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2. Balaam - Wikipedia

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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 character, 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.

3. Deir Alla inscription - Wikipedia

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   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 .

4. Beor (biblical figure) - Wikipedia

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   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.

5. Deir Alla - Wikipedia

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   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 ...

6. Pethor - Wikipedia

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   Pethor or Petor (פְּתוֹר) in the Hebrew Bible is the home of the prophet (or diviner) 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 River usually refers in the Bible to the Euphrates River, the rest of the description is somewhat vague and perhaps ...

7. Beor - Wikipedia

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   Beor may refer to: Beor (biblical figure), father of the prophet Balaam; Beor (village), a village in Punjab, Pakistan;

8. Balak - Wikipedia

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   Balak tried to engage Balaam the son of Beor for the purpose of cursing the migrating Israelite community. [2] On his journey to meet the princes of Moab, Balaam is stopped by an angel of the Lord after beating his female donkey. The Lord then "opened the mouth of the donkey" to tell him there was an angel with a drawn sword facing him.

9. Peor - Wikipedia

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   Peor (Hebrew: פְּעוֹר ‎, Modern: Peʿōr, Tiberian: Pŏʿōr, Biblical: Paġor) meaning "opening", may refer to: . The name of a mountain peak, mentioned in Numbers 23:28, to which Balak, king of Moab led Balaam in his fourth and final attempt to induce Balaam to pronounce a curse upon the Israelites as they were passing through Balak's Land to the Promised Land.