מוֹאָבִיMôwʼâbîy
Moabitish, a Moabite, the Moabites (Deuteronomy 23:4; Ezra 9:1; Deuteronomy 2:11; Deuteronomy 2:29; Ruth 1:22)
Pronunciation: mo-aw-bee' · Hebrew/Aramaic (Old Testament) · H4125
Same root
Where it appears
Appears 16 times in the Bible.
- Deuteronomy 2:11 Both the Emites and the Anakites are also known as the Rephaites, though the Moabites call them Emites.
- Deuteronomy 2:29 The descendants of Esau who live in Seir allowed us to go through their country, and so did the Moabites, who live in Ar. Let us pass through until we cross the Jordan into the land the Lord our God is giving us.’
- Deuteronomy 23:3 “No Ammonite or Moabite or any of their descendants for ten generations may be admitted to the assembly of the Lord.
- Ruth 1:4 The two sons married Moabite women. One married a woman named Orpah, and the other a woman named Ruth. But about ten years later,
- Ruth 1:22 So Naomi returned from Moab, accompanied by her daughter-in-law Ruth, the young Moabite woman. They arrived in Bethlehem in late spring, at the beginning of the barley harvest.
- Ruth 2:2 One day Ruth the Moabite said to Naomi, “Let me go out into the harvest fields to pick up the stalks of grain left behind by anyone who is kind enough to let me do it.” Naomi replied, “All right, my daughter, go ahead.”
Source: Brown, Driver and Briggs, Hebrew and English Lexicon of the Old Testament (1906), public domain; markup by unfoldingWord, CC BY (github.com/unfoldingWord/Brown-Driver-Briggs-Enhanced).