Bible Person
Male · 4 cross references
Pahath-moab is the ancestral or house-name behind a returnee family that comes back from exile and participates in restoration. The name likely reflects an older family designation rather than a simple individual profile. First appears in Ezra 2:6.1
AI summary: Pahath-moab matters because the cross references present the name within the large-scale return and reform of the post-exilic community. It appears in the return lists, in Ezra's later company, and in the difficult reckoning over covenant fidelity. That breadth gives the house a real place in restoration history. Taken together, the material presents Pahath-moab as a significant returnee house involved in rebuilding the community after exile.1
Central Figure
Pahath-moab
Governor of Moab, a person whose descendants returned from the Captivity and assisted in rebuilding Jerusalem (Ezra 2:6; 8:4; 10:30).
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Alistair de Blacquiere-Clarkson, “ai-BIBLE Bible Names JSON Factsheet Aggregating Material from Smith’s Bible Dictionary & Hitcocks’s New and Complete Analysis of the Bible.” ai-BIBLE electronic edition, version 1.0.
M.G.Easton, Illustrated Bible Dictionary, ai-BIBLE electronic edition, version 1.0.
Robert Rouse, “Theographic Bible Information,” Theographic-Bible-Metadata, 2020, https://github.com/robertrouse/theographic-bible-metadata.