Pisgah

[ piz-guh ]

/ ˈpɪz gə /

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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Example sentences from the Web for pisgah

He was now upon a Pisgah height, from which in imagination he could look forth and see his Land of Promise.
Christopher Columbus, Complete|Filson Young
Government kept Moses out of Canaan, but grace conducted him to Pisgah's top.
The Great Commission|C. H. (Charles Henry) Mackintosh
Mount Pisgah rises high above, crowned with the chimneys of the machine-house of an inclined-plane railway.
America, Volume I (of 6)|Joel Cook
The day was fine and we traveled about thirty-eight miles and camped on the prairie about eight miles from Pisgah.
William Clayton's Journal|William Clayton

I think I like Pisgah better from this angle than from any other.
A Tar-Heel Baron|Mabell Shippie Clarke Pelton

British Dictionary definitions for pisgah

Pisgah

/ (ˈpɪzɡə) /

noun

Mount Pisgah Old Testament the mountain slopes to the northeast of the Dead Sea, from one of which, Mount Nebo, Moses viewed Canaan

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