מוֹאָבִי

mo.a.viMoabite
hebrewOld TestamentName of a people group16 occurrences7 books16 verses
This word comes from the name of Moab.

Definition

feminine מוֹאָבִיָּה; or מוֹאָבִיתxlit Môwâbîyth corrected to Môwʼâbîyth; patronymical from H4124; a Moabite or Moabitess, i.e. a descendant from Moab
Traditional renderings: (woman) of Moab, Moabite(-ish, -ss).

Glossary entries

Moab, Moabites

Where it occurs

Old TestamentNew Testament

Occurrences

16 total
  1. Deuteronomy 2:11וְהַמֹּ֣אָבִ֔ים · though the Moabites
    Like the Anakites, they were also regarded as Rephaim, though the Moabites called them Emites.
  2. Deuteronomy 2:29וְהַמּ֣וֹאָבִ֔ים · and the Moabites
    …just as the descendants of Esau who live in Seir and the Moabites who live in Ar did for us, until we cross the Jordan into the land that the LORD our God is giving us.”
  3. Deuteronomy 23:3וּמוֹאָבִ֖י · or Moabite
    No Ammonite or Moabite or any of their descendants may enter the assembly of the LORD, even to the tenth generation.
  4. Ruth 1:4מֹֽאֲבִיּ֔וֹת · Moabite
    …who took Moabite women as their wives, one named Orpah and the other named Ruth. And after they had lived in Moab about ten years,
  5. Ruth 1:22הַמּוֹאֲבִיָּ֤ה · the Moabitess
    So Naomi returned from the land of Moab with her daughter-in-law Ruth the Moabitess. And they arrived in Bethlehem at the beginning of the barley harvest.
  6. Ruth 2:2הַמּוֹאֲבִיָּ֜ה · the Moabitess
    And Ruth the Moabitess said to Naomi, “Please let me go into the fields and glean heads of grain after someone in whose sight I may find favor.” “Go ahead, my daughter,” Naomi replied.
  7. Ruth 2:6מֽוֹאֲבִיָּה֙ · the Moabitess
    The foreman answered, “She is the Moabitess who returned with Naomi from the land of Moab.
  8. Ruth 2:21הַמּוֹאֲבִיָּ֑ה · the Moabitess
    Then Ruth the Moabitess said, “He also told me, ‘Stay with my young men until they have finished gathering all my harvest.’”
  9. Ruth 4:5הַמּוֹאֲבִיָּ֤ה · the Moabitess
    Then Boaz said, “On the day you buy the land from Naomi and also from Ruth the Moabitess, you must also acquire the widow of the deceased in order to raise up the name of the deceased on his inheritance.”
  10. Ruth 4:10הַמֹּאֲבִיָּה֩ · the Moabitess
    Moreover, I have acquired Ruth the Moabitess, Mahlon’s widow, as my wife, to raise up the name of the deceased through his inheritance, so that his name will not disappear from among his brothers or from the gate of his home. You are witnesses today.”
  11. 1 Kings 11:1מוֹאֲבִיּ֤וֹת · women of Moab
    King Solomon, however, loved many foreign women along with the daughter of Pharaoh—women of Moab, Ammon, Edom, and Sidon, as well as Hittite women.
  12. 1 Chronicles 11:46הַמּוֹאָבִֽי׃ · the Moabite
    Eliel the Mahavite, Jeribai and Joshaviah, the sons of Elnaam, Ithmah the Moabite,
  13. 2 Chronicles 24:26הַמּוֹאָבִֽית׃ · the Moabitess
    Those who conspired against Joash were Zabad son of Shimeath the Ammonitess and Jehozabad son of Shimrith the Moabitess.
  14. Ezra 9:1הַמֹּ֣אָבִ֔י · Moabites
    After these things had been accomplished, the leaders approached me and said, “The people of Israel, including the priests and Levites, have not kept themselves separate from the surrounding peoples whose abominations are like those of the Canaanites, Hittites, Perizzites, Jebusites, Ammonites, Moabites, Egyptians, and Amorites.
  15. Nehemiah 13:1וּמֹאָבִ֛י · or Moabite
    At that time the Book of Moses was read aloud in the hearing of the people, and in it they found the passage stating that no Ammonite or Moabite should ever enter the assembly of God,
  16. Nehemiah 13:23מוֹאֲבִיּֽוֹת׃ · and Moab
    In those days I also saw Jews who had married women from Ashdod, Ammon, and Moab.