Penton, Stephen, an English clergj'man and educator, was born in the first half of the 17th century, and was educated at Oxford University. In 1675 he became principal of St. Edmund Hall, Oxford ; af- terwards rector of Glympton. He died near the close of the 17th centur}'. He published Apparatus ad theo- logiam, in usum Academiaritm : (1) Generalis ; (2) Spe- cialis (Lond. 1688, 8vo). See Alliboue, Diet, of Bint, and Amer. Auih. vol. ii, s. v.
Pentz (Pencz or Pens), Georg, a celebrated German painter and engraver, was born at Nuremberg about 1500. He was first the pupil of Albrecht Diirer, and afterwards went to Itah', and studied the works of Raffaello at Rome, probablj' after the death of that great master. Pentz died about 1560. Little is known of his works as a painter. A few of them are in the Imperial Gallery at Vienna, and these are greatly ad- mired. His prints are numerous and highly esteemed. His drawing is correct, and there is none of that stiff- ness and formality which characterize the productions of his contemporaries. While in Italy he engraved, in conjunction with Marc' Antonio, several plates after the works of Raft'aelle. The Bible subjects from his own designs are : Two small prints, Joh Tempted and Esther before Ahatuerus; two, Judith in the Tent of Hohfrnes and Judith with his Head; two, the Judg- ment of Solomon and Solomon s Idolatry ; two. Lot and his Daughters and Susanna and the Elders; four of the History of Josepth (1544) ; seven of the History of To- hit (1543), considered among his best ; two of the Mer- ciful Samaritan and the Conversion of St. Paid (1545); The Four Evangelists. The seven works of ISIerc}' are circular; twenty-five plates of the life and miracles of Christ are very fine. See Spooner, Biog. Hist, of the Fine Arts, vol. ii, s. v.-
Penii'el. In the place of this name, see Peniel. The name Penuel (Heb. PcnueV , h)<'^*^. face of God; Sept. (I>ai'oii»'/X) occurs also as the name of two men.
1. First named of two sons of Hur, son of Judah. He was the father of Gedor (1 Chron. iv, 4). B.C. post 1658.
2. Last named of eleven sons of Shashak, son of Beriah ; a man of the tribe of Benjamin who dwelt in the city of Jerusalem (1 Chron. viii, 25). B.C. post 1612.
Pe'or (Heb. Peijr' , "n"Q, cleft, always with the art. when speaking of the mountain, but without it of the idol ; Sept. ^oywp), the name of a hill and of a heathen deity ; perhaps also of a town.
1. A mountain on the plateau of Moab, to the top of which Balak led Balaam that he might see the whole host of Israel and curse them (Numb, xxiii, 28). It appears to have been one of the ancient high places
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of Moab dedicated to the service of Baal (comp, xxii, 41 ; xxiii, 13, 27). Its position is described as " look- ing to tlie face of Jeshimon;" that is, the wilderness on either side of the Dead Sea. See Dp;sert. If it were in sight of the Araliah of Moal), on the east banlc of the Jordan, where the Israelites were then encamped, it must have been one of those pealcs on the western brow of the plateau which are seen between Heshbon and the banks of the Arnon (comp. Josephus, Ant. iv, 6, 4). Two other incidental notices of the sacred writ- ers tend to fix its position. Tlicre can be little doubt that it was connected with the town of Beth-Peor, which is described as "over against" the site of the Israelitish camp (Deut. iii, 29 ; comp. xxxiv, 6). See Beth-peok. Josephus says it was sixtj' stadia dis- tant from the camp {Ant. iv, 6, 4); Eusebius states that it lay above Livius (the ancient Beth-aran), six miles distant from it, and opposite Jericho ; and Je- rome mentions IMount Phogor as situated between Livias and Heshbon {Onomast. s. v. Fogor and Ara- both Moab). It would seem, therefore, that this moun- tain was one of those peaks on the south side of Wadj' Heshbon commanding the Jordan valley. A place named Fukhanih is mentioned in the list of towns south of Es-Salt in the appendix to the first edition of Dr. Robinson's Bib. Res. (vol. iii. Append, p. 169), and this is placed by Van de Velde at the head of the Wady Eshteh, eight miles north-east of Hesban. Professor Paine, however, recenth^ contends that it is one of the summits of the present Jebel Keba. See Pisgah.
2. "The matter of Peor" (S "im) mentioned in Numb. XXV, 18, and xxxi, IG; and the "iniquity of Peor" ( S """)) f'poken of b)' Joshua (xxii, 17), refer to the Midianitish deity Baal-peor, and not to the mountain. By following the counsels of Balaam, the Midianites seduced the Israelites to take part in their worsliip, and the licentious revels by which it appears to have been accompanied; and thus the}' brought upon them the divine vengeance (Numb, xxxi, IG; xxv, 1 sq.). The temple or slirine of Baal-peor probably stood on the top of the mountain ; and the town of Beth-peor may iiave been situated at its base. Gese- xvius {Thesaur.\i.l\\2 d) gives it as his opinion that Baal-peor derived its name from the mountain, not the mountain from him. See Baai.-peok.