מוֹאָב

A second Hebrew/Aramaic lexicon for comparison, covering Aramaic and post-biblical (Talmudic, Targumic, Midrashic) usage that the biblical-Hebrew BDB does not. Matched by lemma rather than by Strong’s number, so a lemma may carry more than one Jastrow headword (shown separately below), and the entries cover usage well beyond the Bible.

A Dictionary of the Targumim, the Talmud Babli and Yerushalmi, and the Midrashic Literature (Marcus Jastrow; London, Luzac, 1903) — Public Domain. Digitized via Sefaria. Digitized via Sefaria. Full attribution on Sources.

The 29 distinct written forms H4124 takes in the Hebrew Bible, most frequent first — each parse links to that state’s occurrences in the concordance. Hebrew forms include their vowel points and cantillation, so a single lemma takes many written forms.

Form	Parsing	Example	Uses
מוֹאָ֔ב	Noun, Proper	Amos 2:1	47
מוֹאָ֖ב	Noun, Proper	Deuteronomy 2:18	25
מוֹאָב֙	Noun, Proper	Deuteronomy 34:1	21
מוֹאָ֑ב	Noun, Proper	Deuteronomy 1:5	19
מוֹאָֽב	Noun, Proper	Deuteronomy 2:8	18
מוֹאָ֛ב	Noun, Proper	2 Kings 13:20	9
מוֹאָ֗ב	Noun, Proper	1 Samuel 22:3	7
לְ/מוֹאָ֖ב	Noun, Proper	1 Chronicles 4:22	4
מוֹאָ֜ב	Noun, Proper	Jeremiah 48:11	4
לְ/מוֹאָ֔ב	Noun, Proper	Isaiah 16:11	3
בְּ/מוֹאָ֣ב	Noun, Proper	1 Samuel 14:47	2
וּ/מִ/מּוֹאָב֙	Noun, Proper	1 Chronicles 18:11	2
מוֹאָ֣ב	Noun, Proper	Isaiah 15:2	2
מוֹאָ֤ב	Noun, Proper	Psalms 60:8	2
מוֹאָ֥ב	Noun, Proper	2 Kings 3:22	2
בְּ/מוֹאָ֔ב	Noun, Proper	Amos 2:2	1
וּ/בְ/מוֹאָ֖ב	Noun, Proper	Ezekiel 25:11	1
וּ/לְ/מוֹאָ֥ב	Noun, Proper	Jeremiah 48:31	1
וּ/מוֹאָ֔ב	Noun, Proper	Daniel 11:41	1
וּ/מוֹאָ֛ב	Noun, Proper	2 Chronicles 20:23	1
וּ/מוֹאָ֜ב	Noun, Proper	2 Chronicles 20:10	1
וּ/מוֹאָב֙	Noun, Proper	Isaiah 11:14	1
לְ/מוֹאָ֡ב	Noun, Proper	Jeremiah 48:1	1
לְ/מוֹאָ֣ב	Noun, Proper	Isaiah 15:5	1
לְ/מוֹאָב֙	Noun, Proper	Jeremiah 48:36	1
מוֹאָ֞ב	Noun, Proper	Zephaniah 2:9	1
מוֹאָ֧ב	Noun, Proper	2 Chronicles 20:22	1
מוֹאָב֒	Noun, Proper	Jeremiah 48:2	1
מוֹאָב֩	Noun, Proper	2 Chronicles 20:1	1

Other BDB entries built from the same root as H4124, grouped by Strong’s listed origin. These share a root / origin per the lexicon — not necessarily a shared meaning. Each links to that word’s own entry.

Derives from

• אב ʼâb H1 father

Shares the same root

• אב ʼab H2 father
• אוב ʼôwb H178 water skin bottle

Proper names from this root

People and places named from this root — a name, not an additional meaning of the word.

