HEBREW / ARAMAIC · H6604
פְּתוֹר
pe.tor — Pethor
§ Pethor = "soothsayer" a town of Mesopotamia and the home of Balaam; located on a river
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Pethor
Original Hebrew / Aramaic / Greek connected to this term
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Historical dictionary entry
Interpretation of dreams, identified with Pitru, on the west bank of the Euphrates, a few miles south of the Hittite capital of Carchemish (Num. 22:5, “which is by the river of the land of the children of [the god] Ammo”). (See BALAAM.)
Scripture references
Source: Easton’s Bible Dictionary (1897). Historical dictionary wording reflects the scholarship and language of its era.