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

The water that flows into the North Fork Reservoir, which serves Asheville and the towns of Black Mountain and Swannanoa, always ran clear and clean from its headwaters high in Pisgah National Forest.

From Salon

More than 100 residences in Union Township in Butler County were hit, authorities said, and there were reports of destruction from Green Township, Westchester, Pisgah and Mason.

From Seattle Times

County has hosted many intentional communities, from the Christian communards of Pisgah Grande near Simi Valley to the Krotona Theosophists in Beachwood Canyon, as well as the Manson Family’s Spahn Ranch, creating a constellation of dreams and nightmares around the city’s fragmented self.

From Los Angeles Times

Donella Pressley fled with her two young daughters, Cordelia and Elena, and an armful of family pictures just before a branch of the swelling river engulfed her house off Pisgah Drive.

From Washington Post

North Carolina’s Max Patch had been suffering from a litany of ills — hikers pilfering fence posts for firewood, blocking emergency vehicle access with their cars and disrupting bird nesting sites, among other violations — before the Pisgah National Forest banned camping on the mountain until June 30, 2023.

From Washington Post