Moabitess
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Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary
(n.) A female Moabite.
International Standard Bible Encyclopedia
MOABITESS

mo'-ab-it-es, mo-ab-i'-tes (mo'abhiyah): A woman, or in plural women, of Moab. The term is applied to Ruth (1:22; 2:2, 6, 21; 4:5, 10); to some of Solomon's wives (1 Kings 11:1); and to Shimrith, whose son shared in the murder of King Joash (2 Chronicles 24:26).

See MOAB.

Greek
4503. Rhouth -- Ruth, a Moabitess and an ancestor of Christ
... Ruth, a Moabitess and an ancestor of Christ. Part of Speech: Proper Noun, Indeclinable
Transliteration: Rhouth Phonetic Spelling: (hrooth) Short Definition ...
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Strong's Hebrew
4125. Moabi -- descendant of Moab
... Word Origin from Moab Definition desc. of Moab NASB Word Usage Moab (1), Moabite
(6), Moabites (3), Moabitess (6). woman of Moab, Moabite,. ...
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7327. Ruth -- "friendship," a Moabite ancestress of David
... 12). Ruth. Probably for r'uwth; friend; Ruth, a Moabitess -- Ruth. see HEBREW
r'uwth. 7326, 7327. Ruth. 7328 . Strong's Numbers.
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8116. Shimrith -- a Moabite woman
... Shimrith. Feminine of Shimriy; female guard; Shimrith, a Moabitess -- Shimrith.
see HEBREW Shimriy. 8115, 8116. Shimrith. 8117 . Strong's Numbers.
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Library

Ruth
... The true explanation is no doubt to be sought in the fact that Ruth the Moabitess
is counted worthy to be an ancestress of David; and, if the book be post ...
//christianbookshelf.org/mcfadyen/introduction to the old testament/ruth.htm

The Devotion of Ruth
... Ruth, the Moabitess, said to Naomi, "Let me now go into the fields and pick up the
scattered heads of grain after him whose favor I should win." Naomi said to ...
//christianbookshelf.org/sherman/the childrens bible/the devotion of ruth.htm

Scriptural Poems; Being Several Portions of Scripture Digested ...
... And Ruth, the Moabitess, did intreat Her Mother's leave, that she might go, and
gather Some ears of corn, where she should most find favour: Go, daughter, go ...
/.../scriptural poems being several portions.htm

A Gentle Heroine, a Gentile Convert
... 22. So Naomi returned, and Ruth the Moabitess, her daughter in law, with her, which
returned out of the country of Moab: and they came to Beth-lehem in the ...
/.../maclaren/expositions of holy scripture f/a gentle heroine a gentile.htm

The Moody Colportage Library
... Evans 130 Intercessory Prayer. JGK McClure 131 From Death Unto Life. JH Brookes
132 Ruth, the Moabitess. Henry Moorhouse 134 Forty-Eight Bernard Street. ...
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Writing v. But as up to that Time the Genealogies of the Hebrews ...
... public archives, and those, too, which were traced back to the proselytes [1051]
"as, for example, to Achior the Ammanite, and Ruth the Moabitess, and those ...
/.../africanus/the writings of julius africanus/writing v but as up.htm

The Kingdom of all Israel.
... to trouble his soul, Samuel's last great act was to anoint the youngest son of Jesse
the Bethlehemite, the great grandchild of the loving Moabitess, Ruth, the ...
//christianbookshelf.org/yonge/the chosen people/lesson vi the kingdom of.htm

Genealogy of Jesus According to Matthew.
... Salmon; 5 and Salmon begat Boaz of Rahab [she had been a heathen and a harlot of
Jericho]; and Boaz begat Obed of Ruth [she was a heathen Moabitess]; and Obed ...
/.../mcgarvey/the four-fold gospel/iii genealogy of jesus according.htm

The Return from the Sepulchre.
... Mara of Suphan was a Moabitess, came from the neighbourhood of Suphan, and
was a descendant of Orpha, the widow of Chelion, Noemi's son. ...
/.../the dolorous passion of our lord jesus christ/chapter liii the return from.htm

Introduction
... The genealogies given by the Hebrew writers prove how extensive this intermingling
of racial elements must have been; even David counted a Moabitess among his ...
/.../sayce/early israel and the surrounding nations/introduction.htm

Thesaurus
Moabitess (7 Occurrences)
...MOABITESS. mo'-ab-it-es, mo-ab-i'-tes (mo'abhiyah): A woman, or in plural women,
of Moab. ... See MOAB. Multi-Version Concordance Moabitess (7 Occurrences). ...
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Na'omi (21 Occurrences)
... Ruth 1:22 So Naomi returned, and Ruth the Moabitess, her daughter-in-law, with her,
who returned out of the country of Moab: and they came to Bethlehem in the ...
/n/na'omi.htm - 11k

Naomi (25 Occurrences)
... Ruth 1:22 So Naomi returned, and Ruth the Moabitess, her daughter-in-law, with her,
who returned out of the country of Moab: and they came to Bethlehem in the ...
/n/naomi.htm - 17k

Ruth (19 Occurrences)
... Easton's Bible Dictionary A friend, a Moabitess, the wife of Mahlon, whose
father, Elimelech, had settled in the land of Moab. On ...
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Orpah (2 Occurrences)
... Easton's Bible Dictionary Forelock or fawn, a Moabitess, the wife of Chilion
(Ruth 1:4; 4:10). On the death of her husband she accompanied ...
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Jehozabad (4 Occurrences)
... According to 2 Kings 12:21 (22), he was a son of Shomer, but 2 Chronicles 24:26
makes him "son of Shimrith the Moabitess." (2) A Korahite doorkeeper, son of ...
/j/jehozabad.htm - 8k

