Moab: meaning of the name

Moab in Hebrew and Greek

Who named Moab in the Bible

• Moab, son of Lot

  149 verses · first mentioned in Genesis 19:37

Places named Moab

• Moab (1)
• Moab (2)

Moab in Scripture

“Moab” appears in 151 verses of the King James Version; here are the first 8.

• Genesis 19:37

  And the firstborn bare a son, and called his name Moab: the same is the father of the Moabites unto this day.

• Genesis 36:35

  And Husham died, and Hadad the son of Bedad, who smote Midian in the field of Moab, reigned in his stead: and the name of his city was Avith.

• Exodus 15:15

  Then the dukes of Edom shall be amazed; the mighty men of Moab, trembling shall take hold upon them; all the inhabitants of Canaan shall melt away.

• Numbers 21:11

  And they journeyed from Oboth, and pitched at Ije–abarim, in the wilderness which is before Moab, toward the sunrising.

• Numbers 21:13

  From thence they removed, and pitched on the other side of Arnon, which is in the wilderness that cometh out of the coasts of the Amorites: for Arnon is the border of Moab, between Moab and the Amorites.

• Numbers 21:15

  And at the stream of the brooks that goeth down to the dwelling of Ar, and lieth upon the border of Moab.

• Numbers 21:20

  And from Bamoth in the valley, that is in the country of Moab, to the top of Pisgah, which looketh toward Jeshimon.

• Numbers 21:26

  For Heshbon was the city of Sihon the king of the Amorites, who had fought against the former king of Moab, and taken all his land out of his hand, even unto Arnon.