Definitions for Moabite

Moabite Mo·ab·ite

Spelling: [moh-uh-bahyt]
IPA: /ˈmoʊ əˌbaɪt/

Moabite is a 7 letter English word.

You can make 197 anagrams from letters in Moabite (abeimot).

Definitions for Moabite

noun

  1. an inhabitant or native of Moab.
  2. an extinct language of Moab, in the Canaanite group of Semitic languages.

adjective

  1. Also, Moabitic [moh-uh-bit-ik] /ˌmoʊ əˈbɪt ɪk/ (Show IPA), Moabitish [moh-uh-bahy-tish] /ˈmoʊ əˌbaɪ tɪʃ/ (Show IPA). of or relating to the ancient kingdom of Moab, its people, or their language.

Origin of Moabite

1350-1400; Middle English Latin Mōabīta Greek Mōabī́tēs, representing Hebrew mōābī. See Moab, -ite1

Examples for Moabite

At the same time, Midianitish supremacy did not mean the destruction of the Moabite kingdom.

It rested like a swallow's nest on the lofty edge of the Moabite plateau.

The Moabite Stone explains the occurrence of Reubenite cities in these lists.

Moses died on the summit of a Moabite mountain and his place was taken by Joshua.

How came it that the Moabite army was so completely in David's power?

Possibly the Moabite prince was not ill pleased to befriend the enemy of his own enemy, the King of Israel.

"Woe to the man that should say differently," replied the Moabite, feeling the flattery.

Jehoshaphat did not say to a Moabite or an Ammonite, "I am as thou art."

Otherwise the character resembles that of the Moabite Stone.

On the Moabite Stone the word occurs as meaning the stone itself.

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