Peor in the Bible

Meaning: hole; opening

Exact Match

Maarath, Beth Anoth, and Eltekon; six cities with their villages. Tekoa, Ephrathah (that is, Bethlehem), Peor, Etam, Kulom, Tatam, Sores, Kerem, Gallim, Bether and Manach; eleven cities and their villages.

Verse ConceptsSix Things

Is 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,

Verse ConceptsPurifying Oneself

Thematic Bible



So Balak took Balaam [to] the top of Peor, which looks down on the face of the Jeshimon. And Balaam said to Balak, "Build for me these seven altars, and prepare for me these seven bulls and seven rams." Balak did just as Balaam said, and he offered a bull and a ram on [each] altar.


References

Hastings

Easton

American

Fausets

Morish

Smith