Pisgah

American  

[piz-guh] / ˈpɪz gə /

noun

1. Mount Pisgah, a mountain ridge of ancient Moab, now in Jordan, northeast of the Dead Sea: from its summit Mount NeboMt. Nebo Moses viewed the Promised Land. Deuteronomy 34:1.

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Pisgah British  

/ ˈpɪzɡə /

noun

1. 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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Etymology

Origin of Pisgah

From Hebrew Pisgāh “height, peak”

Example Sentences

“It actually looked like a field at a music festival,” Marra said of the popular Appalachian Trail campsite, located in North Carolina’s Pisgah National Forest.

From Washington Post • Aug. 22, 2021

Officials said public boating access to Smith and Pisgah bays will be impacted.

From Washington Times • Jan. 31, 2020

The Pentecostal minister and his church in Singapore bought Pisgah chapel in Loughor, Swansea, in 2014.

From BBC • Apr. 25, 2019

They were surrounded by forests “full of woods and thickets,” and they lacked the kind of view Moses had on Mount Pisgah, after successfully leading the Israelites to Canaan.

From Salon • Nov. 22, 2018

Such was the unfortunate fate of Richard Salinas, who in 1990 went hiking with a friend in Pisgah National Forest in North Carolina.

From "A Walk in the Woods" by Bill Bryson