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PHASGA

Volume 16 · 135 words · 1815 Edition

or Pisgah, (Moses), a mountain on the other side Jordan, joined to Abarim and Nebo, and running south to the mouth of the Arnon: from which Moses had a view of the promised land, and where he died, having before appointed Joshua his successor. Wells takes Pisgah and Nebo to be different names of one and the same mountain, a part or branch of the mountains Abarim (Deut. xxxii. 49, compared with Deut. xxxiv. 1). Or that the top of Nebo was peculiarly called Pisgah; or some other part of it, cut out in steps, as the primitive word denotes: and thus it is rendered by Aquila, by a Greek word signifying cut out (Jerome). There was also a city of this name, id.; and the adjoining country was in like manner called Pisgah, id.