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, that looks toward the wilderness. Then Balaam said to Balak, "Build seven altars here for me, and prepare seven bulls and seven rams." So Balak did as Balaam had said, and offered a bull and a ram on each altar.


References

Hastings

Easton

American

Fausets

Morish

Smith

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