Moabites
E107163
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 |
| Moabite nation | 1 |
| Moabite people | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T899349 — resolving that mention is where its identity was fixed. The disambiguator weighed these candidate entities and picked the highlighted one (or “None”, minting a new entity). This is how homonymy is resolved: the same surface form can point to different entities.
Target entity: Moabites Context triple: [Book of Judges, featuresEnemyGroup, Moabites]
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A.
Moabite
Moabite is an ancient Northwest Semitic language once spoken by the Moabite people east of the Dead Sea, known primarily from a small corpus of inscriptions such as the Mesha Stele.
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B.
Jebusites
The Jebusites were an ancient Canaanite people known primarily as the pre-Israelite inhabitants of Jerusalem (then called Jebus) in the Hebrew Bible.
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C.
Edomite
Edomite was an extinct Northwest Semitic language once spoken by the ancient Edomites in the region south of the Kingdom of Judah.
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D.
Ishmaelites
The Ishmaelites are a group in biblical and later traditions regarded as the descendants of Ishmael, often associated with nomadic tribes of the Arabian desert.
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E.
Midian
Midian is a biblical figure regarded as one of Abraham’s sons and traditionally seen as the ancestor of the Midianite people.
- F. None of above. chosen
- G. Unsure - the case is ambiguous/there is not enough information to decide.
Target entity: Moabites Target entity description: 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.
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A.
Moabite
Moabite is an ancient Northwest Semitic language once spoken by the Moabite people east of the Dead Sea, known primarily from a small corpus of inscriptions such as the Mesha Stele.
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B.
Jebusites
The Jebusites were an ancient Canaanite people known primarily as the pre-Israelite inhabitants of Jerusalem (then called Jebus) in the Hebrew Bible.
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C.
Edomite
Edomite was an extinct Northwest Semitic language once spoken by the ancient Edomites in the region south of the Kingdom of Judah.
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D.
Ishmaelites
The Ishmaelites are a group in biblical and later traditions regarded as the descendants of Ishmael, often associated with nomadic tribes of the Arabian desert.
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E.
Midian
Midian is a biblical figure regarded as one of Abraham’s sons and traditionally seen as the ancestor of the Midianite people.
- F. None of above. chosen
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
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Subject: Moabites Description of subject: 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.
Referenced by (27)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.