פַּ֫חַת מוֹאָב
Pahath-moab
BDB lists 3 entries for ‘Pahath-moab’ fuller range ↓
Full lexicon entry — Brown-Driver-Briggs (BDB)
From Brown-Driver-Briggs (BDB)
Where this word appears
Grammar key — what these labels mean
Part of speech
- Noun
- A naming word — a person, place, thing, or idea.
Noun type
- Proper
- A name of a specific person, place, or people (e.g. Abraham, Zion, Israel).
Every verse where H6355 appears in the Book of Nehemiah — 3 distinct verses. Click any verse to open its interlinear word-by-word view. Verse text shown in the World English Bible for context — . Each verse’s Hebrew form is shown with its reference; the English is not keyword-highlighted, since the data carries no word-level English alignment. Use “Compare translations” on any verse to read it across multiple English versions. This concordance covers the Hebrew Bible; Septuagint (Greek Old Testament) occurrences are not indexed here.
Nehemiah
- Nehemiah 3:11 פַּחַ֣ת מוֹאָ֑ב n Proper n Proper Malchijah the son of Harim, and Hasshub the son of Pahath-moab, repaired another portion, and the tower of the furnaces.
- Nehemiah 7:11 פַחַ֥ת מוֹאָ֛ב n Proper n Proper The children of Pahath-moab, of the children of Jeshua and Joab, two thousand eight hundred [and] eighteen.
- Nehemiah 10:14 פַּחַ֣ת מוֹאָ֔ב n Proper n Proper The chiefs of the people: Parosh, Pahath-moab, Elam, Zattu, Bani,
About this entry
At a glance — auto-summarized from this page’s data, not written by a person. Every figure links to its source below. This summary describes the numbers; it doesn’t interpret them.
פחת מואב (Pachath Môwʼâb) is a Hebrew name most often rendered “Pahath-moab.” Ezra dominates its distribution — 3 of 6 verses. Spanning 6 verses in 2 books, it ranks among the uncommon words of the Hebrew Bible. It first appears in Ezra 2:6. For the data behind this summary, explore 6-verse concordance and the renderings breakdown below.
Gloss history
Strong's 1890 vs modern scholarship
About this word
Strong's H6355 catalogs a Hebrew word from the Hebrew Old Testament.
These counts are not copied from any lexicon or concordance. They are computed here, from the morphology-tagged Hebrew Old Testament. What Lemma adds →
- 6
- distinct verses
- The word appears in 6 distinct verses.
- 2 / 39
- OT books
- The word appears in 2 of 39 Old Testament books.
- #2,101
- by frequency
- Top 2500 most frequent Hebrew words (rank 2,101 of 8,640 Hebrew words by occurrence).
View all 6 occurrences in the concordance →
By traditional corpus
Conventional, traditional groupings — biblical authorship is debated, so this is a traditional corpus grouping, not an authorship claim. Each share is this word’s portion of its verses in that division of the Hebrew canon. Each figure is a share of the word’s 6 distinct verses.
- Writings (Ketuvim) 6 verses · 100%
How translations render this word
Counts come from each version’s own published word-to-Strong’s tagging or interlinear alignment — an approximate guide to how each version renders this word, not a word-level alignment the data otherwise carries. Because each total is that version’s own tagged count, the per-version totals vary from one another and need not match the appearance or distinct-verse counts above. These counts may also differ from a printed concordance because Lemma counts each distinctly tagged rendering and does not collapse phrase taggings into a single head-word total. This is a fixed set of word-tagged versions (KJV, ASV, BSB, ULT) and does not change with the reading translation you choose elsewhere. Each version’s license is shown beside its name below (and on Sources).
- King James Version: Pahathmoab 6×
- American Standard Version: Pahath-moab 6×
- Berean Standard Bible: Pahath-moab 6×
- unfoldingWord Literal Text: Pahath moab 10×
King James Version Public Domain
Renders H6355 across 6 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
American Standard Version Public Domain
Renders H6355 across 6 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Berean Standard Bible Public Domain
Renders H6355 across 6 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
unfoldingWord Literal Text CC BY-SA 4.0
Renders H6355 across 12 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Plus 2 renderings that appear only once — usually multi-word phrases or single function words the recovered tagging swept in, not distinct renderings.
Senses in BDB
The 3 senses BDB distinguishes for this word, in lexicon order (not ranked by frequency or importance). The full entry — with sub-senses — is in the Lexicon Entry tab.
- Pahath-moab = "pit of Moab"
- ancestor of one or two families of Israel who returned from exile in Babylon
- a leader of the people, father of the wall rebuilder Hashub, and one who signed the covenant with Nehemiah
Word origin
n.pr.m. post-exile name;—בֶּן־פ׳ מ׳ Ne 3:11 (Φααβ[θ]μωαβ, 𝔊L Ερωμαθ), בְּנֵי־פ׳ מ׳ Ezr 2:6 = Ne 7:11; Ezr 8:4 (all Φααθμωαβ, etc.), 10:30; פ׳ מ׳ Ne 10:15 (both Φααδ[θ]μωαβ, etc.).
— Brown-Driver-Briggs (Oxford 1906, public domain), digitized via Sefaria, supplemented by the OpenScriptures HebrewLexicon (CC BY 4.0). See Sources.
Derived from פחת (pachath) (H6354) — pit.
Forms in the corpus
The 7 distinct written forms H6355 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| פַּחַ֣ת | Noun, Proper | Ezra 8:4 | 3 |
| מוֹאָ֔ב | Noun, Proper | Ezra 8:4 | 2 |
| מוֹאָ֛ב | Noun, Proper | Ezra 2:6 | 2 |
| פַחַ֥ת | Noun, Proper | Ezra 2:6 | 2 |
| מוֹאָ֑ב | Noun, Proper | Nehemiah 3:11 | 1 |
| מוֹאָ֖ב | Noun, Proper | Ezra 10:30 | 1 |
| פַּחַ֥ת | Noun, Proper | Ezra 10:30 | 1 |
Same root — word family
Other BDB entries built from the same root as H6355, 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.
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Shares the same root
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Bible dictionary
Public-domain dictionary articles matched to this entry by name (Pahath-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
Governor of Moab, a person whose descendants returned from the Captivity and assisted in rebuilding Jerusalem (Ezra 2:6; 8:4; 10:30).
Smith's Bible Dictionary · William Smith, 1863
(governor of Moab), head of one of the chief houses of the tribe of Judah. Of the individual or the occasion of his receiving so singular a name nothing is known certainty but as we read in (1 Chronicles 4:22) of a family of Shilonites, of the tribe of Judah, who in very early times "had dominion in Moab," it may be conjectured that this was the origin of the name.
Hitchcock's Bible Names Dictionary · Roswell D. Hitchcock, 1869
ruler of Moab
Classic public-domain reference works; full attribution on Sources.
Septuagint verse parallels
This word appears in 3 verses that also exist in the Greek Old Testament (Septuagint), out of the 6 Hebrew verses it occurs in. You can read those verses in Greek by switching the Old Testament edition to the Septuagint.
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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.
