Moabite

2 9.9

A person from the ancient kingdom east of the Dead Sea

: moabita

The lectionary continues this week with the story of Naomi and her Moabite daughter-in-law, Ruth.
Ruth, a Moabite
Moabite woman

Balaam had been asked by a Moabite.

Examples

Scholars differ on whether this God is a transmutation of earlier Egyptian or Moabite deities.

Academic text (1997)
He cut off his locks of hair, shaved off his beard, and donned Moabite clothing to make his way easier.

Fiction book (2001)
God blessed this Moabite girl through her unwavering dedication and hard work.

Blog text (34)
They listened to their own desires and thoughts and did as they pleased, even unto taking Moabite wives for themselves.

Fiction book (2001)
Ruth was a Moabite (a big no-no back then; men were forbidden from marrying foreign wives).

Blog text (19)
In it, Balak, a Moabite king, hires Balaam, a sorcerer, to put a curse on the Israelite people.

Blog text (26)
They're going to reside in the country of Moab, where the Moabites live and their two sons, Mary, Moabite women Orpa and Ruth.
He immediately recognized it to be a crude forgery, haphazardly combining ninth-century Hebrew letter forms with seventh-century Aramaic and Moabite.

Academic text (2003)
Ruth the Moabite showed great loyalty to Naomi as she traveled from Moab to Israel.
In the ancient texts, a Moabite is referenced as a member of the tribe that settled east of the Dead Sea.

Moabite main

Moabite = Moab (semi-transparent) = Moab + ite

Clear morphological formation from the place name plus '-ite' meaning 'a person from Moab', but requires knowledge of 'Moab' for full comprehension.

Moabite means a person from Moab, the ancient land 'east of the Dead Sea', so a Moabite was a member of that old people or community.