Pisgah in Fausset's Bible Dictionary
A ridge of the Abarim mountains W. from Heshbon. Nebo was a
town on, or near, that ridge, lying on its western slope
(Numbers 21:20; Numbers 32:3; Numbers 32:38; Deuteronomy
32:49; Deuteronomy 34:1). From Pisgah, Israel gained their
first view of the Dead Sea and Jordan valley; hence Moses
too viewed the land of promise. The correct designation for
the mount is not "Nebo" (which has become usual for
convenience sake) but "the mountain adjoining Nebo." In
Scripture Nebo denotes only the town (Isaiah 15:2; Jeremiah
48:1-22). The uniform peakless nature of Pisgah caused its
parts to be distinguished only by the names of the adjacent
villages. It always has the article "THE Pisgah" E. of
Jordan, near "the field of Moab, opposite Jericho." The
field of Zophim was on it Ashsoth-Pisgah; Deuteronomy 3:17.
frontASHDOTH-PISGAH.)
Pisgah is derived from paasag "to divide," a
detached range of Abarim. Tristram from a point about 4,500
ft. high, three miles S.W. of Heshbon and one and a half W.
of Main, saw to the N. and E. the Gilead hills, and the vast
Belka ocean of grain and grass; to the S., Her and Seir of
Arabia; to the W., the Dead Sea and Jordan valley and the
familiar objects near Jerusalem; and over Jordan, Gerizim's
round top, and further the Esdraelon plain and the shoulder
of Carmel; to the N. rose Tabor's outline, Gilboa and little
Hermon (jebel Duhy); in front rose Ajlun's dark forests,
ending in Mount Gilead, behind Es Salt (Ramoth Gilead) The
name Pisgah survives only on the N.W. end of the Dead Sea,
in the Ras el Feshkah (Hebrew: Rosh ha-Pisgah, "top of
Pisgah"). Jebel Siugah ("fragment") probably answers to
Pisgah. It is "over against Jericho," and the view
corresponds. It is a fragment cut off by declivities on all
sides, and separated from Nebo by the wady Haisa.
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