Pisgah

[ piz-guh ]

/ ˈpɪz gə /

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.

Example sentences from the Web for pisgah

He was now upon a Pisgah height, from which in imagination he could look forth and see his Land of Promise.

Christopher Columbus, Complete |Filson Young
Government kept Moses out of Canaan, but grace conducted him to Pisgah's top.

The Great Commission |C. H. (Charles Henry) Mackintosh
Mount Pisgah rises high above, crowned with the chimneys of the machine-house of an inclined-plane railway.

America, Volume I (of 6) |Joel Cook
The day was fine and we traveled about thirty-eight miles and camped on the prairie about eight miles from Pisgah.

William Clayton's Journal |William Clayton

I think I like Pisgah better from this angle than from any other.

A Tar-Heel Baron |Mabell Shippie Clarke Pelton

Pisgah

/ (ˈpɪzɡə) /

Mount Pisgah Old Testament the mountain slopes to the northeast of the Dead Sea, from one of which, Mount Nebo, Moses viewed Canaan