Definition

Peor, a mountain East of Jordan; Baal Peor, (for a deity worshipped there

Etymology

from H6473 (פָּעַר); a gap; also H1187 (בַּעַל פְּעוֹר))

Word family

• פָּעַר pâʻar
• בַּעַל פְּעוֹר Baʻal Pᵉʻôwr

How the KJV renders it

• Peor. See also H1047 (בֵּית פְּעוֹר)

Every distinct English word the King James Version uses to translate this Hebrew term. The variety shows what readers in English receive across many different surface words — the same underlying word, scattered across the English Bible under different names.