Môwʼâbîy — H4125

Definition

adjective

a Moabite or Moabitess, i.e. a descendant from Moab

1. Moabite = "from father: what father?"
2. an citizen of Moab
3. an inhabitant of the land of Moab

Usually translated as

Moabitess, Moabite, of Moab, Moabitish

Origin

feminine Môwʼâbîyâh; or Môwʼâbîyth; patronymical from H4124

• Derived from Môwʼâb (H4124)

Occurrences

Môwʼâbîy occurs 16 times in the King James.

Distribution of the word across the Bible: Deuteronomy (3), Ruth (7), 1 Kings (1), 1 Chronicles (1), 2 Chronicles (1), Ezra (1), Nehemiah (2)

• Deuteronomy 2:11 — Which also were accounted giants, as the Anakims; but the Moabites (וְהַמֹּ֣אָבִ֔ים) call them Emims.
• Deuteronomy 2:29 — (As the children of Esau which dwell in Seir, and the Moabites (וְהַמּ֣וֹאָבִ֔ים) which dwell in Ar, did unto me;) until I shall pass over Jordan into the land which the LORD our God giveth us.
• Deuteronomy 23:3 — An Ammonite or Moabite (וּמוֹאָבִ֖י) shall not enter into the congregation of the LORD; even to their tenth generation shall they not enter into the congregation of the LORD for ever:
• Ruth 1:4 — And they took them wives of the women of Moab (מֹֽאֲבִיּ֔וֹת); the name of the one was Orpah, and the name of the other Ruth: and they dwelled there about ten years.
• Ruth 1:22 — So Naomi returned, and Ruth the Moabitess (הַמּוֹאֲבִיָּ֤ה), her daughter in law, with her, which returned out of the country of Moab: and they came to Beth-lehem in the beginning of barley harvest.
• Ruth 2:2 — And Ruth the Moabitess (הַמּוֹאֲבִיָּ֜ה) said unto Naomi, Let me now go to the field, and glean ears of corn after him in whose sight I shall find grace. And she said unto her, Go, my daughter.
• Ruth 2:6 — And the servant that was set over the reapers answered and said, It is the Moabitish (מֽוֹאֲבִיָּה֙) damsel that came back with Naomi out of the country of Moab:
• Ruth 2:21 — And Ruth the Moabitess (הַמּוֹאֲבִיָּ֑ה) said, He said unto me also, Thou shalt keep fast by my young men, until they have ended all my harvest.
• Ruth 4:5 — Then said Boaz, What day thou buyest the field of the hand of Naomi, thou must buy it also of Ruth the Moabitess (הַמּוֹאֲבִיָּ֤ה), the wife of the dead, to raise up the name of the dead upon his inheritance.
• Ruth 4:10 — Moreover Ruth the Moabitess (הַמֹּאֲבִיָּה֩), the wife of Mahlon, have I purchased to be my wife, to raise up the name of the dead upon his inheritance, that the name of the dead be not cut off from among his brethren, and from the gate of his place: ye are witnesses this day.
• 1 Kings 11:1 — But king Solomon loved many strange women, together with the daughter of Pharaoh, women of the Moabites (מוֹאֲבִיּ֤וֹת), Ammonites, Edomites, Zidonians, and Hittites;
• 1 Chronicles 11:46 — Eliel the Mahavite, and Jeribai, and Joshaviah, the sons of Elnaam, and Ithmah the Moabite (הַמּוֹאָבִֽי),
• 2 Chronicles 24:26 — And these are they that conspired against him; Zabad the son of Shimeath an Ammonitess, and Jehozabad the son of Shimrith a Moabitess (הַמּוֹאָבִֽית).
• Ezra 9:1 — Now when these things were done, the princes came to me, saying, The people of Israel, and the priests, and the Levites, have not separated themselves from the people of the lands, doing according to their abominations, even of the Canaanites, the Hittites, the Perizzites, the Jebusites, the Ammonites, the Moabites (הַמֹּ֣אָבִ֔י), the Egyptians, and the Amorites.
• Nehemiah 13:1 — On that day they read in the book of Moses in the audience of the people; and therein was found written, that the Ammonite and the Moabite (וּמֹאָבִ֛י) should not come into the congregation of God for ever;
• Nehemiah 13:23 — In those days also saw I Jews that had married wives of Ashdod, of Ammon, and of Moab (מוֹאֲבִיּֽוֹת):