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A Name That Tells a Story
Commentators unanimously explain that the name 'Moab' directly points to the son's incestuous origin. The name is generally understood to mean 'from a father.' By choosing this name, Lot's daughter was not hiding her sin but openly memorializing its source, creating a permanent record of the event for all future generations.
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Albert Barnes
On Genesis 19:1–38
18th Century
Theologian
גשׁ־ < הלאה (gesh - hāl'âh), meaning “approach to a distant point,” or “stand back.”
סנורים (san'evērı̂ym
Charles Ellicott
On Genesis 19:37–38
19th Century
Bishop
Moab ... Ben-ammi. — Both these names suggest an incestuous origin, but the latter in a less repulsive way. “Son of my people” mea…
John Calvin
On Genesis 19:37
16th Century
Theologian
And the firstborn bore. This was a terrible blindness: the daughters of Lot, shaking off all feeling of shame, raised up a memorial of the…
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John Gill
On Genesis 19:37
17th Century
Pastor
And the firstborn bore a son, and called his name Moab
As if it was "Meab", from the father, as Aben Ezra, and so Jo…
Matthew Henry
On Genesis 19:30–38
17th Century
Minister
See the peril of security. Lot, who kept chaste in Sodom, and was a mourner for the wickedness of the place, and a witness against it, when in the …