Deceased (8 Occurrences)
... Ruth 4:5 Then Boaz said, "On the day you buy the field from the hand of Naomi, you
must buy it also from Ruth the Moabitess, the wife of the dead, to raise up ...
/d/deceased.htm - 9k

Shimeath (2 Occurrences)
... even though the king had merited death) was "the son of (shim`ath), the Ammonitess"
and the other was "the son of (shimrith), the Moabitess" (compare Torrey ...
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Shimrith (1 Occurrence)
... SHIMRITH. shim'-rith (shimrith, "guard," feminine): A Moabitess, the mother of
Jehozabad, one of those that conspired against King Joash (2 Chronicles 24:26). ...
/s/shimrith.htm - 7k

Maintain (50 Occurrences)
... Ruth 4:5 Then Boaz said, "On the day you buy the field from the hand of Naomi, you
must buy it also from Ruth the Moabitess, the wife of the dead, to raise up ...
/m/maintain.htm - 21k

Resources
Who was Jesse in the Bible? | GotQuestions.org

Who was Obed in the Bible? | GotQuestions.org

Who were the Ephrathites? | GotQuestions.org

Moabitess: Dictionary and Thesaurus | Clyx.com

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Concordance
Moabitess (7 Occurrences)

Ruth 1:22
So Naomi returned, and Ruth the Moabitess, her daughter-in-law, with her, who returned out of the country of Moab: and they came to Bethlehem in the beginning of barley harvest.
(WEB KJV JPS ASV BBE DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV NIV)

Ruth 2:2
Ruth the Moabitess said to Naomi, "Let me now go to the field, and glean among the ears of grain after him in whose sight I shall find favor." She said to her, "Go, my daughter."
(WEB KJV JPS ASV BBE DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV NIV)

Ruth 2:6
And the young man who is set over the reapers answereth and saith, 'A young woman -- Moabitess -- she 'is', who came back with Naomi from the fields of Moab,
(YLT NIV)

Ruth 2:21
Ruth the Moabitess said, "Yes, he said to me,'You shall stay close to my young men, until they have ended all my harvest.'"
(WEB KJV JPS ASV BBE DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV NIV)

Ruth 4:5
Then Boaz said, "On the day you buy the field from the hand of Naomi, you must buy it also from Ruth the Moabitess, the wife of the dead, to raise up the name of the dead on his inheritance."
(WEB KJV JPS ASV BBE DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV NIV)

Ruth 4:10
Moreover Ruth the Moabitess, the wife of Mahlon, I have purchased to be my wife, to raise up the name of the dead on his inheritance, that the name of the dead not be cut off from among his brothers, and from the gate of his place. You are witnesses this day."
(WEB KJV JPS ASV BBE DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV NIV)

2 Chronicles 24:26
These are those who conspired against him: Zabad the son of Shimeath the Ammonitess, and Jehozabad the son of Shimrith the Moabitess.
(WEB KJV JPS ASV DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV)

Subtopics

Moabitess

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Naomi (25 Occurrences)

Ruth (19 Occurrences)

Orpah (2 Occurrences)

Jehozabad (4 Occurrences)

Deceased (8 Occurrences)

Shimeath (2 Occurrences)

Shimrith (1 Occurrence)

Maintain (50 Occurrences)

Boaz (25 Occurrences)

Widow (71 Occurrences)

Bought (66 Occurrences)

Bethlehem (49 Occurrences)

Buying (12 Occurrences)

Zabad (8 Occurrences)

Jeho'zabad (2 Occurrences)

Leftover (2 Occurrences)

Grain-cutting (19 Occurrences)

Glean (12 Occurrences)

Furthermore (41 Occurrences)

Daughter-in-law (16 Occurrences)

Disappear (13 Occurrences)

Mahlon (4 Occurrences)

Moabitesses (1 Occurrence)

Mo'abites (1 Occurrence)

Mahlon's (2 Occurrences)

Purchased (24 Occurrences)

Perpetuate (2 Occurrences)

Bo'az (24 Occurrences)

Barley-harvest (3 Occurrences)

Buyest (3 Occurrences)

Workers (76 Occurrences)

Commencement (22 Occurrences)

Conspiring (4 Occurrences)

Arriving (7 Occurrences)

Ammonitess (4 Occurrences)

Acquire (18 Occurrences)

Shim'e-ath (1 Occurrence)

Shomer (3 Occurrences)

Acquired (32 Occurrences)

Fields (199 Occurrences)

Raise (175 Occurrences)

Beth-lehem (49 Occurrences)

Records (50 Occurrences)

Conspired (32 Occurrences)

Accompanied (43 Occurrences)

Barley (35 Occurrences)

Answereth (144 Occurrences)

Finish (35 Occurrences)

Ammonite (22 Occurrences)

Pick (37 Occurrences)

Cleave (52 Occurrences)

Countrymen (60 Occurrences)

Native (35 Occurrences)

Restore (122 Occurrences)

Witnesses (69 Occurrences)

Completed (109 Occurrences)

Buy (71 Occurrences)

Favour (171 Occurrences)

Moabite (13 Occurrences)

Corn (107 Occurrences)

Ahead (98 Occurrences)

Further (121 Occurrences)

Turneth (249 Occurrences)

Ended (146 Occurrences)

Finished (157 Occurrences)

Memory (181 Occurrences)

Harvest (109 Occurrences)

Favor (184 Occurrences)

Harvesting (7 Occurrences)

Behind (188 Occurrences)

Woman (4043 Occurrences)

Court (172 Occurrences)

David (1052 Occurrences)

Fast (157 Occurrences)

Gather (251 Occurrences)

Gate (248 Occurrences)

Moab (162 Occurrences)

Mo'abites
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