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Lexicon :: Strong's H4124 - mô'āḇ

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מוֹאָב
Transliteration
mô'āḇ
Pronunciation
mo-awb
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Part of Speech
proper locative noun, proper masculine noun
Root Word (Etymology)
From a prolonged form of the prepositional prefix m- and אָב (H1), from (her [the mother's]) father
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TWOT Reference: 1155

Strong’s Definitions

מוֹאָב Môwʼâb, mo-awb; from a prolonged form of the prepositional prefix m- and H1; from (her [the mother's]) father; Moab, an incestuous son of Lot; also his territory and descendants:—Moab.

KJV Translation Count — Total: 181x

The KJV translates Strong's H4124 in the following manner: Moab (166x), Moabites (15x).

KJV Translation Count — Total: 181x
The KJV translates Strong's H4124 in the following manner: Moab (166x), Moabites (15x).

  1. Moab = "of his father"

    proper masculine noun

    1. a son of Lot by his eldest daughter

    2. the nation descended from the son of Lot

      proper locative noun

    3. the land inhabited by the descendants of the son of Lot

Strong’s Definitions [?](Strong’s Definitions Legend)
מוֹאָב Môwʼâb, mo-awb; from a prolonged form of the prepositional prefix m- and H1; from (her [the mother's]) father; Moab, an incestuous son of Lot; also his territory and descendants:—Moab.
STRONGS H4124: Abbreviations
מוֺאָב, מֹאָב 180 proper name, of a people and territory Moab (MI1, 2, 5, 6, 12, 20 מאב; Assyrian Ma’aba, Ma’bu, Mu’âba, etc., SchrCOT Glossary, and on Genesis 19:37 DlPar. 294 f., 296; — on etymology compare LagBN 90 Anm., NeSK 1892, 573, GrayProp. N. 25); — מו׳ Genesis 19:37 + 178 times; מֹאָב 2 Samuel 8:12; Greek Version of the LXX Μωαβ; —
1. Moab as son of Lot by his elder daughter according to Genesis 19:37.
2. Moab:
a. = nation of which Lot's son is represented as ancestor Genesis 19:37; Numbers 21:29; Numbers 22:3 (twice in verse); Amos 2:1, 2; Jeremiah 48:1, + 230 times Jeremiah 4:8 + often; having a king, Numbers 21:26; Numbers 22:4, 10; Judges 3:12; 1 Samuel 12:9 +.
b. = territory of Moab Numbers 21:11, 13 (twice in verse); Numbers 21:15 +; שְׂדֵת מ׳ Genesis 36:25; Numbers 15:20; Ruth 1:1, 2, 6 (twice in verse); Ruth 1:22; Ruth 2:6; Ruth 4:3; 1 Chronicles 1:46; 1 Chronicles 8:8; אֶרֶץ מ׳ Deuteronomy 1:5; Deuteronomy 28:69 [Deuteronomy 29:1]; Deuteronomy 32:49; Deuteronomy 34:5, 6; Judges 11:15, 18 (twice in verse); Jeremiah 48:24, 33; מִדְבַּר מ׳ Deuteronomy 2:8; עַרְבוֺת מ׳ Numbers 22:1; Numbers 26:3, 63; Numbers 31:12; Numbers 33:48, 49, 50; Numbers 35:1; Numbers 36:13; Deuteronomy 34:1, 8; Joshua 13:32.
Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew and English Lexicon, Unabridged, Electronic Database.
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BLB Scripture Index of Brown-Driver-Briggs

Genesis

19:37; 19:37; 19:37; 19:37; 36:25

Numbers

15:20; 21:11; 21:13; 21:15; 21:26; 21:29; 22:1; 22:3; 22:4; 22:10; 26:3; 26:63; 31:12; 33:48; 33:49; 33:50; 35:1; 36:13

Deuteronomy

1:5; 2:8; 29:1; 32:49; 34:1; 34:5; 34:6; 34:8

Joshua

13:32

Judges

3:12; 11:15; 11:18

Ruth

1:1; 1:2; 1:6; 1:22; 2:6; 4:3

1 Samuel

12:9

2 Samuel

8:12

1 Chronicles

1:46; 8:8

Jeremiah

4:8; 48:1; 48:24; 48:33

Amos

2:1; 2:2

H4124

Word / Phrase / Strong's Search

Strong's Number H4124 matches the Hebrew מוֹאָב (mô'āḇ),
which occurs 181 times in 158 verses in the WLC Hebrew.

