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Moab (other)
Moab is the historical name for an ancient kingdom whose former territory is located in modern-day Jordan. Moab or MOAB may also refer to: Places * Moab, Utah, a United States city * Newman Lake, Washington, an unincorporated community alternatively known as Moab Arts and entertainment * "Moab", a song by Conor Oberst from ''Conor Oberst'' * Moab, a fictional planet in the comic strip ''The Ballad of Halo Jones'' * MOAB, an enemy in the tower defense game series ''Bloons Tower Defense'' Science and technology * GBU-43/B MOAB (Massive Ordnance Air Blast), or Mother Of All Bombs * Moab Cluster Suite, a cluster workload management package * Monoclonal antibody (MoAb), identical antibodies produced by offspring of a single parent cell * Novell "Moab", codename for Novell NetWare 5.0 * Month of Apple Bugs (MoAB), a month of bugs computer security strategy Other uses * Moab, the first son of Lot and patriarch of the kingdom of Moab, mentioned in the Hebrew Bible * Mother of all ba ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Moab
Moab ''Mลรกb''; Assyrian: ๐ฌ๐ช๐๐๐ ''Mu'abรข'', ๐ ๐ช๐๐๐ ''Ma'bรข'', ๐ ๐ช๐ ''Ma'ab''; Egyptian: ๐๐๐๐ ฑ๐ ''Mลซ'ฤซbลซ'', name=, group= () is the name of an ancient Levantine kingdom whose territory is today located in the modern state of Jordan. The land is mountainous and lies alongside much of the eastern shore of the Dead Sea. The existence of the Kingdom of Moab is attested to by numerous archaeological findings, most notably the Mesha Stele, which describes the Moabite victory over an unnamed son of King Omri of Israel, an episode also noted in 2 Kings . The Moabite capital was Dibon. According to the Hebrew Bible, Moab was often in conflict with its Israelite neighbours to the west. Etymology The etymology of the word Moab is uncertain. The earliest gloss is found in the Koine Greek Septuagint () which explains the name, in obvious allusion to the account of Moab's parentage, as แผฮบ ฯฮฟแฟฆ ฯฮฑฯฯฯฯ ฮผฮฟฯ ("from my ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
