Pisgah
piz'-ga (ha-picgah; Phasga, to lelaxeumenon, he laxeute):
This name, which has always the definite article, appears
only in combination either with ro'sh, "head," "top," or
'ashdoth, not translated in the King James Version save in
Dt 4:49, where it is rendered "springs" the Revised Version
(British and American) uniformly "slopes," the Revise...
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(A ridge or mountain east of the Jordan River, opposite to
Jericho)
-The Israelites come to
Nu 21:20
-A boundary of the country assigned to the Reubenites and
Gadites
De 3:17; 4:49; Jos 12:3
-Balaam prophesies on
Nu 23:14-24
-Moses views Israel from
De 3:27; 34:1-4...
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(section, i.e. peak), Nu 21:20; 23:14; De 3:27; 34:1 a
mountain range or district, the same as or a part of, that
called the mountains of Abarim. Comp. De 32:49 with Deut 34:1
It lay on the east of Jordan contiguous to the field
of Moab, and immediately opposite Jericho. Its highest point
or summit --its "head"--was Mount Nebo. [See NEBO]...
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a part, a mountain summit in the land of Moab, in the
territory
of Reuben, where Balak offered up sacrifices (Num.
21:20;
23:14), and from which Moses viewed the promised land
(Deut.
3:27). It is probably the modern Jebel Siaghah. (See
NEBO...
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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 designatio...
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Get thee up into the top of Pisgah, and lift up thine eyes
westward, and northward, and southward, and eastward, and
behold [it] with thine eyes: for thou shalt not go over this
Jordan....
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And all the plain on this side Jordan eastward, even unto the
sea of the plain, under the springs of Pisgah....
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And Moses went up from the plains of Moab unto the mountain of
Nebo, to the top of Pisgah, that [is] over against Jericho.
And the LORD shewed him all the land of Gilead, unto Dan,...
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And he brought him into the field of Zophim, to the top of
Pisgah, and built seven altars, and offered a bullock and a
ram on [every] altar....
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