moabite in English

noun
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a member of a Semitic people living in Moab in biblical times, traditionally descended from Lot.
That stone contains an inscription showing that the Moabites also killed everything living of their enemies.
adjective
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of or relating to Moab or its people.
You tried to correlate early Moabite languages to Wanderer dialects.

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1. 23 Look also at the Moabite Stone.

2. Stone relief of a Moabite warrior or god (between 11th and 8th century B.C.E.)

3. Noteworthy among such ancient alphabetic inscriptions is the Moabite Stone.

4. She might well have suffered again later when her sons married Moabite women.

5. Later, his two sons married the Moabite girls Ruth and Orpah.

6. The Moabite woman Ruth was just one well-known example of such. —Ruth 1:3, 16.

7. One of the main characters —Jamin— was initially torn between the allure of the Moabite women and his devotion to Jehovah.

8. To Israelite men who were weary of life in the wilderness, the Moabite and Midianite women who enticed them may at first have seemed friendly and hospitable.

9. (Jer 48:20-23) Ezekiel includes Baal-meon as one of the Moabite sites to be possessed by the “Orientals” (or, “sons of the East”).

10. ▪ How many Israelites died for having immoral relations with Moabite women and for engaging in the worship of the Baal of Peor?

11. When Judges refers to Ammonite territory between Arnon and Jabbok this could refer to an area that was once actually ruled by Ammon and then conquered by Sihon (according to one opinion with Moab Conquering that land in between) or to a land that was really Moabite, with the Ammonite king representing Moabite interests.

12. In 1873 the Moabite Stone was restored, with plaster casts of the missing text added, and put on exhibition in the Louvre museum, Paris, where it has remained.

13. (Ruth 1:10) The Moabite widows Ruth and Orpah kept saying this to their widowed mother-in-law, Naomi, who was returning from Moab to Bethlehem.

14. 7 Forty years later, when the nation of Israel was about to enter the Promised Land, attractive Moabite and Midianite women lured many Israelites to come and enjoy their hospitality.

15. As a result, many of God’s people were seduced by Moabite women, and 24,000 were put to death for their immoral conduct.—Numbers 25:1-9; 31:15, 16; Revelation 2:14.