Pisgah


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Pisgah

(ˈpɪzɡə)
n
(Bible) 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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Pis•gah

(ˈpɪz gə)

n.
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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They and their descendants wandered forty years in the desert, and then Moses, the gifted warrior, poet, statesman and philosopher, went up into Pisgah and met his mysterious fate.
On his face, as he went, was a look such as Moses might have worn on the summit of Pisgah.
Mountain bikers flock to Pisgah National Forest, just outside of Asheville, for its hundreds of miles of tight, twisting singletrack.
This time of year used to mean mud and muck for an old farm road turned trail skirting the base of Mount Pisgah.
Gwasanaeth cyhoeddus ar lan y bedd ym Mynwent Pisgah, Carmel am 11.00 o'r gloch.
Groups traverse throughout the Pisgah National Forest and Linville Gorge Wilderness areas (within the Pisgah).
Working in a nine-square-mile area around Mount Pisgah and the Wachusett Reservoir, the partners in this Tri-Town Landscape Protection (Tri-Town) Project are striving to save an ecologically-important and visually-stunning landscape from further development.
The two, pictured right, made off from the Bengal Lounge, on Pisgah Street, Kenfig Hill, after stepping out for a cigarette.
But Pisgah Chapel in Loughor on the western edge of Swansea - where Evan Roberts the charismatic leader first started teaching - now faces demolition.
* Pisgah National Forest: This 502,000-acre public forest, located in western NC, takes its name from the mountain on which Moses stood as he first glimpsed the promised land.
Introducing the reader to an expertly informed and soundly informative text, A Nature Guide To Northwest North Carolina provides a descriptive summary of Grandfather Mountain, Pisgah National Forest, Roan Mountain, Linville Gorge Wilderness Area, the Blue Ridge Parkway, Mount Jefferson State Park, the New River, and many more interesting places.