{"id":43589,"count":1,"description":"Moab (Hebrew: \u05de\u05d5\u05b9\u05d0\u05b8\u05d1, Modern\u00a0Mo'av Tiberian\u00a0M\u00f4\u02bc\u0101\u1e07\u00a0; \"seed of father\"; Greek \u039c\u03c9\u03ac\u03b2 M\u014dav; Arabic \u0645\u0624\u0627\u0628, Assyrian Mu'aba, Ma'ba, Ma'ab\u00a0; Egyptian Mu'ab) is the historical name for a mountainous strip of land in Jordan. The land lies alongside much of the eastern shore of the Dead Sea. The existence of the Kingdom of Moab is attested to by numerous archeological findings, most notably the Mesha Stele, which describes the Moabite victory over an unnamed son of King Omri of Israel. The Moabite capital was Dibon. In Biblical times, the nation was often in conflict with its Israelite neighbours to the west.\nThe etymology of the word is uncertain. The earliest gloss is found in the Septuagint which explains the name, in obvious allusion to the account of Moab's parentage, as \u1f10\u03ba \u03c4\u03bf\u1fe6 \u03c0\u03b1\u03c4\u03c1\u03cc\u03c2 \u03bc\u03bf\u03c5. Other etymologies which have been proposed regard it as a corruption of \"seed of a father,\" or as a participial form from \"to desire,\" thus connoting \"the desirable (land).\" Rashi explains the word Mo'ab...","link":"https:\/\/www.skateboarding-lessons.com\/go\/tag\/moab\/","name":"Moab","slug":"moab","taxonomy":"post_tag","meta":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.skateboarding-lessons.com\/go\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags\/43589","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.skateboarding-lessons.com\/go\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.skateboarding-lessons.com\/go\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/taxonomies\/post_tag"}],"wp:post_type":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.skateboarding-lessons.com\/go\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts?tags=43589"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}