pisgahEtymologyFrom Biblical Hebrew פסגּה (Piṣgāh), a name for the peak of Mount Nebo, meaning literally “top of a mountain; summit”.nameThe name of a mountain in the Bible. Usually refers to biblical Mount Pisgah or Mount Nebo.“—With swimming glance, Like him who erst from Pisgah's cliff descried The unenter'd land of promise,—he survey'd That emerald shore where slept in hallow'd graves His ancestors, where rose in beauteous strength The city of his joy,—”Pisgah National Forest in North Carolina, United States.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.nounA glimpse of a distant sight; an overview of a situation; a position that affords a view.“Although the development of this work, complex and compelling in its own right, lies beyond the scope of the present study, a “Pisgah view” of Billy Budd[…] discloses its presentation, among many other things, of a sharply drawn retrospective allegory of Melville’s rhetorical career.”