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Strong's #6465: P`owr (pronounced peh-ore')

from 6473; a gap; Peor, a mountain East of Jordan; also (for 1187) a deity worshipped there:--Peor. See also 1047.




Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon:

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pe‛ôr

Peor = "cleft"

1) a mountain peak in Moab belonging to the Abarim range and near Pisgah (noun proper locative)

2) a false god worshipped in Moab; corresponds to Baal (noun proper deity)

Part of Speech: see above in Definition



Usage:

This word is used 5 times:

Numbers 23:28: "Balaam unto the top of Peor, that looketh toward Jeshimon."
Numbers 25:18: "they have beguiled you in the matter of Peor, and in the matter of Cozbi, the daughter"
Numbers 25:18: "which was slain in the day of the plague for Peor's sake."
Numbers 31:16: "against the LORD in the matter of Peor, and there was a plague among the congregation of the LORD."
Joshua 22:17: "Is the iniquity of Peor too little for us, from which we are not cleansed"









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