Baal Peorwas only Pi-Or, the Sun; as Priapus was a compound of Peor-Apis, contracted.
He was sometimes styled Peor singly; also Baal Peor; the same with whose rites the Israelites are so often [504]upbraided.
In the story of Baal-peor we have an awful picture of the idolatrous debauchery of the Moabites; and the Moabites were not so sunk in vice as the Canaanites.
It was while Israel "abode in Shittim," during the lifetime of Moses, that they were seduced by the Moabites to join in the idolatrous revels of Baal-peor and punished with the plague.
His Elvira, or the Worst not always True, from Calderon's No siempre lo Peor es Cierto.
Baal-peor and consecrated themselves to Bosheth and became abominable like that they loved.
Jerome says plainly that Baal-Peor was Priapus, which some derive from Peor Apis.
Kalisch also says Baal Peor "was probably the principle of generation par excellence, and at his festivals virgins were accustomed to yield themselves in his honor.
It was paid to the Phallus by the Asiatics, to Priapus by the Egyptians, Greeks, and Romans, to Baal-Peor by the Canaanites and idolatrous Jews.
But it is plain that in his last defeat Baal-Peor did not have a fair chance.
Peace was everywhere, and presently Baal-Peor was ashes.
In this kind No siempre lo peor es cierto, La Dama duende, Una casa con dos puertas mala es de guardar and Guárdate del agua mansa are almost unsurpassed.
The Midianites brought their sacrifices and slew them; the festival of Baal-peor was proclaimed.
Simeon may have been involved in the sin of Baal-peor more than the others and suffered proportionately.
The top of Peorthat looketh down upon Jeshimon, or the desert, is chosen.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "peor" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
