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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 1 / 4 (Gen 19:37–Jdg 3:28)

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 19:37 - When the older daughter gave birth to a son, she named him Moab.[fn] He became the ancestor of the nation now known as the Moabites.

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 36:35

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 36:35 - When Husham died, Hadad son of Bedad became king in his place and ruled from the city of Avith. He was the one who defeated the Midianites in the land of Moab.

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Unchecked Copy BoxExo 15:15 - The leaders of Edom are terrified;
the nobles of Moab tremble.
All who live in Canaan melt away;

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Unchecked Copy Box Num 21:11

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 21:11 - Then they went on to Iye-abarim, in the wilderness on the eastern border of Moab.

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Unchecked Copy Box Num 21:13

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 21:13 - Then they moved out and camped on the far side of the Arnon River, in the wilderness adjacent to the territory of the Amorites. The Arnon is the boundary line between the Moabites and the Amorites.

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Unchecked Copy Box Num 21:15

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 21:15 - and the ravines that extend as far as the settlement of Ar on the border of Moab.”

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Unchecked Copy Box Num 21:20

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 21:20 - After that they went to the valley in Moab where Pisgah Peak overlooks the wasteland.[fn]

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Unchecked Copy Box Num 21:26

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 21:26 - Heshbon had been the capital of King Sihon of the Amorites. He had defeated a former Moabite king and seized all his land as far as the Arnon River.

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Unchecked Copy Box Num 21:28

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 21:28 - A fire flamed forth from Heshbon,
a blaze from the city of Sihon.
It burned the city of Ar in Moab;
it destroyed the rulers of the Arnon heights.

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Unchecked Copy Box Num 21:29

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 21:29 - What sorrow awaits you, O people of Moab!
You are finished, O worshipers of Chemosh!
Chemosh has left his sons as refugees,
his daughters as captives of Sihon, the Amorite king.

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Unchecked Copy Box Num 22:1

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 22:1 - Then the people of Israel traveled to the plains of Moab and camped east of the Jordan River, across from Jericho.

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Unchecked Copy Box Num 22:3

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 22:3 - And when the people of Moab saw how many Israelites there were, they were terrified.

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Unchecked Copy Box Num 22:4

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 22:4 - The king of Moab said to the elders of Midian, “This mob will devour everything in sight, like an ox devours grass in the field!”
So Balak, king of Moab,

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Unchecked Copy Box Num 22:7

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 22:7 - Balak’s messengers, who were elders of Moab and Midian, set out with money to pay Balaam to place a curse upon Israel.[fn] They went to Balaam and delivered Balak’s message to him.

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Unchecked Copy Box Num 22:8

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 22:8 - “Stay here overnight,” Balaam said. “In the morning I will tell you whatever the LORD directs me to say.” So the officials from Moab stayed there with Balaam.

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Unchecked Copy Box Num 22:10

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 22:10 - Balaam said to God, “Balak son of Zippor, king of Moab, has sent me this message:

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Unchecked Copy Box Num 22:14

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 22:14 - So the Moabite officials returned to King Balak and reported, “Balaam refused to come with us.”

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Unchecked Copy Box Num 22:21

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 22:21 - So the next morning Balaam got up, saddled his donkey, and started off with the Moabite officials.

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Unchecked Copy Box Num 22:36

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 22:36 - When King Balak heard that Balaam was on the way, he went out to meet him at a Moabite town on the Arnon River at the farthest border of his land.

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Unchecked Copy Box Num 23:6

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 23:6 - So Balaam returned and found the king standing beside his burnt offerings with all the officials of Moab.

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Unchecked Copy Box Num 23:7

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 23:7 - This was the message Balaam delivered:
“Balak summoned me to come from Aram;
the king of Moab brought me from the eastern hills.
‘Come,’ he said, ‘curse Jacob for me!
Come and announce Israel’s doom.’

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Unchecked Copy Box Num 23:17

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 23:17 - So Balaam returned and found the king standing beside his burnt offerings with all the officials of Moab. “What did the LORD say?” Balak asked eagerly.

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Unchecked Copy Box Num 24:17

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 24:17 - I see him, but not here and now.
I perceive him, but far in the distant future.
A star will rise from Jacob;
a scepter will emerge from Israel.
It will crush the foreheads of Moab’s people,
cracking the skulls of the people of Sheth.

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Unchecked Copy Box Num 25:1

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 25:1 - While the Israelites were camped at Acacia Grove,[fn] some of the men defiled themselves by having[fn] sexual relations with local Moabite women.

