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•PIPE (1 Samuel 10:5; 1 Kings 1:40; Isaiah 5:12; 30:29). The Hebrew word halil, so rendered, means “bored through,” and is the name given to various kinds of wind instruments, as the fife, flute, Pan-pipes, etc. In Amos 6:5 this word is rendered “instrument of music.” This instrument is mentioned also in the New Testament (Matthew 11:17; 1 Corinthians 14:7). It is still used in Palestine, and is, as in ancient times, made of different materials, as reed, copper, bronze, etc.
•PIRAM like a wild ass, a king of Jarmuth, a royal city of the Canaanites, who was conquered and put to death by Joshua (10:3, 23, 26).
•PIRATHON prince, or summit, a place “in the land of Ephraim” (Judges 12:15), now Fer’on, some 10 miles south-west of Shechem. This was the home of Abdon the judge.
•PIRATHONITE (1.) Abdon, the son of Hillel, so called, Judges 12:13, 15.
(2.) Benaiah the Ephraimite (2 Samuel 23:30), one of David’s thirty heroes.
•PISGAH a part, a mountain summit in the land of Moab, in the territory of Reuben, where Balak offered up sacrifices (Numbers 21:20; 23:14), and from which Moses viewed the promised land (Deuteronomy 3:27). It is probably the modern Jebel Siaghah. (See NEBO.)
•PISIDIA a district in Asia Minor, to the north of Pamphylia. The Taurus range of mountains extends through it. Antioch, one of its chief cities, was twice visited by Paul (Acts 13:14; 14:21-24).
•PISON Babylonian, the current, broad-flowing, one of the “four heads” into which the river which watered the garden of Eden was divided (Genesis 2:11). Some identify it with the modern Phasis, others with the