moavi · Moabite

What it means

moavi (מוֹאָבִי) is a Hebrew word of the Bible that means “Moabite”.

A descendant of Moab, the son of Lot.

How to say it

Approximate pronunciation. Vowels sound as in Spanish (a as in father, e as in bed, i as in machine, o as in note, u as in rule); the syllable in bold is stressed. The voice is your device's.

Its senses in the Bible

1. Someone from the people of Moab.

From Brown-Driver-Briggs (1906)

How it is translated

The words this translation uses for it, most frequent first.

• Moabite ×14
• Moabites ×2

Where it appears

• Deuteronomy×3
• Ruth×7
• 1 Kings×1
• 1 Chronicles×1
• 2 Chronicles×1
• Ezra×1
• Nehemiah×2

• Deuteronomy 2:11

  They too were counted as Rephaim, like the Anakim, but the Moabites call them Emim.

• Deuteronomy 2:29

  just as the sons of Esau who live in Seir and the Moabites who live in Ar did for me, until I cross the Jordan into the land that YHWH our Elohim is giving us.”

• Deuteronomy 23:3

  An Ammonite or a Moabite shall not enter the assembly of YHWH; even to the tenth generation none of theirs shall enter the assembly of YHWH, forever,

• Ruth 1:4

  They took for themselves Moabite wives; the name of the one was Orpah, and the name of the second Ruth. And they lived there about ten years.

• Ruth 1:22

  So Naomi returned, and Ruth the Moabite, her daughter-in-law, with her, who returned from the fields of Moab. And they came to Bethlehem at the beginning of the barley harvest.

• Ruth 2:2

  And Ruth the Moabite said to Naomi, “Let me go, please, to the field and glean among the ears of grain behind the one in whose eyes I find favor.” She said to her, “Go, my daughter.”

• Ruth 2:6

  The young man who was set over the reapers answered and said, “She is a Moabite young woman, the one who returned with Naomi from the field of Moab.

• Ruth 2:21

  And Ruth the Moabite said, “He also said to me, ‘Cling to the young men who are mine until they have finished all the harvest that is mine.’”

• Ruth 4:5

  Then Boaz said, “On the day you acquire the field from the hand of Naomi and from Ruth the Moabite, the wife of the dead man, you acquire it to raise up the name of the dead man on his inheritance.”

• Ruth 4:10

  And also Ruth the Moabite, the wife of Mahlon, I have acquired for myself as wife, to raise up the name of the dead man on his inheritance, so that the name of the dead man may not be cut off from among his brothers and from the gate of his place. You are witnesses today.”

• 1 Kings 11:1

  And King Solomon loved many foreign women, as well as the daughter of Pharaoh: Moabite, Ammonite, Edomite, Sidonian, and Hittite women,

• 1 Chronicles 11:46

  Eliel the Mahavite; and Jeribai and Joshaviah sons of Elnaam; and Ithmah the Moabite;

• 2 Chronicles 24:26

  These are the ones who conspired against him: Zabad son of Shimeath the Ammonite woman, and Jehozabad son of Shimrith the Moabite woman.

• Ezra 9:1

  And when these things were finished, the officials approached me, saying, “The people of Israel and the priests and the Levites have not separated themselves from the peoples of the lands, according to their abominations, those of the Canaanite, the Hittite, the Perizzite, the Jebusite, the Ammonite, the Moabite, the Egyptian, and the Amorite.

• Nehemiah 13:1

  On that day it was read in the book of Moses in the hearing of the people, and there was found written in it that an Ammonite or a Moabite should not enter the assembly of Elohim forever,

• Nehemiah 13:23

  Also in those days I saw the Jews who had married Ashdodite, Ammonite, and Moabite women.