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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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

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

 931-909 BCE) Tirzah (c. 909–880 BCE) Samaria (c. 880–720 BCE) Common languages Biblical Hebrew, Israelian Hebrew Religion Monolatristic or henotheistic...

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...

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...

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

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

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...

group of the Semitic language family, which also includes the mutually intelligible Canaanite languages such as Hebrew, Edomite, Moabite, Ekronite, Sutean...

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

(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...

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...

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...

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...

Moabite Notebook (Russian: Моабитская тетрадь) is a 1968 Soviet biographical war film directed by Leonid Kvinikhidze. The film tells about the famous...

and by the Iron Age by Sutean and the Canaanite languages (Hebrew, Phoenician/Punic, Edomite and Moabite). The term was coined by Carl Brockelmann in 1908...

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

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

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

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

under Pagan and Fulk, King of Jerusalem. The Crusaders called it Crac des Moabites or "Karak in Moab", as it is referred to in history books. It was also...

comprising 8 complete words and fragments of 5 more, all written in the "Moabite language" known from only one other artifact - the Mesha Stele. The text of...