Definition

Moab, an incestuous son of Lot; also his territory and descendants

Etymology

from a prolonged form of the prepositional prefix m-and H1 (אָב); from (her (the mother's)) father;

Word family

• אָב ʼâb

How the KJV renders it

• Moab

Every distinct English word the King James Version uses to translate this Hebrew term. The variety shows what readers in English receive across many different surface words — the same underlying word, scattered across the English Bible under different names.