Crossword-Solution: MOABITE
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| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Moabite | n. | One of the posterity of Moab, the son of Lot. (Gen. xix. 37.) Also used adjectively. |
We have 8 clues for the answer “MOABITE”
| Clue | Answers |
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| Ancient dweller east of the Dead Sea. | 1 answer |
| Descendant of Lot | 1 answer |
| Jordanian's ancestor | 1 answer |
| Judean's neighbor. | 1 answer |
| One from the land of Ruth. | 1 answer |
| Ruth's lineage. | 1 answer |
| Jordanian | 4 answers |
| ANCIENT SEMITE | 12 answers |
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Hint 1 meaning
One who, or that which, eats.
Hint 2 anagram
ARTEE
Hint 3 another clue
greedy person
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Sentences with MOABITE (5)
For this I rede of his sotie: Sche of Sidoyne so him ladde, That he knelende his armes spradde 4500 To Astrathen with gret humblesse, Which of hire lond was the goddesse: And sche that was a Moabite So ferforth made him to delite Thurgh lust, which al his wit devoureth, That he Chamos hire god honoureth.
For this act God blessed her, and all nations in all ages have honored her.” “Ruth! Ruth! Ruth! What has Ruth to do with the question? Presumptuous one! Ruth was a heathen woman--a Moabite--a race ten times accursed.” “Pardon, father.
The villain of fiction dearly loves a parish register: he cuts out pages, inserts others, intercalates remarks in a different coloured ink, and generally manipulates the register as a Greek manages his hand at _écarté_, or as a Hebrew dealer in Moabite bric-à-brac treats a synagogue roll.
Day, author of ‘The Prehistoric Use of Iron and Steel.’ But the Brazilians, from lack of energy, have dropped the subject, and the Phoenician inscriptions of Brazil are less successful, after all, than the Moabite stone, about which one begins to entertain disagreeable doubts.
There is a far closer analogy between the Palestinian group of languages--Phoenician, Hebrew, Moabite, and the Assyro-Babylonian, than between either of these and the Aramaic.
Quotes with MOABITE (1)
Elohim was, in logical terminology, the genus of which ghosts, Chemosh, Dagon, Baal, and Jahveh were species. The Israelite believed Jahveh to be immeasurably superior to all other kinds of Elohim. The inscription on the Moabite stone shows that King Mesa held Chemosh to be, as unquestionably, the superior of Jahveh.
Where this answer appears
Appears in: Boston Globe, NYT.
Used 6 times in crossword archives (1943–1999).