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# מוֹאָבִי

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H4125

**Moabitish** — used 16 times in the Hebrew Bible. Below: its meanings with their sources, MACULA's glosses, and 2 verses word for word and in JPS 1917.

## Meaning

### OpenScriptures lexical index

Moabitish [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1502/4125/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

מ֥וֹאָבִי: adj.gent. Moabitish [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1502/4125/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** adj.gent. Moabitish;—מ׳ Dt 23:4 + 2 times, מֹאָבִי Ezr 9:1; pl. מֹאָבִים Dt 2:11; מוֹאָב׳ Dt 2:29; fs. מוֹאֲבִיָּה Ru 1:22 + 4 times; מֹאֲב׳ Ru 4:10; מוֹאָבִית 2 Ch 24:26; fpl. מוֹאֲבִיוֹת 1 K 11:1 Ne 13:23; מֹאֲב׳ Ru 1:4:—m. = a Moabite Dt 23:4 Ne 13:1; הַמּ׳ = the Moabite 1 Ch 11:46; coll. = the Moabites Ezr 9:1, so pl. Dt 2:11, 29; fpl. as adj. נָשִׁים מ׳ Ru 1:4; as subst., 1 K 11:1 Ne 13:23; fs. as adj. 2 Ch 24:26; especially רוּת הַמּ׳ Ru 1:22; 2:2, 21; 4:5, 10; מ׳ as n.fs. Ru 2:6.

Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 16 of its verses cited, 0 words shared with the glosses, lists its Strong's number (3 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 1 words shared with the BDB entry, 0 with the glosses (2 candidates)

## Glosses

MACULA's English glosses of the word in the text, with how often each is used: \[woman\] (6); Moabites (4); Moabite (2).

## In the verses

[1 Chronicles 11:46](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/1CH.11.46/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/1CH.11.46/#tree)

אֱלִיאֵל֙ הַֽמַּחֲוִ֔ים וִירִיבַ֥י וְיוֹשַׁוְיָ֖ה בְּנֵ֣י אֶלְנָ֑עַם וְיִתְמָ֖ה הַמּוֹאָבִֽי׃

*Word for word:* Eliel the Mahavite and Jeribai and Joshaviah the.sons of.Elnaam and Ithmah the Moabite

*JPS 1917:* Eliel the Mahavite, and Jeribai, and Joshaviah, the sons of Elnaam, and Ithmah the Moabite;

[Deuteronomy 2:11](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/DEU.2.11/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/DEU.2.11/#tree)

רְפָאִ֛ים יֵחָשְׁב֥וּ אַף־הֵ֖ם כָּעֲנָקִ֑ים וְהַמֹּ֣אָבִ֔ים יִקְרְא֥וּ לָהֶ֖ם אֵמִֽים׃

*Word for word:* Rephaites they.were.regarded also they like the Anakites and the Moabites they.called (to) them Emites

*JPS 1917:* these also are accounted Rephaim, as the Anakim; but the Moabites call them Emim.

## On Mova

- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1502/4125/): every English meaning parsed by Mova, with its dependency tree and frames.

Sources. The words, their counts, glosses and the word-for-word renderings: MACULA Hebrew (the Westminster Leningrad Codex; Clear Bible, CC BY 4.0). Meanings: the OpenScriptures lexical index (CC BY 4.0), Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906 and Jastrow 1903 (public domain, via Sefaria); Targum Onkelos from Sefaria (public domain). Translation: JPS 1917 (public domain, from eBible.org).