Moabites

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The Moabites were an ancient Semitic people living east of the Dead Sea, frequently depicted in the Hebrew Bible as neighbors and adversaries of Israel.

All labels observed (5)

Label Occurrences
Moabites canonical 21
Moabite 2
Moabite culture 2

How this entity was disambiguated

Statements (55)

Predicate Object
instanceOf Semitic people
ancient people
alliedWith Ammonite
surface form: Ammonites

Edom
surface form: Edomites
ancestralFigure Lot
Moab
biblicalBookAssociated Book of Ruth
biblicalFigureAssociated Balaam
king of Moab
surface form: Balak king of Moab

Ruth
surface form: Ruth the Moabite
capital Dibon
chiefDeity Chemosh
conflictWith Ahab of Israel
Jehoram of Israel
Northern Kingdom of Israel
surface form: Kingdom of Israel

Kingdom of Judah
Omri
surface form: Omri of Israel
culturalRegion Levant region
surface form: Levant
describedAs adversaries of Israel in the Hebrew Bible
ethnicity Northwest Semitic
ethnonymDerivedFrom Moab
flourishedDuring Iron Age
importantCity Ar of Moab
Dibon
Riblah
surface form: Kir-hareseth

Medeba
Nebo
knownFromSource Assyrian inscriptions
Egyptian inscriptions
Mesha Stele
locatedInThePast Jordan
surface form: Transjordan

east of the Dead Sea
region of Moab
mainLanguage Moabite language
mentionedIn Tanakh
surface form: Hebrew Bible

Bible
surface form: Old Testament
modernTerritoryOverlap Jordan
neighborOf Israelites
notableKing Mesha
originStory descendants of Moab son of Lot
politicalOrganization kingdom
portrayedAs both hostile and hospitable to Israelites in biblical narratives
relatedEthnicallyTo Ammonite
surface form: Ammonites

Edom
surface form: Edomites

Israelites
religion West Semitic polytheism
rulerTitle king of Moab
scriptUsed Paleo-Hebrew script
Phoenician alphabet
subjectTo Assyria
surface form: Assyrian Empire

Neo-Babylonian Empire
surface form: Babylonian Empire
timePeriod first millennium BCE
late second millennium BCE
worshipedDeity Chemosh
surface form: Ashtar-Chemosh

Chemosh

How these facts were elicited

Referenced by (27)

Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.

Judges featuresEnemyGroup Moabites
subject surface form: Book of Judges
Moabite ethnicGroup Moabites
Edomite closelyRelatedTo Moabites
this entity surface form: Moabite
land of Moab inhabitedBy Moabites
Moab ethnonym Moabites
Orpah nationality Moabites
this entity surface form: Moabite
Ehud opponent Moabites
Ehud ledAttackAgainst Moabites
Edom relatedPeople Moabites
Khirbet al-Mudayna inscriptions culturalContext Moabites
this entity surface form: Moabite culture
Mesha Stele mentionsPeople Moabites
Chemosh ethnicAssociation Moabites
King Omri recognizedBy Moabites
Moabite language spokenBy Moabites
Dibon associatedPeople Moabites
Ar of Moab ethnicContext Moabites
Nebo associatedWith Moabites
Heshbon associatedWithPeople Moabites
Moab son of Lot progenitorOf Moabites
Moab son of Lot ethnicProgenitorOf Moabites
this entity surface form: Moabite people
Moab son of Lot associatedWithPeople Moabites
this entity surface form: Moabite nation
Medeba associatedWith Moabites
Medeba hasCulturalContext Moabites
this entity surface form: Moabite culture