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Pis⋅gah

[piz-guh]
–noun
Mount, a mountain ridge of ancient Moab, now in Jordan, NE of the Dead Sea: from its summit (Mt. Nebo) Moses viewed the Promised Land. Deut. 34:1.
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Pisgah 
1650, name of the mountain east of the River Jordan, whence Moses was allowed to view the Promised Land he could not enter (Deut. iii.27); with figurative extension. From Heb., lit. "cleft."
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