the matter of Cozbi, the daughter of a prince of Midian, their sister, which was slain in the day of the plague for Peor’s sake.
- Numbers 31:16Behold, these caused the children of Israel, through the counsel of Balaam, to commit trespass against the LORD in the matter of Peor, and there was a plague among the congregation of the LORD.
- Joshua 22:17Is the iniquity of Peor too little for us, from which we are not cleansed until this day, although there was a plague in the congregation of the LORD,
From James Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance of the Bible (1890): its Greek dictionary in the edition of Ulrik Petersen, its Hebrew and Chaldee dictionary in that of David Troidl and David Instone-Brewer; the King James words numbered as in the edition the site sets the King James Version from. Public domain.