מוֹאָבִי moavi

Hebrew word for “Moabite” · Strong’s H4125 · used 16 times in 16 verses

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Meaning

Someone from Moab, a Moabite = "from father: what father?";

How it is translated

Glosses given for moavi in context, with how often each is used:

• moabite 6
• moabite woman 6
• moabites 3
• moabite women 1

Where it is used

Chapters where it is used most

Ruth 2 (3), Deuteronomy 2 (2), Ruth 1 (2), Ruth 4 (2), Nehemiah 13 (2), Deuteronomy 23 (1), 1 Kings 11 (1), 1 Chronicles 11 (1), 2 Chronicles 24 (1), Ezra 9 (1)

Forms

• המואביה 4
• מואביות 2
• והמאבים 1
• והמואבים 1
• ומואבי 1
• מאביות 1
• מואביה 1
• המאביה 1
• המואבי 1
• המואבית 1

Words used with it

Words that share verses with moavi more often than their overall frequency would suggest:

• רוּת rut “Ruth” 6
• עַמּוֹנִי ammoni “Ammon” 6
• נׇעֳמִי noomi “Naomi” 4
• אִשָּׁה ishshah “woman” 5
• שָׂדֶה sadeh “land” 4
• גַּם gam “also” 4
• עִם im “with” 4
• חִתִּי chitti “Hittite” 2
• קָצִיר qatsir “harvest” 2
• עַד ad “till” 4
• קָנָה qanah “to buy” 2
• הֵמָּה hemmah “they(masc.)” 3

Key verses

The verses using moavi that are most connected by cross-references (King James Version):

• Deuteronomy 2:11 — Which also were accounted giants, as the Anakims; but the Moabites call them Emims.
• Deuteronomy 2:29 — (As the children of Esau which dwell in Seir, and the Moabites which dwell in Ar, did unto me;) until I shall pass over Jordan into the land which the LORD our…
• Deuteronomy 23:3 — An Ammonite or Moabite shall not enter into the congregation of the LORD; even to their tenth generation shall they not enter into the congregation of the LORD…
• Ruth 1:22 — So Naomi returned, and Ruth the Moabitess, her daughter in law, with her, which returned out of the country of Moab: and they came to Beth-lehem in the…
• Ruth 2:2 — And Ruth the Moabitess said unto Naomi, Let me now go to the field, and glean ears of corn after him in whose sight I shall find grace. And she said unto her,…
• Ruth 2:6 — And the servant that was set over the reapers answered and said, It is the Moabitish damsel that came back with Naomi out of the country of Moab:
• Ruth 4:5 — Then said Boaz, What day thou buyest the field of the hand of Naomi, thou must buy it also of Ruth the Moabitess, the wife of the dead, to raise up the name of…
• Ruth 4:10 — Moreover Ruth the Moabitess, the wife of Mahlon, have I purchased to be my wife, to raise up the name of the dead upon his inheritance, that the name of the…
• 1 Kings 11:1 — But king Solomon loved many strange women, together with the daughter of Pharaoh, women of the Moabites, Ammonites, Edomites, Zidonians, and Hittites;
• Ezra 9:1 — Now when these things were done, the princes came to me, saying, The people of Israel, and the priests, and the Levites, have not separated themselves from the…
• Nehemiah 13:1 — On that day they read in the book of Moses in the audience of the people; and therein was found written, that the Ammonite and the Moabite should not come into…
• Nehemiah 13:23 — In those days also saw I Jews that had married wives of Ashdod, of Ammon, and of Moab:

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Hebrew and Greek text, tagging, glosses and lexicon definitions: STEPBible.org, Tyndale House Cambridge (TAHOT, TAGNT, TBESH, TBESG; CC BY 4.0), adapted. Counts follow King James verse numbering; a word counts each time it is written.