• אבי ʼĂbîy H21 Abi
• אביאל ʼĂbîyʼêl H22 Abiel
• אביאסף ʼĂbîyʼâçâph H23 Abiasaph
• אבי גבעון ʼĂbîy Gibʻôwn H25 father of Gibeon
• אביגיל ʼĂbîygayil H26 Abigail
• אבידן ʼĂbîydân H27 Abidan
• אבידע ʼĂbîydâʻ H28 Abida
• אביה ʼĂbîyâh H29 Abijah
• אביהוא ʼĂbîyhûwʼ H30 Abihu
• אביהוד ʼĂbîyhûwd H31 Ahihud
• אביהיל ʼĂbîyhayil H32 Abihail
• אביטוב ʼĂbîyṭûwb H36 Abitub
• אביטל ʼĂbîyṭâl H37 Abital
• אבים ʼĂbîyâm H38 Abijam
• אבימאל ʼĂbîymâʼêl H39 Abimael
• אבימלך ʼĂbîymelek H40 Abimelech
• אבינדב ʼĂbîynâdâb H41 Abinadab
• אבינעם ʼĂbîynôʻam H42 Abinoam
• אביעזר ʼĂbîyʻezer H44 Abiezer
• אביעלבון ʼĂbîy-ʻalbôwn H45 Abialbon
• אבירם ʼĂbîyrâm H48 Abiram
• אבישג ʼĂbîyshag H49 Abishag
• אבישוע ʼĂbîyshûwaʻ H50 Abishua
• אבישור ʼĂbîyshûwr H51 Abishur
• מואבי Môwʼâbîy H4125 Moabite

+6 more proper names from this root (not shown).

Compare all same-root words → Showing 4 of 35 — not the complete family. 31 of the same-root words are proper names (people or places). They share a root, not necessarily a meaning.

Public-domain dictionary articles matched to this entry by name (Moab). A biblical name can be shared by more than one person or place, so an article may treat several.

Easton's Bible Dictionary · M. G. Easton, 1897

The seed of the father, or, according to others, the desirable land, the eldest son of Lot (Gen. 19:37), of incestuous birth.

(2.) Used to denote the people of Moab (Num. 22:3-14; Judg. 3:30; 2 Sam. 8:2; Jer. 48:11, 13).

(3.) The land of Moab (Jer. 48:24), called also the "country of Moab" (Ruth 1:2, 6; 2:6), on the east of Jordan and the Dead Sea, and south of the Arnon (Num. 21:13, 26). In a wider sense it included the whole region that had been occupied by the Amorites. It bears the modern name of Kerak.

In the Plains of Moab, opposite Jericho (Num. 22:1; 26:63; Josh. 13:32), the children of Israel had their last encampment before they entered the land of Canaan. It was at that time in the possession of the Amorites (Num. 21:22). "Moses went up from the plains of Moab unto the mountain of Nebo, to the top of Pisgah," and "died there in the land of Moab, according to the word of the Lord" (Deut. 34:5, 6). "Surely if we had nothing else to interest us in the land of Moab, the fact that it was from the top of Pisgah, its noblest height, this mightiest of the prophets looked out with eye undimmed upon the Promised Land; that it was here on Nebo, its loftiest mountain, that he died his solitary death; that it was here, in the valley over against Beth-peor, he found his mysterious sepulchre, we have enough to enshrine the memory in our hearts."

