Genesis 19:37
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And the elder bore a son, and she called his name Moab: he is the father of the Moabites unto this day.

A.

2108. B.C.

1896. Moab. This name is generally interpreted of the father; from mo, of, and av, a father.

Moabites.

Numbers 21:29 Woe to thee Moab: thou art undone, O people of Chamos. He hath given his sons to flight, and his daughters into captivity to Sehon the king of the Amorrhites.

Numbers 22:1-41 And they went forward and encamped in the plains of Moab, over against where Jericho is situate beyond the Jordan. . . .

Numbers 24:1-25 And when Balaam saw that it pleased the Lord that he should bless Israel, he went not as he had gone before, to seek divination: but setting his face towards the desert, . . .

Deuteronomy 2:9,19 And the Lord said to me: Fight not against the Moabites, neither go to battle against them: for I will not give thee any of their land, because I have given Ar to the children of Lot in possession. . . .

Deuteronomy 23:3 The Ammonite and the Moabite, even after the tenth generation shall not enter into the church of the Lord for ever:

Judges 3:1-31 These are the nations which the Lord left, that by them he might instruct Israel, and all that had not known the wars of the Chanaanites: . . .

Ruth 4:10 And have taken to wife Ruth, the Moabitess, the wife of Mahalon, to raise up the name of the deceased in his inheritance lest his name be cut off, from among his family and his brethren and his people. You, I say, are witnesses of this thing.

2 Samuel 8:1-18 And it came to pass after this that David defeated the Philistines, and brought them down, and David took the bridle of tribute out of the hand of the Philistines, . . .

2 Kings 3:1-27 And Joram the son of Achab, reigned over Israel, in Samaria, in the eighteenth year of Josaphat, king of Juda. And he reigned twelve years. . . .

Context
Lot and His Daughters
36So the two daughters of Lot were with child by their father. 37And the elder bore a son, and she called his name Moab: he is the father of the Moabites unto this day.38The younger also bore a son, and she called his name Ammon; that is, the son of my people: he is the father of the Ammonites unto this day.…
Cross References
Genesis 19:36
So the two daughters of Lot were with child by their father.

Deuteronomy 2:9
And the Lord said to me: Fight not against the Moabites, neither go to battle against them: for I will not give thee any of their land, because I have given Ar to the children of Lot in possession.

Lexicon
The older [daughter]
הַבְּכִירָה֙ (hab·bə·ḵî·rāh)
Article | Adjective - feminine singular
Strong's Hebrew 1067: First-born (always of women)

gave birth to
וַתֵּ֤לֶד (wat·tê·leḏ)
Conjunctive waw | Verb - Qal - Consecutive imperfect - third person feminine singular
Strong's Hebrew 3205: To bear young, to beget, medically, to act as midwife, to show lineage

a son
בֵּ֔ן (bên)
Noun - masculine singular
Strong's Hebrew 1121: A son

and named
וַתִּקְרָ֥א (wat·tiq·rā)
Conjunctive waw | Verb - Qal - Consecutive imperfect - third person feminine singular
Strong's Hebrew 7121: To call, proclaim, read

him Moab.
מוֹאָ֑ב (mō·w·’āḇ)
Noun - proper - feminine singular
Strong's Hebrew 4124: Moab -- a son of Lot,also his descendants and the territory where they settled

He
ה֥וּא (hū)
Pronoun - third person masculine singular
Strong's Hebrew 1931: He, self, the same, this, that, as, are

is the father
אֲבִֽי־ (’ă·ḇî-)
Noun - masculine singular construct
Strong's Hebrew 1: Father

of the Moabites
מוֹאָ֖ב (mō·w·’āḇ)
Noun - proper - feminine singular
Strong's Hebrew 4124: Moab -- a son of Lot,also his descendants and the territory where they settled

of
עַד־ (‘aḏ-)
Preposition
Strong's Hebrew 5704: As far as, even to, up to, until, while

today.
הַיּֽוֹם׃ (hay·yō·wm)
Article | Noun - masculine singular
Strong's Hebrew 3117: A day


Additional Translations
The older daughter gave birth to a son and named him Moab. He is the father of the Moabites of today.And the first born bore a son, and called his name Moab: the same is the father of the Moabites to this day.

And the first-born bare a son, and called his name Moab: the same is the father of the Moabites unto this day.

And the elder bore a son and called his name Moab, saying, He is of my father. This is the father of the Moabites to this present day.

And the first-born bore a son, and called his name Moab: the same is the father of the Moabites to this day.

And the firstborn bare a son, and called his name Moab: the same is the father of the Moabites unto this day.

And the first-born bore a son, and called his name Moab: the same is the father of the Moabites to this day.

The firstborn bore a son, and named him Moab. He is the father of the Moabites to this day.

and the first-born beareth a son, and calleth his name Moab; he is father of Moab unto this day;
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