• 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...
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    Moab (redirect from Moabites)
    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...
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  • 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...
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    Mesha Stele (redirect from Moabite Stone)
    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...
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    Chemosh (category Articles containing Moabite-language text)
    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...
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    Kingdom of Judah (category Articles containing Moabite-language text)
    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...
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    Kingdom of Israel (united monarchy) (category Articles containing Moabite-language text)
    Ashtoreth the abomination of the Sidonians, for Chemosh the abomination of the Moabites, and for Molech the abomination of the Ammonites". biblehub.com. "Jeremiah...
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  • 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...
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    Kingdom of Israel (Samaria) (category Articles containing Moabite-language text)
     931-909 BCE) Tirzah (c. 909–880 BCE) Samaria (c. 880–720 BCE) Common languages Biblical Hebrew, Israelian Hebrew Religion Monolatristic or henotheistic...
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  • the Carthaginians), Moabites, Suteans and sometimes the Ugarites. The Canaanite languages continued to be everyday spoken languages until at least the...
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    Mesha (category Articles containing Moabite-language text)
    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...
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    Madaba (category Articles containing Arabic-language text)
    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...
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    Dhiban, Jordan (category Articles containing Moabite-language text)
    Dhiban, (Arabic: ذيبان Ḏiʾbān) known to the Moabites as Dibon (Moabite: 𐤃𐤉𐤁𐤍 *Ḏaybōn; Hebrew: דִּיבוֹן Dīḇōn), is a Jordanian town located in Madaba...
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    from that of Egyptian. One ancient document is the famous Moabite Stone, written in the Moabite dialect; the Siloam inscription, found near Jerusalem, is...
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    Ahaziah of Israel (category Articles containing Hebrew-language text)
    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...
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    BC, followed by the mutually intelligible Canaanite languages (including Hebrew, Phoenician, Moabite, Edomite, and Ammonite, and perhaps Ekronite, Amalekite...
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  • Aramaic (redirect from Aramaic language)
    group of the Semitic language family, which also includes the mutually intelligible Canaanite languages such as Hebrew, Edomite, Moabite, Ekronite, Sutean...
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    ʿAṯtar (category Articles containing Moabite-language text)
    of 𐤏𐤔𐤕𐤓𐤊𐤌𐤔‎ (ʿAštar-Kamōš). According to the inscription of the Moabite king Mōšaʿ on the victory stele commemorating his triumph in a war against...
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  • Paleo-Hebrew alphabet (category Articles containing Jewish Babylonian Aramaic (ca. 200-1200 CE)-language text)
    (Israel and Judah), Moabite (Moab and Ammon), Edomite, Phoenician and Old Aramaic scripts. Linguistic features of the Moabite language (rather than generic...
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    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...
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    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...
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  • 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...
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  • 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...
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  • Moabite Notebook (Russian: Моабитская тетрадь) is a 1968 Soviet biographical war film directed by Leonid Kvinikhidze. The film tells about the famous...
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  • term. Khirbet Qeiyafa ostracon – 10th century BC inscription – both the language it is written in and the translation are disputed. Was discovered in excavations...
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  • Kammusu-nadbi (category Articles containing Moabite-language text)
    marks, boxes, or other symbols instead of cuneiform script. Chemosh-nadab (Moabite: 𐤊𐤌𐤔𐤍𐤃𐤁, romanized: Kamōš-nadab or Kamōš-nadbī; Neo-Assyrian Akkadian:...
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    Kerak Inscription (category Moabite inscriptions)
    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...
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  • extinct language may be narrowly defined as a language with no native speakers and no descendant languages. Under this definition, a language becomes...
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    Ammon (category Articles containing Hebrew-language text)
    from the Bible. The Ammonites' language is believed to be in the Canaanite family, closely related to Hebrew and Moabite. Ammonite may have incorporated...
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  • Kamōš-ʿaśa (category Articles containing Moabite-language text)
    marks, boxes, or other symbols instead of cuneiform script. Kamōš-ʿaśa (Moabite: 𐤊𐤌𐤔𐤏𐤔𐤄, romanized: Kamōš-ʿaśa; Neo-Assyrian Akkadian: 𒅗𒈠𒊍𒄬𒋫𒀀...
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