Original: מֹואָב

Transliteration: Môwʼâb

Phonetic: mo-awb

Short 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

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

Part(s) of speech:

Cognate: H4125