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Pethor
Meaning: interpretation of dreams
This is a city identified with Pitru, on the west bank of the Euphrates River, a few miles south of the Hittite capital of Carchemish (Numbers 22:5, “which is by the river of the land of the children of [the god] Ammo”).
(See Balaam.)
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