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Moab

Also called Moabites, Moabitess, and Moabitish

Mentioned 1895–444 BC traditional (Jones)

Used to denote the people of Moab (Num. 22:3-14; Judg. 3:30; 2 Sam. 8:2; Jer. 48:11, 13).

From Easton’s Bible Dictionary (1897).

Father
Lot
Mother
Daughter of Lot - Older
Half-siblings
Ben-ammi, Daughter of Lot - Older, Daughter of Lot - Younger
Tagged in
20 verses

Computed from the data. Years are traditional (Jones).

Family

Two generations up and the children. Gold lines join partners; grey lines run from parent to child; a dotted line marks a parent named in the text but not by descent.

Places

Places named in the same verses as Moab, with the number of verses they share; a larger marker means more. Locations follow OpenBible.info, which grades each identification. A dashed ring on the map marks a region, river, or mountain rather than a town.

  1. location not graded: Moab16
  2. location not graded: Ammon3
  3. location not graded: Jordan3
  4. uncertain location: Avith2
  5. likely location: Jericho2
  6. location not graded: Midian2
  7. location not graded: Mount Seir2
  8. location not graded: Abarim1
  9. likely location: Abel-shittim1
  10. likely location: Beth-jeshimoth1
  11. likely location: Cozeba1
  12. location not graded: Edom1
  13. location not graded: Egypt1
  14. possible location: Iye-abarim1
  15. location unknown: Lehem1
  16. possible location: Oboth1
  17. location not graded: Seir1

Timeline

The strip runs from Creation to AD 100; the shaded part, 1939–1676 BC, is drawn below at a larger scale around these mentions, with 6 contemporaries. Years are traditional (Jones), shown as recorded, not as settled fact.

Mentions

20 tagged verses in 7 books. Select a book to read its verses.

  1. Genesis2
  2. Numbers4
  3. Ruth4
  4. 2 Kings2
  5. 1 Chronicles3
  6. 2 Chronicles4
  7. Psalms1

Later verses tagged with Moab are about Moab (the nation), not the man: 129 verses, counted separately.

The name in each translation

TextOccurrences of each name
BSBMoab 161Moabites 22Moabitess 7Moabitish 0
KJVMoab 168Moabites 19Moabitess 6Moabitish 1
ASVMoab 171Moabites 16Moabitess 6Moabitish 1

Whole-word, case-sensitive count of the name string (regex \bName\b, so possessives like "Abraham's" count) across the whole Bible text of each translation; this counts the string, not the person, so other people who share the name are included and pronoun references are not. How Begat counts

Every verse

All 20 tagged verses, by book, in canonical order. The Berean Standard Bible is shown; switch to the King James or American Standard Version.

Genesis2 verses
  1. 19:37

    The older daughter gave birth to a son and named him Moab. He is the father of the Moabites of today.

  2. 36:35

    When Husham died, Hadad son of Bedad, who defeated Midian in the country of Moab, reigned in his place. And the name of his city was Avith.

Numbers4 verses
  1. 33:44

    They set out from Oboth and camped at Iye-abarim on the border of Moab.

  2. 33:48

    They set out from the mountains of Abarim and camped on the plains of Moab by the Jordan across from Jericho.

  3. 33:49

    And there on the plains of Moab they camped by the Jordan, from Beth-jeshimoth to Abel-shittim.

  4. 33:50

    On the plains of Moab by the Jordan across from Jericho, the LORD said to Moses,

Ruth4 verses
  1. 1:1

    In the days when the judges ruled, there was a famine in the land. And a certain man from Bethlehem in Judah, with his wife and two sons, went to reside in the land of Moab.

  2. 1:2

    The man’s name was Elimelech, his wife’s name was Naomi, and the names of his two sons were Mahlon and Chilion. They were Ephrathites from Bethlehem in Judah, and they entered the land of Moab and settled there.

  3. 1:4

    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,

  4. 4:3

    And he said to the kinsman-redeemer, “Naomi, who has returned from the land of Moab, is selling the piece of land that belonged to our brother Elimelech.

2 Kings2 verses
  1. 3:4

    Now Mesha king of Moab was a sheep breeder, and he would render to the king of Israel a hundred thousand lambs and the wool of a hundred thousand rams.

  2. 3:5

    But after the death of Ahab, the king of Moab rebelled against the king of Israel.

1 Chronicles3 verses
  1. 1:46

    When Husham died, Hadad son of Bedad, who defeated Midian in the country of Moab, reigned in his place. And the name of his city was Avith.

  2. 4:22

    Jokim, the men of Cozeba, and Joash and Saraph, who ruled in Moab and Jashubi-lehem. (These names are from ancient records.)

  3. 8:8

    Shaharaim had sons in the country of Moab after he had divorced his wives Hushim and Baara.

2 Chronicles4 verses
  1. 20:1

    After this, the Moabites and Ammonites, together with some of the Meunites, came to make war against Jehoshaphat.

  2. 20:10

    And now, here are the men of Ammon, Moab, and Mount Seir, whom You did not let Israel invade when they came out of the land of Egypt. So Israel turned away from them and did not destroy them.

  3. 20:22

    The moment they began their shouts and praises, the LORD set ambushes against the men of Ammon, Moab, and Mount Seir who had come against Judah, and they were defeated.

  4. 20:23

    The Ammonites and Moabites rose up against the inhabitants of Mount Seir, devoting them to destruction. And when they had finished off the inhabitants of Seir, they helped to destroy one another.

Psalms1 verse
  1. 83:6

    the tents of Edom and the Ishmaelites, of Moab and the Hagrites,

Easton’s Bible Dictionary

The full entry, public domain, as printed in 1897.

Used to denote the people of Moab (Num. 22:3-14; Judg. 3:30; 2 Sam. 8:2; Jer. 48:11, 13).