פִּסְגָּה
Pisgah
BDB lists 2 entries for ‘Pisgah’ fuller range ↓
Full lexicon entry — Brown-Driver-Briggs (BDB)
From Brown-Driver-Briggs (BDB)
Where this word appears
Grammar key — what these labels mean
Noun type
- Proper
- A name of a specific person, place, or people (e.g. Abraham, Zion, Israel).
Every verse where H6449 appears — 8 distinct verses across 3 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 21:20 הַ/פִּסְגָּ֑ה ptcl def.art + n Proper and from Bamoth to the valley that is in the field of Moab, to the top of Pisgah, which looks down on the desert.
- Numbers 23:14 הַ/פִּסְגָּ֑ה ptcl def.art + n Proper He took him into the field of Zophim, to the top of Pisgah, and built seven altars, and offered up a bull and a ram on every altar.
Deuteronomy 4 verses
- Deuteronomy 3:17 הַ/פִּסְגָּ֖ה ptcl def.art + n Proper the Arabah also, and the Jordan and the border [of it], from Chinnereth even to the sea of the Arabah, the Salt Sea, under the slopes of Pisgah eastward.
- Deuteronomy 3:27 הַ/פִּסְגָּ֗ה ptcl def.art + n Proper Go up to the top of Pisgah, and lift up your eyes westward, and northward, and southward, and eastward, and see with your eyes: for you shall not go over this Jordan.
- Deuteronomy 4:49 הַ/פִּסְגָּֽה ptcl def.art + n Proper and all the Arabah beyond the Jordan eastward, even to the sea of the Arabah, under the slopes of Pisgah.
- Deuteronomy 34:1 הַ/פִּסְגָּ֔ה ptcl def.art + n Proper Moses went up from the plains of Moab to Mount Nebo, to the top of Pisgah, that is over against Jericho. Yahweh shown him all the land of Gilead, to Dan,
Joshua 2 verses
- Joshua 12:3 הַ/פִּסְגָּֽה ptcl def.art + n Proper and the Arabah to the sea of Chinneroth, eastward, and to the sea of the Arabah, even the Salt Sea, eastward, the way to Beth-jeshimoth; and on the south, under the slopes of Pisgah:
- Joshua 13:20 הַ/פִּסְגָּ֖ה ptcl def.art + n Proper and Beth Peor, and the slopes of Pisgah, and Beth-jeshimoth,
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.
“Pisgah” is the headline sense of the Hebrew name פסגה (Piçgâh). It clusters heavily in Deuteronomy, which alone accounts for 50% of its uses. It turns up in 8 verses across 3 books, an uncommon footprint. First canonically at Numbers 21:20, it enters the text early. The sections below give every occurrence and version rendering.
Gloss history
Strong's 1890 vs modern scholarship
About this word
Strong's H6449 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 →
- 8
- distinct verses
- The word appears in 8 distinct verses.
- 3 / 39
- OT books
- The word appears in 3 of 39 Old Testament books.
- #2,625
- by frequency
- Top 5000 most frequent Hebrew words (rank 2,625 of 8,640 Hebrew words by occurrence).
View all 8 occurrences in the concordance →
Most concentrated in
- Deuteronomy 4 verses 50%
- Numbers 2 verses 25%
- Joshua 2 verses 25%
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 8 distinct verses.
- Torah (Pentateuch) 6 verses · 75%
- Prophets (Nevi'im) 2 verses · 25%
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: Pisgah 5×
- American Standard Version: Pisgah 5×
- Berean Standard Bible: Pisgah 8×
- unfoldingWord Literal Text: Pisgah 8×
King James Version Public Domain
Renders H6449 across 5 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
American Standard Version Public Domain
Renders H6449 across 5 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Berean Standard Bible Public Domain
Renders H6449 across 8 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
unfoldingWord Literal Text CC BY-SA 4.0
Renders H6449 across 8 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.
- Pisgah = "cleft"
- mountain in Moab on the northeast shore of the Dead Sea; site uncertain
Word origin
n.pr.mont. Pisgah (prob. cleft, from a natural feature of mt.; Dr Dt 3:17);—always הַפּ׳: רֹאשׁ הַפּ׳ Nu 21:20; 23:14; Dt 3:27; 34:1; אַשְׁדֹּת הַפּ׳ 3:17; 4:19; Jos 12:3; 13:20; mt. in Moab, on NE. shore of Dead Sea, exact loc. unknown (cf. Fešḫa as a cliff on NW. shore, v. Di Nu 21:20); Φασγα Dt 3:17 +, τ. λαξευτήν 4:49, Λελαξευμένου Nu 21:20 +.
— Brown-Driver-Briggs (Oxford 1906, public domain), digitized via Sefaria, supplemented by the OpenScriptures HebrewLexicon (CC BY 4.0). See Sources.
Derived from פסג (pâçag) (H6448) — to pass.
Jastrow Dictionary
A second Hebrew/Aramaic lexicon for comparison, covering Aramaic and post-biblical (Talmudic, Targumic, Midrashic) usage that the biblical-Hebrew BDB does not. Matched by lemma rather than by Strong’s number, so a lemma may carry more than one Jastrow headword (shown separately below), and the entries cover usage well beyond the Bible.
פִּסְגָּה
- (preced. wds., v. פְּסִיגָה)
- 1. branch, bough, opp. to אשכול the trunk with the grape clusters. the trunk with the grape clusters.
- 2. (b. h.) pr. n. Pisgah, the summit of Mount Nebo. Sifré Deut. 357 (ref. to XXXIV, 1) מה פ׳ זו מופרשת מן האשכול ואינה מופרשת וכ׳ as the branch is separate from the trunk, yet not detached, so was Moses’ grave &c., v. תָאַם; Yalk. ib. 963.
A Dictionary of the Targumim, the Talmud Babli and Yerushalmi, and the Midrashic Literature (Marcus Jastrow; London, Luzac, 1903) — Public Domain. Digitized via Sefaria. Digitized via Sefaria. Full attribution on Sources.
Forms in the corpus
The 5 distinct written forms H6449 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| הַ/פִּסְגָּ֑ה | Noun, Proper | Numbers 21:20 | 2 |
| הַ/פִּסְגָּ֖ה | Noun, Proper | Deuteronomy 3:17 | 2 |
| הַ/פִּסְגָּֽה | Noun, Proper | Deuteronomy 4:49 | 2 |
| הַ/פִּסְגָּ֔ה | Noun, Proper | Deuteronomy 34:1 | 1 |
| הַ/פִּסְגָּ֗ה | Noun, Proper | Deuteronomy 3:27 | 1 |
Bible dictionary
Public-domain dictionary articles matched to this entry by name (Pisgah). 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
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.)
Smith's Bible Dictionary · William Smith, 1863
(section, i.e. peak), (Numbers 21:20; 23:14; 3:27; 34:1) a mountain range or district, the same as or a part of, that called the mountains of Abarim. Comp. (32:49) with Deuteronomy 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]
Hitchcock's Bible Names Dictionary · Roswell D. Hitchcock, 1869
hill; eminence; fortress
Classic public-domain reference works; full attribution on Sources.
Septuagint verse parallels
This word appears in 8 verses that also exist in the Greek Old Testament (Septuagint), out of the 8 Hebrew verses it occurs in. You can read those verses in Greek by switching the Old Testament edition to the Septuagint.
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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.
