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Strong's #6604 - פְּתוֹר

Transliteration
Pᵉthôwr
Phonetics
peth-ore'
Root Word (Etymology)
of foreign origin
Parts of Speech
Proper Name Location
TWOT
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Definition   
Brown-Driver-Briggs'

Pethor = “soothsayer”

1) a town of Mesopotamia and the home of Balaam; located on a river; site unknown

Frequency Lists
Verse Results
KJV (2)
Numbers 1
Deuteronomy 1
HCS (0)
HCS (2)
Numbers 1
Deuteronomy 1
BSB (2)
Numbers 1
Deuteronomy 1
ESV (2)
Numbers 1
Deuteronomy 1
WEB (2)
Numbers 1
Deuteronomy 1
Brown-Driver-Briggs Expanded Definition
 מְּתוֺר proper name, of a location home of Balsam; — with ה locative מְּת֫וֺרָה Numbers 22:5, φαθουρα, A Βαθουρα; אֲרַם׳פ נַהֲרַיִם Deuteronomy 23:5, but omitted ׳פᵐ5; — compare Assyrian Pitru (on western bank of upper Euphrase) Schr KGF 220; COT Numbers 22:5 Dl Pa 269 Dr Hastings DB; Egyptian Pe-d-ru WMM As.u.Eur:291.

[מָּתוֺת] see פתת.


Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew and English Lexicon, Unabridged, Electronic Database.All rights reserved. Used by permission. BibleSoft.com
Gesenius' Hebrew and Chaldee Definition

פְּתוֹר (“interpretation of dreams,” perhaps i.q. בֵּית פְּתוֹר house, or habitation of the ὀνειρόπολοι [“perhaps i.q. Ch. פְּתוֹרָא table”]), [Pethor], pr.n. of a town on the Euphrates, where Balaam dwelt, Numbers 22:5 (compare 23:7 ); Deuteronomy 23:5.


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List of Word Forms
מִפְּת֛וֹר מפתור פְּ֠תוֹרָה פתורה mip·pə·ṯō·wr mippeTor mippəṯōwr pə·ṯō·w·rāh Petorah pəṯōwrāh
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