Moabite

The Moabite and I have a plan that will save this town.

The three remained thus for some time, when the big Moabite appeared, led by one of the guards.

"I inspected it the other day and your Moabite did an excellent job on the repairs."

At whose hand was the Moabite slain but mine?

When my husband was absent it was the Moabite who protected me.

What does the word "Moabite" mean to you?

It was here that Meshab the Moabite became so valuable.

"Your job is to follow the tree," Hoopoe told the Moabite.

All were now legally Hebrews and there was no reason why a Moabite should not join them.

The men considered what might be done to obliterate this telltale line and it was the Moabite who found the solution.

The Moabite shook his head in pity.

"Hoopoe did it," the Moabite replied, and the governor realized that this was not flattery.

Reread the story of Ruth and translate "Moabite" to "black" every time you see it.

Meshab the Moabite, working on the wall, saw the trick that the clever general was playing and was incensed.

Ruth the Moabite kneels before Boaz, as his servant looks on benignly.

The big Moabite smiled.

After a while Meshab the Moabite climbed out, exulting, and the governor greeted him as an equal.

He shivered with the memory of the profanation and pleaded, "Tell me of the Moabite."

King David seems no less a Jew for having Ruth, the Moabite, as a forebear.

As Hoopoe and the Moabite talked of these things, they saw in the moonlight two Hebrew women climbing the hill.

"So David's really a, Moabite," Meshab said, "and at the same time our most cruel enemy."

The governor, remembering that Hoopoe had abused the king at the death of the Moabite, thereafter refused to speak with the little man.

She, the Moabite, is why he, when hope is embittered, murmurs the Psalms of David.

Moabite may refer to:

Most of our knowledge about Moabite comes from the Mesha Stele, which is the only known extensive text in this language.

Of course she was a Moabite woman, but so what?

Once there, Elimelech died, and his sons married two Moabite women.

There the two sons take Moabite wives, Ruth and Orpah.

By his descent from Ruth, David may be said to have had Moabite blood in his veins.

This event is recorded on the Mesha stele, an extensive inscription written in the Moabite language.

The Moabite capital was Dibon.

The inscription has been dated to the late ninth century BC and contains 3 incomplete lines written in the Moabite language.

To be sure, Ruth was a Moabite woman and it might well be that no Judean would marry her, but Boaz had proven kind.

As a result of this, "Moabite women" became the quintessence of the type of outside influence that by sexual attraction tried to subvert pious Jews.

In early times, it seems to have been written with a Canaanite alphabet; like the Moabite language language, it retained feminine '-t'.

The Mesha stele is the longest Iron Age inscription ever found in the region, the major evidence for the Moabite language, and a unique record of military campaigns.

Elimelech dies, and the sons marry two Moabite women: Mahlon marries Ruth and Chilion marries Orpah.

The book of Ruth is about a young Moabite woman's loyalty to her Jewish mother-in-law and her willingness to move to Israel and become a part of their culture.

The Moabite language is an extinct Canaanite language, spoken in Moab (modern day central-western Jordan) in the early first millennium BC.

It has been associated with the Moabites (14th or early 13th - 6th century BC), as the symbol or symbols appear on what are thought to be Moabite name seals.

Hesed, "loving kindness", and implying loyalty, is woven throughout Ruth, beginning at 1:8 with Naomi blessing her two daughters-in-law as she urges them to return to their Moabite families.

OPUS 200 301 And when Boaz asked who she was, don't read the answer as, "She is a Moabite girl," but as, "She is a black girl."

He sounded the shofar and rallied the Israelite tribes, who killed the Moabites, cutting off the fords of the Jordan River, and invaded Moab itself, killing about 10,000 Moabite soldiers.

That failed, and Balaam, on departing, was sup- posed to have advised the king of Moab to let the Moabite girls lure the desert raiders into liaisons, which might subvert their stem dedication to then- task.

He asked after her, and his reapers answered, "She is a Moabite girl . . . who has Just come back with Naomi from the Moabite country" (Ruth 2:6).

However, in about 850 BC the now-divided Israelite empire was defeated by Mesha, king of Moab, who recorded his victories on the famous Mesha Stele in the Moabite capital of Dhiban.

The oldest inscriptions in Paleo-Hebrew script are dated to around the middle of the 9th century BCE, the most famous being the Mesha Stele in the Moabite language (which might be considered a dialect of Hebrew).

The relevant articles are Hebrew language, Canaanite languages, Ammonite language, Moabite language, Edomite language, Biblical Hebrew language, Hebrew alphabet, and the categories "Category:Canaanite languages" and "Category:Hebrew language".

The stele, whose story parallels, with some differences, an episode in the bible's Books of Kings (2 Kings 3:4-8), provides invaluable information on the Moabite language and the political relationship between Moab and Israel at one moment in the 9th century BCE.

According to a legend in a midrash, the two Moabite women from the Book of Ruth Orpah and Ruth, were sisters, and both were daughters of the Moabite king Eglon (Ruth R. ii.