The Moabite language, also known as the Moabite dialect, is an extinct sub-language or dialect of the Canaanite languages, themselves a branch of Northwest...

The Mesha Stele, also known as the Moabite Stone, is a stele dated around 840 BCE containing a significant Canaanite inscription in the name of King Mesha...

Jordan Moabite language, an extinct Canaanite dialect once spoken in Moab Ithmah the Moabite, one of King David's Mighty Warriors Ruth the Moabite, the...

which describes the Moabite victory over an unnamed son of King Omri of Israel, an episode also noted in 2 Kings 3. The Moabite capital was Dibon. According...

mentioned in the Hebrew Bible. The name of Chemosh is attested in the Moabite language as 𐤊𐤌𐤔‎ (KMŠ), which was pronounced as Kamōš (/kaˈmoːʃ/). The name...

from that of Egyptian. One ancient document is the famous Moabite Stone, written in the Moabite dialect; the Siloam inscription, found near Jerusalem, is...

the 9th century BCE, the most famous being the Mesha Stele in the Moabite language (which might be considered a dialect of Hebrew). The ancient Hebrew...

which also includes the mutually intelligible Canaanite languages such as Hebrew, Edomite, Moabite, Ekronite, Sutean, and Phoenician, as well as Amorite...

Numbers 32, and 2nd Books of Kings 3:4–27. The oldest inscription in the Moabite language script, dated to the late 9th or early 8th century BC, was found at...

 931–909 BCE) Tirzah (c. 909–880 BCE) Samaria (c. 880–720 BCE) Common languages Hebrew (Biblical, Israelian) Religion Yahwism, other Semitic religions...

BC, followed by the mutually intelligible Canaanite languages (including Hebrew, Phoenician, Moabite, Edomite, and Ammonite, and perhaps Ekronite, Amalekite...

Punics/Carthaginians), Moabites, Suteans and sometimes the Ugarites and Amorites. The Canaanite languages continued to be spoken languages until at least the...

Ashtoreth the abomination of the Sidonians, for Chemosh the abomination of the Moabites, and for Molech the abomination of the Ammonites". biblehub.com. "Jeremiah...

(Israel and Judah), Moabite (Moab and Ammon), Edomite, Phoenician and Old Aramaic scripts. Linguistic features of the Moabite language (rather than generic...

of 𐤏𐤔𐤕𐤓𐤊𐤌𐤔‎ (ʿAštar-Kamōš). According to the inscription of the Moabite king Mōšaʿ on the victory stele commemorating his triumph in a war against...

Tiberian: Rūṯ) is the person after whom the Book of Ruth is named. She was a Moabite woman who married an Israelite, Mahlon. After the death of all the male...

of Israel in a war against the Moabites, who were under tribute to Israel. This war was successful, and the Moabites were subdued. However, on seeing...

marks, boxes, or other symbols instead of cuneiform script. Kamas-halta (Moabite: 𐤊𐤌𐤔𐤏𐤔𐤄, romanized: Kamōš-ʿaśa; Neo-Assyrian Akkadian: 𒅗𒈠𒊍𒄬𒋫𒀀...

late 7th or early 6th century BCE letter, discovered in Horvat Uza. Like Moabite, but unlike Hebrew, it retained the feminine ending -t in the singular...

King Mesha (Moabite: 𐤌𐤔𐤏, vocalized as: Mōšáʿ; Hebrew: מֵישַׁע Mēšaʿ‍) was a king of Moab in the 9th century BC, known most famously for having the...

other symbols instead of cuneiform script. Kammusu-nadbi or Chemosh-nadab (Moabite: 𐤊𐤌𐤔𐤍𐤃𐤁, romanized: Kamōš-nadab or Kamōš-nadbī; Neo-Assyrian Akkadian:...

Moabites revolted against his authority (2 Kings 3:5–7). This event is recorded on the Mesha stele, an extensive inscription written in the Moabite language...

Dhiban (Arabic: ذيبان Ḏiʾbān), known to the Moabites as Dibon (Moabite: 𐤃𐤉𐤁𐤍 *Daybōn; Hebrew: דִּיבוֹן Dīḇōn), is a Jordanian town located in Madaba...

term. Khirbet Qeiyafa ostracon – 10th century BC inscription – both the language it is written in and the translation are disputed. Was discovered in excavations...

This is a list of languages arranged by age of the oldest existing text recording a complete sentence in the language. It does not include undeciphered...

extinct language may be narrowly defined as a language with no native speakers and no descendant languages. Under this definition, a language becomes...

appear that the Philistine language is simply part of the local Canaanite dialect continuum which includes Hebrew, Edomite, Moabite, and Phoenician. For instance...

Semitic languages and Arabic. Speakers of Northwest Semitic were the Canaanites (including the Phoenicians, Punics, Amorites, Edomites, Moabites and the...

from the Bible. The Ammonites' language is believed to be in the Canaanite family, closely related to Hebrew and Moabite. Ammonite may have incorporated...

chapter 3 as a judge who was sent by God to deliver the Israelites from Moabite domination. He is described as being left-handed and a member of the Tribe...