Wikipedia's first sentence called it “father of balaam and is considered a prophet by judaism”. Today it says “name which appears in relation to a king”.
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Beor ( Bə‘ōr , "a burning") is a name which appears in relation to a king ("Bela son of Beor") and a diviner ("Balaam son of Beor"). Because the two names vary only by a single letter ( , -m , often added to the ends of names), scholars have hypothesized that the two refer to the same person. In a list of kings of Edom, Genesis records that a "Bela ( ) son of Beor" was one of the kings of Edom who reigned "before there reigned any king over the children of Israel." Bela son of Beor is listed as the first of eight kings. The same information in Genesis is repeated in Chronicles. "Balaam ( ) son of Beor" appears in a well-known story in Numbers, where he is asked to curse the Israelites but repeatedly blesses them instead. Later, he is killed for tempting the Israelites into sin. He is mentioned in passing in Deuteronomy, in a passage which repeats a synopsis of earlier biblical stories. Beor the father of Balaam is considered a prophet by Judaism . The Talmud says in Baba Bathra 15b, "Seven prophets prophesied to the heathen, namely, Balaam and his father, Job, Eliphaz the Temanite, Bildad the Shuhite, Zophar the Naamathite, and Elihu the son of Barachel the Buzite." In 2 Peter 2:15, Beor is called Bosor.1 Studies in Aramaic Inscriptions and Onomastics .
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The opening as it stood in 2010
Beor is the father of Balaam and is considered a prophet by Judaism ; the Talmud says in Baba Bathra 15b "Seven prophets prophesied to the heathen, namely, Balaam and his father, Job, Eliphaz the Temanite, Bildad the Shuhite, Zophar the Naamathite, and Elihu the son of Barachel the Buzite" In 2 Peter 2:15 Beor is called Bosor. v t e
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Beor ( Bə‘ōr , "a burning") is described as the father of Balaam and is considered a prophet by Judaism ; the Talmud says in Baba Bathra 15b "Seven prophets prophesied to the heathen, namely, Balaam and his father, Job, Eliphaz the Temanite, Bildad the Shuhite, Zophar the Naamathite, and Elihu the son of Barachel the Buzite" In 2 Peter 2:15 Beor is called Bosor. Beor is also the name of the father of Bela , first King of Edom in the Book of Genesis (Genesis 36:31). v t e
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Biblical figure Beor ( Bə‘ōr , "a burning") is a name which appears in relation to a king ("Bela son of Beor") and a diviner ("Balaam son of Beor"). Because the two names vary only by a single letter ( ם , -m , often added to the ends of names), scholars have hypothesized that the two refer to the same person. Studies in Aramaic Inscriptions and Onomastics .
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Biblical figure Beor and Balaam in the Nuremberg Chronicle Beor ( Hebrew : בְּעוֹר Bə‘ōr , "a burning"; Old Aramaic : 𐤁𐤏𐤓 , romanized: Bᵊʿôr ) is a name which appears in relation to a king ("Bela son of Beor") and a diviner ("Balaam son of Beor"). Because the two names vary only by a single letter ( ם , -m , often added to the ends of names), scholars have hypothesized that the two refer to the same person. Studies in Aramaic Inscriptions and Onomastics .
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father of balaam and is considered a prophet by judaism
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name which appears in relation to a king
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