This name belongs to 3 different people and places in the Bible:
- Moab: Son of Lot, born from an incestuous relationship
- Moab: Ancient kingdom east of the Dead Sea in Jordan
- Plains of Moab: Region east of the Jordan River, opposite Jericho
Definition
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
Traditional renderings: Moab.
Traditional renderings: Moab.
Glossary entries
Where it occurs
Occurrences
181 total
- Jeremiah 48:26מוֹאָב֙ · so Moab“Make him drunk, because he has magnified himself against the LORD; so Moab will wallow in his own vomit, and he will also become a laughingstock.
- Jeremiah 48:28מוֹאָ֑ב · of MoabAbandon the towns and settle among the rocks, O dwellers of Moab! Be like a dove that nests at the mouth of a cave.
- Jeremiah 48:29מוֹאָ֖ב · of Moab’sWe have heard of Moab’s pomposity, his exceeding pride and conceit, his proud arrogance and haughtiness of heart.
- Jeremiah 48:31 (2×)מוֹאָ֣ב · Moab; וּלְמוֹאָ֥ב · of MoabTherefore I will wail for Moab; I will cry out for all of Moab; I will moan for the men of Kir-heres.
- Jeremiah 48:33מוֹאָ֑ב · of MoabJoy and gladness are removed from the orchard and from the fields of Moab. I have stopped the flow of wine from the presses; no one treads them with shouts of joy; their shouts are not for joy.
- Jeremiah 48:35לְמוֹאָ֖ב · In MoabIn Moab, declares the LORD, I will bring an end to those who make offerings on the high places and burn incense to their gods.
- Jeremiah 48:36לְמוֹאָב֙ · for MoabTherefore My heart laments like a flute for Moab; it laments like a flute for the men of Kir-heres, because the wealth they acquired has perished.
- Jeremiah 48:38 (2×)מוֹאָ֛ב · of Moab; מוֹאָ֗ב · MoabOn all the rooftops of Moab and in the public squares, everyone is mourning; for I have shattered Moab like an unwanted jar,” declares the LORD.
- Jeremiah 48:39 (2×)מוֹאָ֖ב · Moab; מוֹאָ֛ב · Moab“How shattered it is! How they wail! How Moab has turned his back in shame! Moab has become an object of ridicule and horror to all those around him.”
- Jeremiah 48:40מוֹאָֽב׃ · MoabFor this is what the LORD says: “Behold, an eagle swoops down and spreads his wings against Moab.
- Jeremiah 48:41מוֹאָב֙ · of Moab’sKirioth has been taken, and the strongholds seized. In that day the heart of Moab’s warriors will be like the heart of a woman in labor.
- Jeremiah 48:42מוֹאָ֖ב · MoabMoab will be destroyed as a nation because he vaunted himself against the LORD.
- Jeremiah 48:43מוֹאָ֖ב · of MoabTerror and pit and snare await you, O dweller of Moab,” declares the LORD.
- Jeremiah 48:44מוֹאָ֛ב · Moab“Whoever flees the panic will fall into the pit, and whoever climbs from the pit will be caught in the snare. For I will bring upon Moab the year of their punishment,” declares the LORD.
- Jeremiah 48:45מוֹאָ֔ב · of Moab“Those who flee will stand helpless in Heshbon’s shadow, because fire has gone forth from Heshbon and a flame from within Sihon. It devours the foreheads of Moab and the skulls of the sons of tumult.
- Jeremiah 48:46מוֹאָ֔ב · O MoabWoe to you, O Moab! The people of Chemosh have perished; for your sons have been taken into exile and your daughters have gone into captivity.
- Jeremiah 48:47 (2×)מוֹאָ֛ב · Moab; מוֹאָֽב׃ס · on MoabYet in the latter days I will restore Moab from captivity,” declares the LORD. Here ends the judgment on Moab.
- Ezekiel 25:8מוֹאָב֙ · MoabThis is what the Lord GOD says: ‘Because Moab and Seir said, “Look, the house of Judah is like all the other nations,”
- Ezekiel 25:9מוֹאָב֙ · of Moab…therefore I will indeed expose the flank of Moab beginning with its frontier cities—Beth-jeshimoth, Baal-meon, and Kiriathaim—the glory of the land.
- Ezekiel 25:11וּבְמוֹאָ֖ב · on MoabSo I will execute judgments on Moab, and they will know that I am the LORD.’
- Daniel 11:41וּמוֹאָ֔ב · MoabHe will also invade the Beautiful Land, and many countries will fall. But these will be delivered from his hand: Edom, Moab, and the leaders of the Ammonites.
- Amos 2:1מוֹאָ֔ב · of MoabThis is what the LORD says: “For three transgressions of Moab, even four, I will not revoke My judgment, because he burned to lime the bones of Edom’s king.
- Amos 2:2 (2×)בְּמוֹאָ֔ב · against Moab; מוֹאָ֔ב · MoabSo I will send fire against Moab to consume the citadels of Kerioth. Moab will die in tumult, amid war cries and the sound of the ram’s horn.
- Micah 6:5מוֹאָ֔ב · of MoabMy people, remember what Balak king of Moab counseled and what Balaam son of Beor answered. Remember your journey from Shittim to Gilgal, so that you may acknowledge the righteousness of the LORD.’”
- Zephaniah 2:8מוֹאָ֔ב · of Moab“I have heard the reproach of Moab and the insults of the Ammonites, who have taunted My people and threatened their borders.
- Zephaniah 2:9מוֹאָ֞ב · MoabTherefore, as surely as I live,” declares the LORD of Hosts, the God of Israel, “surely Moab will be like Sodom and the Ammonites like Gomorrah—a place of weeds and salt pits, a perpetual wasteland. The remnant of My people will plunder them; the remainder of My nation will dispossess them.”