PEOR pe’ ər (הַפְּעֹ֔ור; Φογώρ, the opening). 1. Peor is a mountain in Moab in the vicinity of Nebo. To this mountain Balak brought Balaam to curse Israel (Num 23:27ff.). There is no certain identification for it.

2. Peor is the name of a Moabite deity. According to Numbers 25:18, it was in connection with the god Peor, that Zimri the Israelite married Cozbi the Midianite woman. In Numbers 31:16 it was the counsel of Baalam that moved the Midianite women to cause Israel to stray in the matter of Peor. In Joshua 22:17 the sin of the two and one-half tribes in Trans-Jordan is compared with the sin committed at Peor. This is a shortened form of that deity’s city, Baal-peor (Num 25:3, 5; Deut 4:3; Ps 106:28. Cf. also Beth-peor of Deut 3:29; 4:46; 34:6; Josh 13:20).

3. The LXX of Joshua 15:59 adds Φογώρ to the list of cities in Judah. It is the modern Khirbet Faghur, SW of Bethlehem.