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BETH-PEOR

Volume 3 · 44 words · 1815 Edition

in Ancient Geography, a town of the Reubenites, on the other side Jordan, at Mount Fogor, over against Jericho, fix miles above Livia. It had a temple sacred to the idol Baal-Peor, Numbers xxv. 3, called Beel-Phegor by the Vulgate, interpreted Priapus by Jerome.