מֹשֶׁהMôsheh

משֶׂה: proper name, masculine: Moses, the great Hebrew leader, prophet and lawgiver (Exodus 2:10; Exodus 2:15; Judges 18:30; 1 Samuel 12:6; 1 Samuel 12:8)

Pronunciation: mo-sheh' · Hebrew/Aramaic (Old Testament) · H4872

Meanings

: proper name, masculine: Moses (Ezra 6:18)

Same root

Where it appears

Appears 766 times in the Bible.

  • Exodus 2:10 Later, when the boy was older, his mother brought him back to Pharaoh’s daughter, who adopted him as her own son. The princess named him Moses, for she explained, “I lifted him out of the water.”
  • Exodus 2:11 Many years later, when Moses had grown up, he went out to visit his own people, the Hebrews, and he saw how hard they were forced to work. During his visit, he saw an Egyptian beating one of his fellow Hebrews.
  • Exodus 2:14 The man replied, “Who appointed you to be our prince and judge? Are you going to kill me as you killed that Egyptian yesterday?” Then Moses was afraid, thinking, “Everyone knows what I did.”
  • Exodus 2:15 And sure enough, Pharaoh heard what had happened, and he tried to kill Moses. But Moses fled from Pharaoh and went to live in the land of Midian. When Moses arrived in Midian, he sat down beside a well.
  • Exodus 2:17 But some other shepherds came and chased them away. So Moses jumped up and rescued the girls from the shepherds. Then he drew water for their flocks.
  • Exodus 2:21 Moses accepted the invitation, and he settled there with him. In time, Reuel gave Moses his daughter Zipporah to be his wife.
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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).