מוֹאָב
Môwʼâb · mo-awb
Moab, an incestuous son of Lot; also his territory and descendants
Lexicon
Derivation: from a prolonged form of the prepositional prefix m-and H1 (אָב); from (her (the mother's)) father;
Moab, an incestuous son of Lot; also his territory and descendants
- Moab, an incestuous son of Lot
- also, his territory and descendants
Definition from Strong's Exhaustive Concordance (1890). Wording is Strong's own, including his etymological notes, which are not separate meanings.
KJV renderings: Moab.
Letters
- מMem40
Picture: waves of water
- Concrete
- water · sea · blood · liquid
- Extended
- chaos · mighty and uncontrollable · the masses · from / out of
- וVav6
Picture: tent peg or hook
- Concrete
- nail · peg · hook
- Extended
- to fasten · to secure · to establish · and (joining)
- אAlef1
Picture: ox head
- Concrete
- ox · bull · cattle
- Extended
- strength · leader · first · the one in front
- בBet2
Picture: floor plan of a tent or house
- Concrete
- house · tent · dwelling
- Extended
- family · household · what is inside · in
Possible cultural reading (auto-composed)
water, chaos, the mighty deep › to fasten and establish › strength, the leader › the house, what is within
Water, chaos, the mighty deep that works to fasten and establish of strength, the leader of the house, what is within.
Interpretive, not lexical. The dictionary sense of מוֹאָב above is the attested meaning; this pictographic reading is a tradition about how the sign-shapes may have been heard. Both can be held at once, they are answering different questions.
Usage
181 occurrences · 181 OT · 0 NT · 30 distinct forms
KJV renderings of this word, by how often each one is used.
- of moab102 · 60%
- moab14 · 8%
- and moab13 · 8%
- of the moabites6 · 4%
- for moab5 · 3%
- the moabites4 · 2%
- in moab4 · 2%
- that moab3 · 2%
- against moab2 · 1%
- and the moabites2 · 1%
- upon moab2 · 1%
- between moab1 · 1%
- to thee, moab1 · 1%
- not the moabites1 · 1%
- toward moab1 · 1%
- so moab1 · 1%
- and so the moabites1 · 1%
- and of moab1 · 1%
- then moab1 · 1%
- with me against moab1 · 1%
- and when all the moabites1 · 1%
- now therefore, moab1 · 1%
- and from moab1 · 1%
- with thee, moab1 · 1%
- therefore shall moab1 · 1%
Where it is used, by book.
Inflected forms found in the text.
Counts are computed from the tagged Hebrew and Greek text aligned to the King James Version, not from an estimate.