Smith's Bible Dictionary · William Smith, 1863

(of his father), Mo'abites. Moab was the son of the Lot's eldest daughter, the progenitor of the Moabites. Zoar was the cradle of the race of Lot. From this centre the brother tribes spread themselves. The Moabites first inhabited the rich highlands which crown the eastern side of the chasm of the Dead Sea, extending as far north as the mountain of Gilead, from which country they expelled the Emims, the original inhabitants, (2:11) but they themselves were afterward driven southward by the warlike Amorites, who had crossed the Jordan, and were confined to the country south of the river Arnon, which formed their northern boundary. (Numbers 21:13; Judges 11:18) The territory occupied by Moab at the period of its greatest extent, before the invasion of the Amorites, divided itself naturally into three distinct and independent portions:-- (1) The enclosed corner or canton south of the Arnon was the "field of Moab." (Ruth 1:1,2,6) etc. (2) The more open rolling country north of the Arnon, opposite Jericho, and up to the hills of Gilead, was the "land of Moab." (1:5; 32:49) etc. (3) The sunk district in the tropical depths of the Jordan valley. (Numbers 22:1) etc. The Israelites, in entering the promised land, did not pass through the Moabites, (Judges 11:18) but conquered the Amorites, who occupied the country from which the Moabites had been so lately expelled. After the conquest of Canaan the relations of Moab with Israel were of a mixed character, sometimes warlike and sometimes peaceable. With the tribe of Benjamin they had at least one severe struggle, in union with their kindred the Ammonites. (Judges 3:12-30) The story of Ruth, on the other hand, testifies to the existence of a friendly intercourse between Moab and Bethlehem, one of the towns of Judah. By his descent from Ruth, David may be said to have had Moabite blood in his veins. He committed his parents to the protection of the king of Moab, when hard pressed by Saul. (1 Samuel 22:3,4) But here all friendly relations stop forever. The next time the name is mentioned is in the account of David's war, who made the Moabites tributary. (2 Samuel 8:2; 1 Chronicles 18:2) At the disruption of the kingdom Moab seems to have fallen to the northern realm. At the death of Ahab the Moabites refused to pay tribute and asserted their independence, making war upon the kingdom of Judah. (2 Chronicles 22:1) ... As a natural consequence of the late events, Israel, Judah and Edom united in an attack on Moab, resulting in the complete overthrow of the Moabites. Falling back into their own country, they were followed and their cities and farms destroyed. Finally, shut up within the walls of his own capital, the king, Mesha, in the sight of the thousands who covered the sides of that vast amphitheater, killed and burnt his child as a propitiatory sacrifice to the cruel gods of his country. Isaiah, chs. (Isaiah 15,16,25:10-12) predicts the utter annihilation of the Moabites; and they are frequently denounced by the subsequent prophets. For the religion of the Moabites see Chemosh; Molech; Peor. See also Tristram's "Land of Moab." Present condition.--(Noldeke says that the extinction of the Moabites was about A.D. 200, at the time when the Yemen tribes Galib and Gassara entered the eastern districts of the Jordan. Since A.D. 536 the last trace of the name Moab, which lingered in the town of Kir-moab, has given place to Kerak, its modern name. Over the whole region are scattered many ruins of ancient cities; and while the country is almost bare of larger vegetation, it is still a rich pasture-ground, with occasional fields of grain. The land thus gives evidence of its former wealth and power.--ED.)

Hitchcock's Bible Names Dictionary · Roswell D. Hitchcock, 1869

of his father

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This word appears in 135 verses that also exist in the Greek Old Testament (Septuagint), out of the 158 Hebrew verses it occurs in. You can read those verses in Greek by switching the Old Testament edition to the Septuagint.

Read these verses in the Septuagint

• Genesis 19:37
• Exodus 15:15
• Numbers 21:11
• Deuteronomy 1:5
• Joshua 13:32
• Judges 3:12
• Ruth 1:1
• 1 Samuel 12:9
• 2 Samuel 8:2
• 1 Kings 11:7
• 2 Kings 1:1
• 1 Chronicles 4:22

This is a verse-level parallel only — the same verses exist in both the Hebrew and Greek Old Testaments. No word-level Hebrew↔Greek correspondence is claimed: the data carries no such alignment, so no Greek word is shown as this Hebrew word’s translation. Coverage is not total — the Septuagint omits the deuterocanon and renumbers the Psalms, so some Hebrew verses have no direct Greek parallel.