Page 2 / 4 (Jdg 3:29–Psa 108:9)

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Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 3:29 - And they killed at that time about 10,000 of the Moabites, all strong, able-bodied men; not a man escaped.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jdg 3:30

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 3:30 - So Moab was subdued that day under the hand of Israel. And the land had rest for eighty years.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jdg 10:6

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 10:6 - The people of Israel again did what was evil in the sight of the LORD and served the Baals and the Ashtaroth, the gods of Syria, the gods of Sidon, the gods of Moab, the gods of the Ammonites, and the gods of the Philistines. And they forsook the LORD and did not serve him.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jdg 11:15

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 11:15 - and said to him, “Thus says Jephthah: Israel did not take away the land of Moab or the land of the Ammonites,

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Unchecked Copy Box Jdg 11:17

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 11:17 - Israel then sent messengers to the king of Edom, saying, ‘Please let us pass through your land,’ but the king of Edom would not listen. And they sent also to the king of Moab, but he would not consent. So Israel remained at Kadesh.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jdg 11:18

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 11:18 - “Then they journeyed through the wilderness and went around the land of Edom and the land of Moab and arrived on the east side of the land of Moab and camped on the other side of the Arnon. But they did not enter the territory of Moab, for the Arnon was the boundary of Moab.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jdg 11:25

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 11:25 - Now are you any better than Balak the son of Zippor, king of Moab? Did he ever contend against Israel, or did he ever go to war with them?

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Unchecked Copy Box Rth 1:1

Unchecked Copy BoxRth 1:1 - In the days when the judges ruled there was a famine in the land, and a man of Bethlehem in Judah went to sojourn in the country of Moab, he and his wife and his two sons.

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Unchecked Copy Box Rth 1:2

Unchecked Copy BoxRth 1:2 - The name of the man was Elimelech and the name of his wife Naomi, and the names of his two sons were Mahlon and Chilion. They were Ephrathites from Bethlehem in Judah. They went into the country of Moab and remained there.

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Unchecked Copy Box Rth 1:6

Unchecked Copy BoxRth 1:6 - Then she arose with her daughters-in-law to return from the country of Moab, for she had heard in the fields of Moab that the LORD had visited his people and given them food.

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Unchecked Copy Box Rth 1:22

Unchecked Copy BoxRth 1:22 - So Naomi returned, and Ruth the Moabite her daughter-in-law with her, who returned from the country of Moab. And they came to Bethlehem at the beginning of barley harvest.

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Unchecked Copy Box Rth 2:6

Unchecked Copy BoxRth 2:6 - And the servant who was in charge of the reapers answered, “She is the young Moabite woman, who came back with Naomi from the country of Moab.

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Unchecked Copy Box Rth 4:3

Unchecked Copy BoxRth 4:3 - Then he said to the redeemer, “Naomi, who has come back from the country of Moab, is selling the parcel of land that belonged to our relative Elimelech.

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Sa 12:9

Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 12:9 - But they forgot the LORD their God. And he sold them into the hand of Sisera, commander of the army of Hazor,[fn] and into the hand of the Philistines, and into the hand of the king of Moab. And they fought against them.

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Sa 14:47

Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 14:47 - When Saul had taken the kingship over Israel, he fought against all his enemies on every side, against Moab, against the Ammonites, against Edom, against the kings of Zobah, and against the Philistines. Wherever he turned he routed them.

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Sa 22:3

Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 22:3 - And David went from there to Mizpeh of Moab. And he said to the king of Moab, “Please let my father and my mother stay[fn] with you, till I know what God will do for me.”

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Sa 22:4

Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 22:4 - And he left them with the king of Moab, and they stayed with him all the time that David was in the stronghold.

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Sa 8:2

Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 8:2 - And he defeated Moab and he measured them with a line, making them lie down on the ground. Two lines he measured to be put to death, and one full line to be spared. And the Moabites became servants to David and brought tribute.

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Sa 8:12

Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 8:12 - from Edom, Moab, the Ammonites, the Philistines, Amalek, and from the spoil of Hadadezer the son of Rehob, king of Zobah.

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Sa 23:20

Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 23:20 - And Benaiah the son of Jehoiada was a valiant man[fn] of Kabzeel, a doer of great deeds. He struck down two ariels[fn] of Moab. He also went down and struck down a lion in a pit on a day when snow had fallen.

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Ki 11:7

Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 11:7 - Then Solomon built a high place for Chemosh the abomination of Moab, and for Molech the abomination of the Ammonites, on the mountain east of Jerusalem.

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Ki 11:33

Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 11:33 - because they have[fn] forsaken me and worshiped Ashtoreth the goddess of the Sidonians, Chemosh the god of Moab, and Milcom the god of the Ammonites, and they have not walked in my ways, doing what is right in my sight and keeping my statutes and my rules, as David his father did.

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Ki 1:1

Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 1:1 - After the death of Ahab, Moab rebelled against Israel.

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Ki 3:4

Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 3:4 - Now Mesha king of Moab was a sheep breeder, and he had to deliver to the king of Israel 100,000 lambs and the wool of 100,000 rams.

