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# מוֹאָב

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H4124

**Moab** — used 180 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

Moab [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1502/4124/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

מוֹאָב: n.pr. gent. et terr. Moab [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1502/4124/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** n.pr. gent. et terr. Moab (MI 1, 2, 5, 6, 12, 20 מאב; Assyrian Maʾaba, Maʾbu, Muʾâba, etc., Schr COT Gloss., and on Gn 19, 37 DlPar. 294 f., 296;—on etym. cf. LagBN 90 Anm., NeSK 1892, 573, GrayProp. N. 25);—מו׳ Gn 19:37 + 178 times; מֹאָב 2 S 8:12; 𝔊 Μωαβ;— Moab as son of Lot by his elder daughter according to Gn 19:37. Moab: = nation of which Lot’s son is represented as ancestor Gn 19:37 Nu 21:29; 22:3(×2) Am 2:1, 2 Je 48:1, 2 + 30 times Je 48 + often; having a king, Nu 21:26; 22:4, 10 Ju 3:12 1 S 12:9 +. = territory of Moab Nu 21:11, 13(×2), 15 +; שְׂדֵה מ׳ †Gn 36:25 Nu 15:20 Ru 1:1, 2, 6(×2), 22; 2:6; 4:3 1 Ch 1:46; 8:8; אֶרֶץ מ׳ †Dt 1:5; 28:69; 32:49; 34:5, 6 Ju 11:15, 18(×2) Je 48:24, 33; מִדְבַּר מ׳ †Dt 2:8; עַרְבוֹת מ׳ †Nu 22:1; 26:3, 63; 31:12; 33:48, 49, 50; 35:1; 36:13; Dt 34:1, 8 Jos 13:32.

Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 46 of its verses cited, 1 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, 1 with the glosses (2 candidates)

## Glosses

MACULA's English glosses of the word in the text, with how often each is used: of Moab (107); Moab (70); O Moab (3).

## In the verses

[Jeremiah 48:4](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/JER.48.4/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/JER.48.4/#tree)

נִשְׁבְּרָ֖ה מוֹאָ֑ב הִשְׁמִ֥יעוּ זְּעָקָ֖ה צְעִירֶֽיהָ׃

*Word for word:* it.will.be.broken Moab they.will.make.heard a.cry.of.distress its servants

*JPS 1917:* Moab is destroyed; her little ones have caused a cry to be heard.

[Psalms 83:7](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PSA.83.7/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PSA.83.7/#tree)

אָהֳלֵ֣י אֱ֭דוֹם וְיִשְׁמְעֵאלִ֗ים מוֹאָ֥ב וְהַגְרִֽים׃

*Word for word:* the.tents of.Edom and.\[the\] Ishmaelites Moab and the.Hagrites

*JPS 1917:* The tents of Edom and the Ishmaelites; Moab, and the Hagrites;

## On Mova

- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1502/4124/): 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).