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pisgah
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What does pisgah mean?
noun
- (figuratively) A glimpse of a distant sight; an overview of a situation; a position that affords a view.
proper noun
- The name of a mountain in the Bible. Usually refers to biblical Mount Pisgah or Mount Nebo.
- Pisgah National Forest in North Carolina, United States.
More meanings (14)
proper noun
- A town in Jackson County, Alabama, United States.
- An unincorporated community in Gilmer County, Georgia.
- A city in Harrison County, Iowa.
- An unincorporated community in Morgan County, Illinois.
- An unincorporated community in Woodford County, Kentucky.
- An unincorporated community in Charles County, Maryland.
- An unincorporated community in Rankin County, Mississippi.
- An unincorporated community in Cooper County, Missouri.
- An unincorporated community in Randolph County, North Carolina.
- An unincorporated community in Butler County, Ohio.
- A ghost town in Navarro County, Texas.
- An unincorporated community in Preston County, West Virginia.
- Willoughby State Forest in Vermont, United States.
- Former name of Killington Peak, Vermont, United States.
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Are you so afraid lest peering from this high Pisgah, between Philistine and Amalekite, we sight the Promised Land?
No longer is it possible as in earlier days for an intellectual prophet to survey from a Pisgah height all the Promised Land.
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In electricity he was a pioneer of the new advances, and happily lived to obtain at least a Pisgah view of the great future which evidently lies before that pregnant force.