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Strong's #4125: Mow'abiy (pronounced mo-aw-bee')

feminine Mownabiyah {mo-aw-bee-yaw'}; or Mowabiyth {mo-aw-beeth'}; patronymical from 4124; a Moabite or Moabitess, i.e. a descendant from Moab:--(woman) of Moab, Moabite(-ish, -ss).




Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon:

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mô'âbı̂y / mô'âbı̂yâh / mô'âbı̂yth

Moabite = "from father: what father?"

1) an citizen of Moab

2) an inhabitant of the land of Moab

Part of Speech: adjective

Relation: patronymical from H4124



Usage:

This word is used 16 times:

Deuteronomy 2:11: "were accounted giants, as the Anakims; but the Moabites call them Emims."
Deuteronomy 2:29: "of Esau which dwell in Seir, and the Moabites which dwell in Ar, did unto me;) until"
Deuteronomy 23:3: "An Ammonite or Moabite shall not enter into the congregation of the LORD; even to their tenth"
Ruth 1:4: "And they took them wives of the women of Moab; the name of the one was Orpah, and the name of the other"
Ruth 1:22: "So Naomi returned, and Ruth the Moabitess, her daughter-in-law, with her, which returned out of the country"
Ruth 2:2: "And Ruth the Moabitess said unto Naomi, Let me now go to the field,"
Ruth 2:6: "answered and said, It is the Moabitish damsel that came back with Naomi"
Ruth 2:21: "And Ruth the Moabitess said, He said unto me also, Thou shalt keep fast by"
Ruth 4:5: "of Naomi, thou must buy it also of Ruth the Moabitess, the wife of the dead,"
Ruth 4:10: "Moreover Ruth the Moabitess, the wife of Mahlon, have I purchased to be my wife,"
1 Kings 11:1: "together with the daughter of Pharaoh, women of the Moabites, Ammonites, Edomites, Zidonians, and Hittites;"
1 Chronicles 11:46: "the sons of Elnaam, and Ithmah the Moabite,"
2 Chronicles 24:26: "and Jehozabad the son of Shimrith a Moabitess."
Ezra 9:1: "the Hittites, the Perizzites, the Jebusites, the Ammonites, the Moabites, the Egyptians, and the Amorites."
Nehemiah 13:1: "written, that the Ammonite and the Moabite should not come into the congregation of God"
Nehemiah 13:23: "wives of Ashdod, of Ammon, and of Moab:"









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