Bible Location
Meaning: hole; opening · 4 cross references · Modern-day map available
Peor was the mountain height from which Balak brought Balaam to look down on Israel and near which the Baal-peor crisis unfolded. It is important because it combines blessing, temptation, and judgment in the plains of Moab setting. First appears in Num 23:28.1
Place meaning
hole; opening
Coordinates
31.77, 35.72
First appears
Num 23:28
AI summary: Peor stands at the edge of one of the Pentateuch's most charged episodes. Balaam looks from its height and utters blessing instead of curse, yet the wider Peor setting soon becomes associated with seduction into idolatry and the anger of God. Joshua later recalls that memory as a warning to later generations. The cross references present Peor as a Moabite height where prophetic blessing and covenant danger stand alarmingly close together.1
Place meaning
hole; opening
Latitude
31.77
Longitude
35.72
Bible references
4
A mountain peak (Num. 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). 3
Source note: this 1893 dictionary language reflects its period and may be culturally insensitive or outdated. It is presented as historical source material, not as ai-BIBLE’s language, interpretation, or endorsement.
AI-assisted summary prepared for ai-BIBLE and stored as page content, based on dictionary material, place metadata, and linked Bible cross references.
Alistair de Blacquiere-Clarkson, “ai-BIBLE Bible Names JSON Factsheet Aggregating Material from Smith’s Bible Dictionary & Hitcocks’s New and Complete Analysis of the Bible.” ai-BIBLE electronic edition, version 1.0.
M.G.Easton, Illustrated Bible Dictionary, ai-BIBLE electronic edition, version 1.0.
Robert Rouse, “Theographic Bible Information,” Theographic-Bible-Metadata, 2020, https://github.com/robertrouse/theographic-bible-metadata.