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Brown-Driver-Briggs /Thayer Dictionary - מֹואָב

מֹואָב

H4124

Transliteration: Môwʼâb

Pronunciation: mo-awb

Definition: Moab


Original: מואב

Transliteration: mô'âb

Phonetic: mo-awb

BDB Definition:

Moab = "of his father"
  1. a son of Lot by his eldest daughter (noun proper masculine)
  2. the nation descended from the son of Lot (noun proper masculine)
  3. the land inhabited by the descendants of the son of Lot (noun proper locative)

Origin: from a prolonged form of the prepositional prefix m- and H1" class="dictionary-topic-link">H1

TWOT entry: from (her [the mother's]) father

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