בַּ֫עַל פְּעוֹר
Baal-peor
BDB lists 2 entries for ‘Baal-peor’ fuller range ↓
Full lexicon entry — Brown-Driver-Briggs (BDB)
From Brown-Driver-Briggs (BDB)
Where this word appears
Grammar key — what these labels mean
Part of speech
- Noun
- A naming word — a person, place, thing, or idea.
Noun type
- Proper
- A name of a specific person, place, or people (e.g. Abraham, Zion, Israel).
Every verse where H1187 appears — 5 distinct verses across 4 books. Click any verse to open its interlinear word-by-word view. Verse text shown in the World English Bible for context — . Each verse’s Hebrew form is shown with its reference; the English is not keyword-highlighted, since the data carries no word-level English alignment. Use “Compare translations” on any verse to read it across multiple English versions. This concordance covers the Hebrew Bible; Septuagint (Greek Old Testament) occurrences are not indexed here.
Numbers 2 verses
- Numbers 25:3 לְ/בַ֣עַל פְּע֑וֹר prep + n Proper n Proper Israel joined himself to Baal Peor: and the anger of Yahweh was kindled against Israel.
- Numbers 25:5 לְ/בַ֥עַל פְּעֽוֹר prep + n Proper n Proper Moses said to the judges of Israel, Kill you everyone his men who have joined themselves to Baal Peor.
Deuteronomy 1 verse
Psalms 1 verse
Hosea 1 verse
About this entry
At a glance — auto-summarized from this page’s data, not written by a person. Every figure links to its source below. This summary describes the numbers; it doesn’t interpret them.
בעל פעור (Baʻal Pᵉʻôwr) is a Hebrew name most often rendered “Baal-peor.” It is rare — just 5 verses in the entire Hebrew Bible. It concentrates in Numbers, which alone accounts for 40% of its uses. Scripture first uses it in Numbers 25:3. The sections below give every occurrence and version rendering.
Gloss history
Strong's 1890 vs modern scholarship
About this word
Strong's H1187 catalogs a Hebrew word from the Hebrew Old Testament.
These counts are not copied from any lexicon or concordance. They are computed here, from the morphology-tagged Hebrew Old Testament. What Lemma adds →
- 5
- distinct verses
- The word appears in 5 distinct verses.
- 4 / 39
- OT books
- The word appears in 4 of 39 Old Testament books.
- #2,101
- by frequency
- Top 2500 most frequent Hebrew words (rank 2,101 of 8,640 Hebrew words by occurrence).
View all 5 occurrences in the concordance →
Most concentrated in
- Numbers 2 verses 40%
- Deuteronomy 1 verse 20%
- Psalms 1 verse 20%
By section of the Old Testament
By traditional corpus
Conventional, traditional groupings — biblical authorship is debated, so this is a traditional corpus grouping, not an authorship claim. Each share is this word’s portion of its verses in that division of the Hebrew canon. Each figure is a share of the word’s 5 distinct verses.
- Torah (Pentateuch) 3 verses · 60%
- Prophets (Nevi'im) 1 verse · 20%
- Writings (Ketuvim) 1 verse · 20%
How translations render this word
Counts come from each version’s own published word-to-Strong’s tagging or interlinear alignment — an approximate guide to how each version renders this word, not a word-level alignment the data otherwise carries. Because each total is that version’s own tagged count, the per-version totals vary from one another and need not match the appearance or distinct-verse counts above. These counts may also differ from a printed concordance because Lemma counts each distinctly tagged rendering and does not collapse phrase taggings into a single head-word total. This is a fixed set of word-tagged versions (KJV, ASV, BSB, ULT) and does not change with the reading translation you choose elsewhere. Each version’s license is shown beside its name below (and on Sources).
- King James Version: Baalpeor 4×
- American Standard Version: Baal-peor 3×
- Berean Standard Bible: Baal of peor 4×, Baal-peor 2×
- unfoldingWord Literal Text: Peor 6×, Baal of 4×, Baal 2×
King James Version Public Domain
Renders H1187 across 6 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Plus 2 renderings that appear only once — usually multi-word phrases or single function words the recovered tagging swept in, not distinct renderings.
American Standard Version Public Domain
Renders H1187 across 6 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Plus 3 renderings that appear only once — usually multi-word phrases or single function words the recovered tagging swept in, not distinct renderings.
