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 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 (27)

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