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 31
Moabite 2
Moabite culture 2

How this entity was disambiguated

Statements (55)

Predicate Object
instanceOf Semitic people ⓘ
ancient people ⓘ
alliedWith Ammonites ⓘ
linked to: Ammonite

Edomites ⓘ
linked to: Edom
ancestralFigure Lot ⓘ
Moab ⓘ
biblicalBookAssociated Book of Ruth ⓘ
biblicalFigureAssociated Balaam ⓘ
Balak king of Moab ⓘ
linked to: king of Moab

Ruth the Moabite ⓘ
linked to: Ruth
capital Dibon ⓘ
chiefDeity Chemosh ⓘ
conflictWith Ahab of Israel ⓘ
Jehoram of Israel ⓘ
Kingdom of Israel ⓘ
Kingdom of Judah ⓘ
Omri of Israel ⓘ
linked to: Omri
culturalRegion Levant ⓘ
linked to: Levant region
describedAs adversaries of Israel in the Hebrew Bible ⓘ
ethnicity Northwest Semitic ⓘ
ethnonymDerivedFrom Moab ⓘ
flourishedDuring Iron Age ⓘ
importantCity Ar of Moab ⓘ
Dibon ⓘ
Kir-hareseth ⓘ
linked to: Riblah

Medeba ⓘ
Nebo ⓘ
knownFromSource Assyrian inscriptions ⓘ
Egyptian inscriptions ⓘ
Mesha Stele ⓘ
locatedInThePast Transjordan ⓘ
linked to: Jordan

east of the Dead Sea ⓘ
region of Moab ⓘ
mainLanguage Moabite language ⓘ
mentionedIn Hebrew Bible ⓘ
linked to: Tanakh

Old Testament ⓘ
linked to: Bible
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 Ammonites ⓘ
linked to: Ammonite

Edomites ⓘ
linked to: Edom

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

Babylonian Empire ⓘ
timePeriod first millennium BCE ⓘ
late second millennium BCE ⓘ
worshipedDeity Ashtar-Chemosh ⓘ
linked to: Chemosh

Chemosh ⓘ

How these facts were elicited

Referenced by (37)

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

Book of Judges → featuresEnemyGroup → Moabites ⓘ
subject linked to: Judges
Moabite → ethnicGroup → Moabites ⓘ
Edomite → closelyRelatedTo → Moabite ⓘ
linked to: Moabites
land of Moab → inhabitedBy → Moabites ⓘ
Moab → ethnonym → Moabites ⓘ
Orpah → nationality → Moabite ⓘ
linked to: Moabites
Ehud → opponent → Moabites ⓘ
Ehud → ledAttackAgainst → Moabites ⓘ
Edom → relatedPeople → Moabites ⓘ
Khirbet al-Mudayna inscriptions → culturalContext → Moabite culture ⓘ
linked to: Moabites
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 → Moabite people ⓘ
linked to: Moabites
Moab son of Lot → associatedWithPeople → Moabite nation ⓘ
linked to: Moabites
Medeba → associatedWith → Moabites ⓘ
Medeba → hasCulturalContext → Moabite culture ⓘ
linked to: Moabites
Mesha → ethnicGroup → Moabites ⓘ
king of Moab → ethnicGroup → Moabites ⓘ
Eglon → ethnicGroup → Moabites ⓘ
Midianite → relatedGroup → Moabites ⓘ
Kingdom of Moab → ethnonym → Moabites ⓘ
Dhiban → associatedWithPeople → Moabites ⓘ
Astar-Chemosh → worshippedBy → Moabites ⓘ
Ammonites → relatedPeople → Moabites ⓘ