Baal-phgor, or Beel-phgor, an idol of the Moabites and Midianites. We are told, that Israel joined himself to Baal-peor; and that Solomon erected an altar to this idol upon the mount of Olives. Baal-peor has been supposed to be no other than a Priapus, and that the worship of him consisted in the most obscene practices. Others have thought, that as Baal is a general name signifying Lord, Peor may be the name of some great prince deified after his death. Mede imagines, that Peor being the name of a mountain in the country of Moab, on which the temple of Baal was built, Baal-peor may be only another name of that deity, taken from the situation of his temple; in like manner as Jupiter is styled Olympius, because he was worshipped in a temple built on Mount Olympus. Selden, who is of this latter opinion, conjectures likewise, that Baal-peor is the same with Pluto; which he grounds upon these words of the Psalmist*, They joined themselves unto Baal-peor, and ate *Palmcv, the offerings of the dead; though by the sacrifices or offerings of the dead, in this passage, may be meant no more than sacrifices or offerings made to idols, or false gods, who are very properly called the dead, in contradistinction to the true God, who is styled in Scripture the living God.