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Ki 3:5

Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 3:5 - But when Ahab died, the king of Moab rebelled against the king of Israel.

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Ki 3:7

Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 3:7 - And he went and sent word to Jehoshaphat king of Judah: “The king of Moab has rebelled against me. Will you go with me to battle against Moab?” And he said, “I will go. I am as you are, my people as your people, my horses as your horses.”

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Ki 3:10

Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 3:10 - Then the king of Israel said, “Alas! The LORD has called these three kings to give them into the hand of Moab.”

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Ki 3:13

Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 3:13 - And Elisha said to the king of Israel, “What have I to do with you? Go to the prophets of your father and to the prophets of your mother.” But the king of Israel said to him, “No; it is the LORD who has called these three kings to give them into the hand of Moab.”

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Ki 3:18

Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 3:18 - This is a light thing in the sight of the LORD. He will also give the Moabites into your hand,

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Ki 3:21

Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 3:21 - When all the Moabites heard that the kings had come up to fight against them, all who were able to put on armor, from the youngest to the oldest, were called out and were drawn up at the border.

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Ki 3:22

Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 3:22 - And when they rose early in the morning and the sun shone on the water, the Moabites saw the water opposite them as red as blood.

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Ki 3:23

Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 3:23 - And they said, “This is blood; the kings have surely fought together and struck one another down. Now then, Moab, to the spoil!”

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Ki 3:24

Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 3:24 - But when they came to the camp of Israel, the Israelites rose and struck the Moabites, till they fled before them. And they went forward, striking the Moabites as they went.[fn]

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Ki 3:26

Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 3:26 - When the king of Moab saw that the battle was going against him, he took with him 700 swordsmen to break through, opposite the king of Edom, but they could not.

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Ki 13:20

Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 13:20 - So Elisha died, and they buried him. Now bands of Moabites used to invade the land in the spring of the year.

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Ki 23:13

Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 23:13 - And the king defiled the high places that were east of Jerusalem, to the south of the mount of corruption, which Solomon the king of Israel had built for Ashtoreth the abomination of the Sidonians, and for Chemosh the abomination of Moab, and for Milcom the abomination of the Ammonites.

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Ki 24:2

Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 24:2 - And the LORD sent against him bands of the Chaldeans and bands of the Syrians and bands of the Moabites and bands of the Ammonites, and sent them against Judah to destroy it, according to the word of the LORD that he spoke by his servants the prophets.

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Ch 1:46

Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 1:46 - Husham died, and Hadad the son of Bedad, who defeated Midian in the country of Moab, reigned in his place, the name of his city being Avith.

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Ch 4:22

Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 4:22 - and Jokim, and the men of Cozeba, and Joash, and Saraph, who ruled in Moab and returned to Lehem[fn] (now the records[fn] are ancient).

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Ch 8:8

Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 8:8 - And Shaharaim fathered sons in the country of Moab after he had sent away Hushim and Baara his wives.

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Ch 11:22

Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 11:22 - And Benaiah the son of Jehoiada was a valiant man[fn] of Kabzeel, a doer of great deeds. He struck down two heroes of Moab. He also went down and struck down a lion in a pit on a day when snow had fallen.

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Ch 18:2

Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 18:2 - And he defeated Moab, and the Moabites became servants to David and brought tribute.

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Ch 18:11

Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 18:11 - These also King David dedicated to the LORD, together with the silver and gold that he had carried off from all the nations, from Edom, Moab, the Ammonites, the Philistines, and Amalek.

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Ch 20:1

Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 20:1 - After this the Moabites and Ammonites, and with them some of the Meunites,[fn] came against Jehoshaphat for battle.

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Ch 20:10

Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 20:10 - And now behold, the men of Ammon and Moab and Mount Seir, whom you would not let Israel invade when they came from the land of Egypt, and whom they avoided and did not destroy—

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Ch 20:22

Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 20:22 - And when they began to sing and praise, the LORD set an ambush against the men of Ammon, Moab, and Mount Seir, who had come against Judah, so that they were routed.

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Ch 20:23

Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 20:23 - For the men of Ammon and Moab rose against the inhabitants of Mount Seir, devoting them to destruction, and when they had made an end of the inhabitants of Seir, they all helped to destroy one another.

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Unchecked Copy Box Psa 60:8

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 60:8 - Moab is my washbasin;
upon Edom I cast my shoe;
over Philistia I shout in triumph.”[fn]

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Unchecked Copy Box Psa 83:6

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 83:6 - the tents of Edom and the Ishmaelites,
Moab and the Hagrites,

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Unchecked Copy Box Psa 108:9

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 108:9 - Moab is my washbasin;
upon Edom I cast my shoe;
over Philistia I shout in triumph.”

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3. LOAD PAGE 3 Isa 11:14–Eze 25:8

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