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HebrewH4872Proper Noun (Masculine)

מֹשֶׁה

mo.sheh

659Occurrences
H4872Strong's #
Proper Noun (Masculine)Part of Speech

Definition

Quick Definition(Strong's Concordance)

Mosheh, the Israelite lawgiver

from H4871 (מָשָׁה); drawing out (of the water), i.e. rescued;

Full Lexicon Entry(Abbott-Smith)
A man of the tribe of Levi living at the time of Egypt and Wilderness, first mentioned at ; son of: Amram (H6019) and Jochebed (H3115); brother of: Aaron (H0175) and Miriam (H4813); married to Zipporah (H6855); father of: Gershom (H1647) and Eliezer (H0461H); also called Manasseh at (?) § Moses = "drawn" the prophet and lawgiver, leader of the exodus

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Grammar & Morphology

Part of Speech

Proper Noun (Masculine)

Morphology Code

N:N-M-P

Full Description

Proper Noun, Masculine

Occurrences

מֹשֶׁה appears 659 times in the Old Testament.

Distribution by Book

Exodus
248
Numbers
196
Leviticus
76
Joshua
51
Deuteronomy
33
2 Chronicles
12
1 Chronicles
7
2 Kings
6

Key Passages

1 Chronicles 15:15BSB

And the Levites carried the ark of God on their shoulders with the poles, as Moses had commanded in accordance with the word of the LORD.

Exodus 18:1BSB

Now Moses’ father-in-law Jethro, the priest of Midian, heard about all that God had done for Moses and His people Israel, and how the LORD had brought Israel out of Egypt.

Exodus 4:28BSB

And Moses told Aaron everything the LORD had sent him to say, and all the signs He had commanded him to perform.

Leviticus 16:34BSB

This is to be a permanent statute for you, to make atonement once a year for the Israelites because of all their sins.”And all this was done as the LORD had commanded Moses.

Numbers 2:1BSB

Then the LORD said to Moses and Aaron:

Lexicon data from STEPBible.org (Tyndale House, Cambridge) under CC BY 4.0 license.