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Unchecked Copy Box Num 26:3

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 26:3 - So there on the plains of Moab beside the Jordan River, across from Jericho, Moses and Eleazar the priest issued these instructions to the leaders of Israel:

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Unchecked Copy Box Num 26:63

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 26:63 - So these are the results of the registration of the people of Israel as conducted by Moses and Eleazar the priest on the plains of Moab beside the Jordan River, across from Jericho.

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Unchecked Copy Box Num 31:12

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 31:12 - they brought them all to Moses and Eleazar the priest, and to the whole community of Israel, which was camped on the plains of Moab beside the Jordan River, across from Jericho.

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Unchecked Copy Box Num 33:44

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 33:44 - They left Oboth and camped at Iye-abarim on the border of Moab.

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Unchecked Copy Box Num 33:48

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 33:48 - They left the mountains east of the river and camped on the plains of Moab beside the Jordan River, across from Jericho.

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Unchecked Copy Box Num 33:49

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 33:49 - Along the Jordan River they camped from Beth-jeshimoth as far as the meadows of Acacia[fn] on the plains of Moab.

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Unchecked Copy Box Num 33:50

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 33:50 - While they were camped near the Jordan River on the plains of Moab opposite Jericho, the LORD said to Moses,

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Unchecked Copy Box Num 35:1

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 35:1 - While Israel was camped beside the Jordan on the plains of Moab across from Jericho, the LORD said to Moses,

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Unchecked Copy Box Num 36:13

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 36:13 - These are the commands and regulations that the LORD gave to the people of Israel through Moses while they were camped on the plains of Moab beside the Jordan River across from Jericho.

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Unchecked Copy Box Deu 1:5

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 1:5 - While the Israelites were in the land of Moab east of the Jordan River, Moses carefully explained the LORD’s instructions as follows.

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Unchecked Copy Box Deu 2:8

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 2:8 - “So we bypassed the territory of our relatives, the descendants of Esau, who live in Seir. We avoided the road through the Arabah Valley that comes up from Elath and Ezion-geber.
“Then as we turned north along the desert route through Moab,

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Unchecked Copy Box Deu 2:9

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 2:9 - the LORD warned us, ‘Do not bother the Moabites, the descendants of Lot, or start a war with them. I have given them Ar as their property, and I will not give you any of their land.’”

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Unchecked Copy Box Deu 2:18

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 2:18 - ‘Today you will cross the border of Moab at Ar

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Unchecked Copy Box Deu 29:1

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 29:1 - [fn]These are the terms of the covenant the LORD commanded Moses to make with the Israelites while they were in the land of Moab, in addition to the covenant he had made with them at Mount Sinai.[fn]

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Unchecked Copy Box Deu 32:49

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 32:49 - “Go to Moab, to the mountains east of the river,[fn] and climb Mount Nebo, which is across from Jericho. Look out across the land of Canaan, the land I am giving to the people of Israel as their own special possession.

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Unchecked Copy Box Deu 34:1

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 34:1 - Then Moses went up to Mount Nebo from the plains of Moab and climbed Pisgah Peak, which is across from Jericho. And the LORD showed him the whole land, from Gilead as far as Dan;

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Unchecked Copy Box Deu 34:5

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 34:5 - So Moses, the servant of the LORD, died there in the land of Moab, just as the LORD had said.

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Unchecked Copy Box Deu 34:6

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 34:6 - The LORD buried him[fn] in a valley near Beth-peor in Moab, but to this day no one knows the exact place.

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Unchecked Copy Box Deu 34:8

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 34:8 - The people of Israel mourned for Moses on the plains of Moab for thirty days, until the customary period of mourning was over.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jos 13:32

Unchecked Copy BoxJos 13:32 - These are the allotments Moses had made while he was on the plains of Moab, across the Jordan River, east of Jericho.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jos 24:9

Unchecked Copy BoxJos 24:9 - Then Balak son of Zippor, king of Moab, started a war against Israel. He summoned Balaam son of Beor to curse you,

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Unchecked Copy Box Jdg 3:12

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 3:12 - Once again the Israelites did evil in the LORD’s sight, and the LORD gave King Eglon of Moab control over Israel because of their evil.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jdg 3:14

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 3:14 - And the Israelites served Eglon of Moab for eighteen years.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jdg 3:15

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 3:15 - But when the people of Israel cried out to the LORD for help, the LORD again raised up a rescuer to save them. His name was Ehud son of Gera, a left-handed man of the tribe of Benjamin. The Israelites sent Ehud to deliver their tribute money to King Eglon of Moab.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jdg 3:17

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 3:17 - He brought the tribute money to Eglon, who was very fat.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jdg 3:28

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 3:28 - “Follow me,” he said, “for the LORD has given you victory over Moab your enemy.” So they followed him. And the Israelites took control of the shallow crossings of the Jordan River across from Moab, preventing anyone from crossing.

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