Pethor

Pee´thor

A place in Mesopotamia from which Balaam was called by Barak, king of Moab, to curse Israel (Num 22:5; Deut 23:4). Mentioned in the annals of Pharaoh Thutmose III of Egypt and King Shalmaneser III of Assyria, it was a little south of Carchemish, on the west side of the Euphrates on the Sagur River. It may be modern Tell Ahmar.