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单词 Pisgah
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Pisgah

/ˈpɪzɡə/
noun
1Attributive Designating a faint view or glimpse of something unobtainable or distant, especially in Pisgah sight, Pisgah view.
  • Used with allusion to Deuteronomy 3:27, in which Moses is allowed to view the Promised Land from the peak of Mount Nebo..
2A point affording an overview or glimpse of a current or future situation. Also in †Pisgah-hill.

Origin

Mid 17th century; earliest use found in Thomas Fuller (1607/8–1661), Church of England clergyman. From Pisgah (biblical Hebrew Piṣgāh), lit. ‘peak, height, cliff’, the name of the peak of Mount Nebo, from which Moses saw the Promised Land (Deuteronomy 3:27).

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