מוֹאָב

Strong’s Definition

Moab, an incestuous son of Lot; also his territory and descendants

Etymology & Derivation

from a prolonged form of the prepositional prefix m-and H1 (אָב); from (her (the mother's)) father;

KJV Usage

Moab.

Detailed Definition

From the Brown–Driver–Briggs (BDB) Hebrew lexicon outline.

• 1.(n pr m) a son of lot by his eldest daughter
• 2.the nation descended from the son of lot
• 3.(n pr loc) the land inhabited by the descendants of the son of lot

Scholarly Notes

Transliteration: Môwʼâb; Pronunciation: mo-awb