a famous mountain beyond Jordan, which Eusebius places between Heshbon and Livias. The mountains Nebo, Pisgah, and Peor, were near one another, and probably made but the same chain of mountains. It is very likely that Peor took its name from some deity of the same name, which was worshipped there; for Peor, Phgor, or Basal-peor, was known in this country. See Numb. xxv. 3. Deut. iv. 3. Psal. cv. 28.

Peor, was a city of the tribe of Judah, which is not read in the Hebrew, nor in the Vulgate, but only in the Greek of the Septuagint (Joel. xv. 6o.) Eusebius says it was near Bethlehem, and Jerom adds, that in his time it was called Paora.