H1187 H1187
Baal Peor -- the Moabite deity Baal worshipped at Peor, and the site of Israel's apostasy
Baal Peor refers to the local Baal deity worshipped at the mountain or shrine called Peor in Moab. The name is inseparable from the notorious apostasy at Shittim (Num 25:1-9), where Israelites joined in the licentious Moabite cult and provoked a devastating plague. Moses cites the episode as a cautionary memory (Deut 4:3), the psalmist recounts it as paradigmatic unfaithfulness (Ps 106:28), and Hosea reaches back to the same event to diagnose Israel's persistent idolatry (Hos 9:10). All six occurrences revolve around this single historical-theological referent. Translations across languages uniformly preserve the compound name: Spanish Baal-Peor, French Baal-Peor, German Baal-Peor.
Senses
1. Baal Peor — The Moabite deity Baal as worshipped at the site of Peor, and by extension the infamous cultic apostasy associated with that place. Every occurrence harks back to the Shittim disaster of Numbers 25, whether narrating the event itself (Num 25:3, 5), citing it as a warning (Deut 4:3), lamenting it in worship (Ps 106:28), or invoking it prophetically (Hos 9:10). Cross-lingual evidence is fully uniform -- every target language retains 'Baal Peor' untranslated -- confirming this is a single proper-noun referent with no semantic subdivision. 6×
AR["بَعلَ-فَعورَ", "بَعْلِ-فَغُورَ", "بِ-بَعل-فَعور", "بِ-بَعْلِ-فَعُورَ", "بِبَعْلِ-فَغُورَ"]·ben["বাল-পিয়োরে", "বাল-পিয়োরের", "বাল-পিয়োরের-সাথে", "বাল-পীয়োরের-সাথে"]·DE["Baal-Peor", "[בעלפעור]", "bei-Baal-Peor", "zu-Ba'al-Pe'or", "zu-Baal-Peor"]·EN["Baal-Peor", "at-Baal-Peor", "to-Ba'al-Pe'or", "to-Baal-Peor"]·FR["Baal-Peor", "Baal-Péor", "à-Baal-Peor", "à-Baal-Péor"]·heb["ב-בעל פעור", "בעל פעור", "בעל-פעור", "ל-בעל פעור", "לבעלפעור"]·HI["-बाल-पेओर-में", "बआल-पओर", "बआल-पेओर-से", "बाल-पेओर-के", "बाल-पोर-से"]·ID["Baal-Peor", "dengan-Baal-Peor", "di-Baal-Peor", "ke-Baal-Peor"]·IT["Baal-Peor", "[בעלפעור]", "[לבעל פעור]", "a-Baal-Peor"]·jav["Baal-Péor", "dhateng-Baal-Péor", "ing-Baal-Péor", "kaliyan-Baal-Peor"]·KO["바알-브올에", "바알-비오르-에게", "바알브올-에게", "바알브올-에서", "바알브올을"]·PT["Baal-Peor", "a-Ba'al-Pe'or", "a-Baal-Peor", "em-Baal-Peor"]·RU["-Баал-Пеором", "Ваал-Пеор", "в-Баал-Пеоре", "к-Баал-Пеору"]·ES["Baal-Peor", "a-Baal-Peor", "con-Baal-Peor"]·SW["Baal-Peori", "Baali-Peori", "katika-Baal-Peori", "kwa-Baal-Peori", "na-Baali-Peori"]·TR["-Baal-Peor'a", "Baal-Peor'a", "Baal-Peor'da", "Baal-Peor'un"]·urd["بعل-فعور", "بعل-فعور-سے", "بعل-پعور", "بعل-پعور-سے", "بعل-پعور-میں"]
Related Senses
G3588 1. definite article (18298×)H0853 1. definite direct object marker (10915×)G2532 1. (8312×)H3068 1. YHWH (the divine name) (6522×)H0834a 1. relative pronoun (who/which/that) (4839×)H3588a 1. causal: because, for (3498×)G1161 1. and (2806×)H3478 1. Israel (proper name and nation) (2507×)G4771 1. you (plural address) (1853×)H1931 1. personal pronoun he/she/it (1431×)G3739 1. relative pronoun who/which/that (1149×)H1732 1. David (proper name) (1075×)H2088 1. this, this one (demonstrative) (1059×)G1063 1. (1047×)G3778 1. this thing, these things (1003×)H???? 2. (1002×)G2424 1. (924×)G3754 1. that (content clause) (881×)H2009 1. presentative particle: behold, look (881×)H0589 1. I (first person singular pronoun) (874×)
BDB / Lexicon Reference
† בַּ֫עַל פְּעוֹר n.pr.m. Nu 25:3, 5 Dt 4:3(×2) ψ 106:28 Ho 9:10, Baal of Peor (VB) i.e. worshipped at פְּעוֹר q.v.; or Baal-P. (whence Peor as n.pr.loc.); cf. Di Nu 25:3 BaudStud. ii. 233 BaeRel 14, 210.