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PETHOR.—Mentioned in Num_22:5 and Deu_23:4 as the home of Balaam, in N. Mesopotamia, when he was called by Balak to curse Israel. With this indication agrees the repeated statement by king Shalmaneser ii. of Assyria regarding a certain city which he calls Pitru, that it lay on the river Sâgûr (modern Sâjûr), near its junction with the Euphrates. Thus Pethor would seem to have lain a little south of Carchemish, on the west of the Euphrates.
J. F. M‘Curdy.