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Thread #142385   Message #3284497
Posted By: BK
04-Jan-12 - 01:26 AM
Thread Name: BS: a trip to Pennsylvania
Subject: RE: BS: a trip to Pennsylvania
just googled mt pisgah - lots of 'em, in many U.S. states - and, apparently, Korea? go figger.. I only went 3 pages in.

"Pisgah" is of Biblical origin; from Wikipedia:
"Pisgah in Hebrew refers to a "high place" like the top of a mountain or to a "cleft". In translation, pisgah lost its meaning and became a mountain's proper name instead of being a term describing a "high place" or ridge". Thus the term refers to a geographic region; a collection of mountain summits.

In Deuteronomy, God commanded Moses to climb up and view the Promised Land from Mount Nebo: "Then Moses climbed Mount Nebo from the plains of Moab to the top of Pisgah, across from Jericho."

Cheers, BK