Peor

2 definitions found

From Easton's 1897 Bible Dictionary [easton]:

  Peor
     opening. (1.) 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).
     
       (2.) A Moabite divinity, called also "Baal-peor" (Num. 25:3,
     5, 18; comp. Deut. 3:29).
     

From Hitchcock's Bible Names Dictionary (late 1800's) [hitchcock]:

  Peor, hole; opening