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Lexicon :: Strong's H4125 - mô'āḇî

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מוֹאָבִי
Transliteration
mô'āḇî
Pronunciation
mo-aw-bee'
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Part of Speech
adjective
Root Word (Etymology)
Patronymical from מוֹאָב (H4124)
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TWOT Reference: 1155a

Strong’s Definitions

מוֹאָבִי Môwʼâbîy, mo-aw-bee'; feminine מוֹאָבִיָּה Môwʼâbîyâh; or מוֹאָבִית Môwʼâbîythxlit Môwâbîyth corrected to Môwʼâbîyth; patronymical from H4124; a Moabite or Moabitess, i.e. a descendant from Moab:—(woman) of Moab, Moabite(-ish, -ss).

KJV Translation Count — Total: 16x

The KJV translates Strong's H4125 in the following manner: Moabite (7x), Moabitess (6x), Moab (2x), Moabitish (1x).

KJV Translation Count — Total: 16x
The KJV translates Strong's H4125 in the following manner: Moabite (7x), Moabitess (6x), Moab (2x), Moabitish (1x).

  1. Moabite = "from father: what father?"

    1. an citizen of Moab

    2. an inhabitant of the land of Moab

Strong’s Definitions [?](Strong’s Definitions Legend)
מוֹאָבִי Môwʼâbîy, mo-aw-bee'; feminine מוֹאָבִיָּה Môwʼâbîyâh; or מוֹאָבִית Môwʼâbîythxlit Môwâbîyth corrected to Môwʼâbîyth; patronymical from H4124; a Moabite or Moabitess, i.e. a descendant from Moab:—(woman) of Moab, Moabite(-ish, -ss).
STRONGS H4125: Abbreviations
† מ֥וֺאָבִי, מוֺאֲבִיָּה adjective, of a people Moabitish; — מ׳ Deuteronomy 23:4 + 2 times, מֹאָבִי Ezra 9:1; plural מֹאָבִים Deuteronomy 2:11; מוֺאָב׳ Deuteronomy 2:29; feminine singular מוֺאֲבִיָּה Ruth 1:22 + 4 times; מֹאֲב׳ Ruth 4:10; מוֺאָבִית 2 Chronicles 24:26; feminine plural מוֺאֲבִיּוֺת 1 Kings 11:1; Nehemiah 13:23; מֹאֲב׳ Ruth 1:4: — masculine = a Moabite Deuteronomy 23:4; Nehemiah 13:1; הַמ׳ = the Moabite 1 Chronicles 11:46; collective = the Moabites Ezra 9:1, so plural Deuteronomy 2:11, 29; feminine plural as adjective נָשִׁים מ׳ Ruth 1:4; as substantive, 1 Kings 11:1; Nehemiah 13:23; feminine singular as adjective 2 Chronicles 24:26; especially רוּת הַמ׳ Ruth 1:22; Ruth 2:2, 21; Ruth 4:5, 10; מ׳ as noun feminine singular Ruth 2:6.
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BLB Scripture Index of Brown-Driver-Briggs

Deuteronomy

2:11; 2:11; 2:29; 2:29; 23:4; 23:4

Ruth

1:4; 1:4; 1:22; 1:22; 2:2; 2:6; 2:21; 4:5; 4:10; 4:10

1 Kings

11:1; 11:1

1 Chronicles

11:46

2 Chronicles

24:26; 24:26

Ezra

9:1; 9:1

Nehemiah

13:1; 13:23; 13:23

H4125

Word / Phrase / Strong's Search

Strong's Number H4125 matches the Hebrew מוֹאָבִי (mô'āḇî),
which occurs 16 times in 16 verses in the WLC Hebrew.

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Unchecked Copy Box Deu 2:11

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 2:11 - Both the Emites and the Anakites are also known as the Rephaites, though the Moabites call them Emites.

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Unchecked Copy Box Deu 2:29

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 2:29 - The descendants of Esau who live in Seir allowed us to go through their country, and so did the Moabites, who live in Ar. Let us pass through until we cross the Jordan into the land the LORD our God is giving us.’

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Unchecked Copy Box Deu 23:3

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 23:3 - “No Ammonite or Moabite or any of their descendants for ten generations may be admitted to the assembly of the LORD.

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Unchecked Copy Box Rth 1:4

Unchecked Copy BoxRth 1:4 - The two sons married Moabite women. One married a woman named Orpah, and the other a woman named Ruth. But about ten years later,

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Unchecked Copy Box Rth 1:22

Unchecked Copy BoxRth 1:22 - So Naomi returned from Moab, accompanied by her daughter-in-law Ruth, the young Moabite woman. They arrived in Bethlehem in late spring, at the beginning of the barley harvest.

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Unchecked Copy Box Rth 2:2

Unchecked Copy BoxRth 2:2 - One day Ruth the Moabite said to Naomi, “Let me go out into the harvest fields to pick up the stalks of grain left behind by anyone who is kind enough to let me do it.”
Naomi replied, “All right, my daughter, go ahead.”

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Unchecked Copy Box Rth 2:6

Unchecked Copy BoxRth 2:6 - And the foreman replied, “She is the young woman from Moab who came back with Naomi.

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Unchecked Copy Box Rth 2:21

Unchecked Copy BoxRth 2:21 - Then Ruth[fn] said, “What’s more, Boaz even told me to come back and stay with his harvesters until the entire harvest is completed.”

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Unchecked Copy Box Rth 4:5

Unchecked Copy BoxRth 4:5 - Then Boaz told him, “Of course, your purchase of the land from Naomi also requires that you marry Ruth, the Moabite widow. That way she can have children who will carry on her husband’s name and keep the land in the family.”

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Unchecked Copy Box Rth 4:10

Unchecked Copy BoxRth 4:10 - And with the land I have acquired Ruth, the Moabite widow of Mahlon, to be my wife. This way she can have a son to carry on the family name of her dead husband and to inherit the family property here in his hometown. You are all witnesses today.”

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Ki 11:1

Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 11:1 - Now King Solomon loved many foreign women. Besides Pharaoh’s daughter, he married women from Moab, Ammon, Edom, Sidon, and from among the Hittites.

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Ch 11:46

Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 11:46 - Eliel from Mahavah;
Jeribai and Joshaviah, the sons of Elnaam;
Ithmah from Moab;

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Ch 24:26

Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 24:26 - The assassins were Jozacar,[fn] the son of an Ammonite woman named Shimeath, and Jehozabad, the son of a Moabite woman named Shomer.[fn]

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Unchecked Copy Box Ezr 9:1

Unchecked Copy BoxEzr 9:1 - When these things had been done, the Jewish leaders came to me and said, “Many of the people of Israel, and even some of the priests and Levites, have not kept themselves separate from the other peoples living in the land. They have taken up the detestable practices of the Canaanites, Hittites, Perizzites, Jebusites, Ammonites, Moabites, Egyptians, and Amorites.

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Unchecked Copy Box Neh 13:1

Unchecked Copy BoxNeh 13:1 - On that same day, as the Book of Moses was being read to the people, the passage was found that said no Ammonite or Moabite should ever be permitted to enter the assembly of God.[fn]

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Unchecked Copy Box Neh 13:23

Unchecked Copy BoxNeh 13:23 - About the same time I realized that some of the men of Judah had married women from Ashdod, Ammon, and Moab.
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