Lexicon Moab: a son of Lot,also his desc. and the territory where they settled Original Word: מוֹאָבPart of Speech: proper name, of a people and territory Transliteration: Moab Phonetic Spelling: (mo-awb) Short Definition: Moab NAS Exhaustive Concordance Word Originfrom a prefixed syllable and abDefinitiona son of Lot,also his desc. and the territory where they settled NASB TranslationMoab (168), Moab's (1), Moabites (12).
Brown-Driver-Briggs מוֺאָב, מֹאָב180 proper name, of a people and territory Moab (MI1, 2, 5, 6, 12, 20 מאב; Assyrian Ma°aba, Ma°bu, Mu°âba, etc., SchrCOT Glossary, and on Genesis 19:37 DlPar. 294 f., 296; — on etymology compare LagBN 90 Anm., NeSK 1892, 573, GrayProp.N.25); — ׳מו Genesis 19:37 178t.; מֹאָב 2 Samuel 8:12; ᵐ5 Μωαβ; — 1 Moab as son of Lot by his elder daughter according to Genesis 19:37. 2 Moab: a. = nation of which Lot's son is represented as ancestor Genesis 19:37; Numbers 21:29; Numbers 22:3 (twice in verse); Amos 2:1,2; Jeremiah 48:1,230t. Jeremiah 4:8 + often; having a king, Numbers 21:26; Numbers 22:4,10; Judges 3:12; 1 Samuel 12:9 +. b. = territory of Moab Numbers 21:11,13 (twice in verse); Numbers 21:15 +; ׳שְׂדֵת מ Genesis 36:25; Numbers 15:20; Ruth 1:1,2,6 (twice in verse); Ruth 1:22; Ruth 2:6; Ruth 4:3; 1 Chronicles 1:46; 1 Chronicles 8:8; ׳אֶרֶץ מ Deuteronomy 1:5; Deuteronomy 28:69; Deuteronomy 32:49; Deuteronomy 34:5,6; Judges 11:15,18 (twice in verse); Jeremiah 48:24,33; ׳מִדְבַּר מ Deuteronomy 2:8; ׳עַרְבוֺת מ Numbers 22:1; Numbers 26:3,63; Numbers 31:12; Numbers 33:48,49,50; Numbers 35:1; Numbers 36:13; Deuteronomy 34:1,8; Joshua 13:32.
Strong's Moab From a prolonged form of the prepositional prefix m- and 'ab; from (her (the mother's)) father; Moab, an incestuous son of Lot; also his territory and descendants -- Moab. see HEBREW 'ab |
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