(Plains of) Moab
מוֹאָבStrong’s H4124moav (mo-av)
Appears in 158 verses of the Old Testament
In short
Moav is the Hebrew word usually translated “moab”, “o moab” and “from moab”. It appears in 158 verses of the Old Testament.
“He shall enter also into the glorious land, and many countries shall be overthrown: but these shall escape out of his hand, even Edom, and Moab, and the chief of the children of Ammon.”
Meaning
- Moab = "of his father"
- A son of Lot by his eldest daughter
- The nation descended from the son of Lot
- The land inhabited by the descendants of the son of Lot
- Combined with a.ra.vah (עֲרָבָה " Plains" H6160I)
How it's translated
- moab 155
- of moab 5
- and moab 4
- for moab 4
- o moab 3
- to moab 3
- and from moab 2
- against moab 1
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- Jeremiah 33
- Numbers 30
- Isaiah 16
- 2 Kings 15
- Judges 12
- Deuteronomy 10
21 books in all.
Explore in Scripture
- Genesis 19:37And the first born bare a son, and called his name Moab: the same is the father of the Moabites unto this day.
- Genesis 36:35And Husham died, and Hadad the son of Bedad, who smote Midian in the field of Moab, reigned in his stead: and the name of his city was Avith.
- Exodus 15:15Then the dukes of Edom shall be amazed; the mighty men of Moab, trembling shall take hold upon them; all the inhabitants of Canaan shall melt away.
- Numbers 21:11And they journeyed from Oboth, and pitched at Ijeabarim, in the wilderness which is before Moab, toward the sunrising.
- Numbers 21:13From thence they removed, and pitched on the other side of Arnon, which is in the wilderness that cometh out of the coasts of the Amorites: for Arnon is the border of Moab, between Moab and the Amorites.
- Numbers 21:15And at the stream of the brooks that goeth down to the dwelling of Ar, and lieth upon the border of Moab.
All 158 verses, by book
- Exodus 1
- 15:15
- Numbers 30
- 21:1121:1321:1521:2021:2621:2821:2922:122:322:422:722:822:1022:1422:2122:3623:623:723:1724:1725:126:326:6331:1233:4433:4833:4933:5035:136:13
- Jeremiah 33
- 9:2625:2127:340:1148:148:248:448:948:1148:1348:1548:1648:1848:2048:2448:2548:2648:2848:2948:3148:3348:3548:3648:3848:3948:4048:4148:4248:4348:4448:4548:4648:47
- Daniel 1
- 11:41
- Micah 1
- 6:5
Hebrew dictionary
מוֹאָב moav · Moab
Moab = "of his father" the nation descended from the son of Lot Also named: mo.a.vi (מוֹאָבִי "Moab" H4125)
מוֹאָב moav · Moab
A man living at the time of the Patriarchs, first mentioned at Gen.19.37; son of: Lot (H3876) and his first daughter (H3876H); half-brother of Ben-ammi (H1151); § Moab = "of his father" 1) a son of Lot by his eldest daughter 2) the nation descended from the son of Lot 3) the land inhabited by the descendants of the son of Lot
מוֹאָב moav · (Plains of) Moab
Combined with a.ra.vah (עֲרָבָה " Plains" H6160I) § Moab = "of his father" the land inhabited by the descendants of the son of Lot
From STEPBible’s Hebrew lexicon (based on Brown-Driver-Briggs).
Verses are from the King James Version. Word meanings come from the original Hebrew, not from any one translation.