Easton's Bible Dictionary Opening. (1.) A mountain peak (Numbers 23:28) to which Balak led Balaam as a last effort to induce him to pronounce a curse upon Israel. When he looked on the tribes encamped in the acacia groves below him, he could not refrain from giving utterance to a remarkable benediction (24:1-9). Balak was more than ever enraged at Balaam, and bade him flee for his life. But before he went he gave expression to that wonderful prediction regarding the future of this mysterious people, whose "goodly tents" were spread out before him, and the coming of a "Star" out of Jacob and a "Sceptre" out of Israel (24:14-17). (2.) A Moabite divinity, called also "Baal-peor" (Numbers 25:3, 5, 18; Comp. Deuteronomy 3:29). Int. Standard Bible Encyclopedia PEOR pe'-or (ha-pe`or; Phogor): (1) A mountain in the land of Moab, the last of the three heights to which Balaam was guided by Balak in order that he might curse Israel (Numbers 23:28). It is placed by Eusebius, Onomasticon on the way between Livias and Heshbon, 7 Roman miles from the latter. Buhl would identify it with Jebel el-Mashaqqar, on which are the ruins of an old town, between Wady A`yun Musa and Wady Chesban. (2) A town in the Judean uplands added by Septuagint (Phagor) to the list in Joshua 15:9. It may be identical with Khirbet Faghur to the South of Bethlehem. (3) Peor, in Numbers 25:18; Numbers 31:16 Joshua 22:17, is a divine name standing for "Baal-peor." (4) In Genesis 36:39, Septuagint reads Phogor for "Pau" (Massoretic Text), which in 1 Chronicles 1:50 appears as "Pai." W. Ewing

Multi-Version Concordance Peor (14 Occurrences) Numbers 23:28 Balak took Balaam to the top of Peor, that looks down on the desert. (WEB KJV JPS ASV BBE DBY WBS YLT NAS NIV) Numbers 25:3 Israel joined himself to Baal Peor: and the anger of Yahweh was kindled against Israel. (WEB KJV JPS ASV BBE DBY WBS YLT NAS NIV) Numbers 25:5 Moses said to the judges of Israel, "Everyone kill his men who have joined themselves to Baal Peor." (WEB KJV JPS ASV BBE DBY WBS YLT NAS NIV) Numbers 25:18 for they harassed you with their wiles, with which they have deceived you in the matter of Peor, and in the matter of Cozbi, the daughter of the prince of Midian, their sister, who was slain on the day of the plague in the matter of Peor." (WEB KJV JPS ASV BBE DBY WBS YLT NAS NIV) Numbers 31:16 Behold, these caused the children of Israel, through the counsel of Balaam, to commit trespass against Yahweh in the matter of Peor, and so the plague was among the congregation of Yahweh. (WEB KJV JPS ASV BBE DBY WBS YLT NAS NIV) Deuteronomy 3:29 So we abode in the valley over against Beth Peor. (WEB KJV JPS ASV BBE DBY WBS YLT NAS NIV) Deuteronomy 4:3 Your eyes have seen what Yahweh did because of Baal Peor; for all the men who followed Baal Peor, Yahweh your God has destroyed them from the midst of you. (WEB KJV JPS ASV BBE DBY WBS YLT NAS NIV) Deuteronomy 4:46 beyond the Jordan, in the valley over against Beth Peor, in the land of Sihon king of the Amorites, who lived at Heshbon, whom Moses and the children of Israel struck, when they came forth out of Egypt. (WEB KJV JPS ASV BBE DBY WBS YLT NAS NIV) Deuteronomy 23:4 Because they gave you no bread or water on your way, when you came out of Egypt: and they got Balaam, the son of Peor, from Pethor in Aram-naharaim to put curses on you. (BBE) Deuteronomy 34:6 He buried him in the valley in the land of Moab over against Beth Peor: but no man knows of his tomb to this day. (WEB KJV JPS ASV BBE DBY WBS YLT NAS NIV) Joshua 13:20 Beth Peor, the slopes of Pisgah, Beth Jeshimoth, (WEB KJV JPS ASV BBE DBY WBS YLT NAS NIV) Joshua 22:17 Is the iniquity of Peor too little for us, from which we have not cleansed ourselves to this day, although there came a plague on the congregation of Yahweh, (WEB KJV JPS ASV BBE DBY WBS YLT NAS NIV) Psalms 106:28 They joined themselves also to Baal Peor, and ate the sacrifices of the dead. (WEB KJV JPS ASV BBE DBY WBS YLT NAS NIV) Hosea 9:10 I found Israel like grapes in the wilderness. I saw your fathers as the first ripe in the fig tree at its first season; but they came to Baal Peor, and consecrated themselves to the shameful thing, and became abominable like that which they loved. (WEB KJV JPS ASV BBE DBY WBS YLT NAS NIV)