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Balaam and the angel, painting from Gustav Jaeger, 1836. Balaam (/ ˈ b eɪ l æ m /; [1] Hebrew: בִּלְעָם, romanized: Bīlʿām), son of Beor, [2] was a biblical figure, a non-Israelite prophet and diviner who lived in Pethor, a place identified with the ancient city of Pitru, thought to have been located between the region of Iraq and northern Syria in what is now southeastern Turkey.
Beor (Hebrew: בְּעוֹר Bə‘ōr, "a burning") is a name which appears in relation to a king ("Bela son of Beor") and a diviner ("Balaam son of Beor"). Because the two names vary only by a single letter ( ם , -m , often added to the ends of names), scholars have hypothesized that the two refer to the same person.
The Deir 'Alla inscription or Balaam inscription, [1] numbered KAI 312, is a famous inscription discovered during a 1967 excavation in Deir 'Alla, Jordan. [2] It is currently at the Jordan Archaeological Museum .
Pethor or Petor (פְּתוֹר) in the Hebrew Bible is the home of the prophet Balaam. In the Book of Numbers, Pethor is described as being located "by the river of the land of the children of his people". [1] The Bible usually uses the name "the River" to the Euphrates; the rest of the description is somewhat vague and perhaps corrupted.
Ultra HD Blu-ray (4K Ultra HD, UHD-BD, or 4K Blu-ray) [2] [3] is a digital optical disc data storage format that is an enhanced variant of Blu-ray. [4] Ultra HD Blu-ray supports 4K UHD (3840 × 2160 pixel resolution) video at frame rates up to 60 progressive frames per second, [ 4 ] encoded using High-Efficiency Video Coding . [ 4 ]
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Beor may refer to: Beor (biblical figure), father of the prophet Balaam; Beor (village), a village in Punjab, Pakistan;
On a wall was written a story relating visions of the seer of the gods "Balʿam son of Beʿor" (Balaam son of Beor), who may be the same Balʿam son of Beʿor mentioned in Numbers 22–24 and in other passages of the Bible. The Deir Alla Balaam is associated with "a god bearing the name Shgr, 'Shadday' gods and goddesses, and with the goddess ...