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Baal-peor

“master of the opening” Hitchcock's 18692 mentions in 2 books, most in Deuteronomy (1)

Where it is

SebamSebamMedebaMedebaBaal-meonBaal-meonBeth-jeshimothBeth-jeshimothMinnithMinnithShittimShittimBaal-peorabout 33 km across

31.77° N, 35.72° E · Located through Pisgah

Coordinates and map: OpenBible.info Bible Geocoding · CC BY 4.0 · drawn without map tiles

Mentioned most in

Deuteronomy · 1Hosea · 1
Counted from 2 references · STEPBible, Tyndale House Cambridge · CC BY 4.0

Every mention

2 references, counted from STEPBible, Tyndale House Cambridge · CC BY 4.0 · verse text: World English Bible (public domain)

Deuteronomy 1 mention

Deuteronomy 4:3Your eyes have seen what Yahweh did because of Baal Peor; for Yahweh your God has destroyed all the men who followed Baal Peor from among you.

Hosea 1 mention

Hosea 9:10I 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…

What the dictionary says

Lord of the opening, a god of the Moabites (Num. 25:3; 31:16; Josh. 22:17), worshipped by obscene rites.

Easton's Bible Dictionary (1897)
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