Berean Standard Bible Public Domain
Renders H1187 across 6 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Not rendered by a distinct English word in 1 further occurrence.
unfoldingWord Literal Text CC BY-SA 4.0
Renders H1187 across 12 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Senses in BDB
The 2 senses BDB distinguishes for this word, in lexicon order (not ranked by frequency or importance). The full entry — with sub-senses — is in the Lexicon Entry tab.
- Baal-peor = "lord of the gap"
- the deity worshipped at Peor with probable licentious rites
Word origin
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.
— Brown-Driver-Briggs (Oxford 1906, public domain), digitized via Sefaria, supplemented by the OpenScriptures HebrewLexicon (CC BY 4.0). See Sources.
Derived from בעל (Baʻal) (H1168) — Baal.
Forms in the corpus
The 8 distinct written forms H1187 takes in the Hebrew Bible, most frequent first — each parse links to that state’s occurrences in the concordance. Hebrew forms include their vowel points and cantillation, so a single lemma takes many written forms.
| Form | Parsing | Example | Uses |
|---|---|---|---|
| פְּע֑וֹר | Noun, Proper | Deuteronomy 4:3 | 3 |
| בַֽעַל | Noun, Proper | Deuteronomy 4:3 | 2 |
| לְ/בַ֣עַל | Noun, Proper | Numbers 25:3 | 2 |
| בְּ/בַ֣עַל | Noun, Proper | Deuteronomy 4:3 | 1 |
| לְ/בַ֥עַל | Noun, Proper | Numbers 25:5 | 1 |
| פְּע֔וֹר | Noun, Proper | Deuteronomy 4:3 | 1 |
| פְּע֗וֹר | Noun, Proper | Hosea 9:10 | 1 |
| פְּעֽוֹר | Noun, Proper | Numbers 25:5 | 1 |
Same root — word family
Other BDB entries built from the same root as H1187, grouped by Strong’s listed origin. These share a root / origin per the lexicon — not necessarily a shared meaning. Each links to that word’s own entry.
Derives from
Shares the same root
Proper names from this root
People and places named from this root — a name, not an additional meaning of the word.
- Βααλ Báal G896 Baal
- בל Bêl H1078 Bel
- בעל ברית Baʻal Bᵉrîyth H1170 Baal-berith
- בעל גד Baʻal Gâd H1171 Baal-gad
- בעל זבוב Baʻal Zᵉbûwb H1176 Baal-zebub
- בעלידע Bᵉʻelyâdâʻ H1182 Beeliada
- בעל מעון Baʻal Mᵉʻôwn H1186 Baal-meon
- בעל צפון Baʻal Tsᵉphôwn H1189 Baal-zephon
- בעל שלשה Baʻal Shâlishâh H1190 Baal-shalisha
Compare all same-root words → Showing 4 of 12 — not the complete family. 10 of the same-root words are proper names (people or places). They share a root, not necessarily a meaning.
Bible dictionary
Public-domain dictionary articles matched to this entry by name (Baal-peor). A biblical name can be shared by more than one person or place, so an article may treat several.
Easton's Bible Dictionary · M. G. Easton, 1897
Lord of the opening, a god of the Moabites (Num. 25:3; 31:16; Josh. 22:17), worshipped by obscene rites. So called from Mount Peor, where this worship was celebrated, the Baal of Peor. The Israelites fell into the worship of this idol (Num. 25:3, 5, 18; Deut. 4:3; Ps. 106:28; Hos. 9:10).
Hitchcock's Bible Names Dictionary · Roswell D. Hitchcock, 1869
master of the opening
Classic public-domain reference works; full attribution on Sources.
Septuagint verse parallels
This word appears in 5 verses that also exist in the Greek Old Testament (Septuagint), out of the 5 Hebrew verses it occurs in. You can read those verses in Greek by switching the Old Testament edition to the Septuagint.
Read these verses in the Septuagint
This is a verse-level parallel only — the same verses exist in both the Hebrew and Greek Old Testaments. No word-level Hebrew↔Greek correspondence is claimed: the data carries no such alignment, so no Greek word is shown as this Hebrew word’s translation. Coverage is not total — the Septuagint omits the deuterocanon and renumbers the Psalms, so some Hebrew verses have no direct Greek parallel.
