and is the path of covetousness, uncleanness, and idolatry, sins which he was either guilty of himself, or taught, advised, and seduced others to; see Re 2:14. The Vulgate Latin version reads "Balaam [out of] Bosor", taking "Bosor" for the name of a place, of which "Balaam" was; but not "Bosor", but "Pethor", was the place of Balaam's residence, Nu 22:5.
The Arabic and Ethiopic versions supply, as we do, "the son of Bosor"; and the Syriac version reads, "the son of Beor", as in Nu 22:5; for Beor and "Bosor" are the same names; the "sheva" being pronounced by "o", as it is by "oa" in "Boanerges", and the "ain" by "s".
Moreover, the letters u and e are sometimes used for one another, as in Nau and Nae, Ura and era, and so e and v, especially in the Chaldean dialect; and Peter now being at Babylon in Chaldea, see 1Pe 5:13; it is no wonder that he so pronounced.