Moses Definition

mōzĭz, -zĭs
noun
A masculine name: dim. Mo, Mose.
Webster's New World

A large flatboat used in the West Indies for taking freight from shore to ship.

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The leader who brought the Israelites out of slavery in Egypt and led them to the Promised Land, received the Ten Commandments from God, and gave laws to the people.
Webster's New World
Synonyms:
  • grandma moses
  • Anna Mary Robertson Moses
pronoun
A male given name.
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The pharaonic patriarch who led the slaved Jews out of Egypt, the brother of Aaron and Miriam described in the Book of Exodus and the Quran.

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A surname.

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A dialect of the Columbia-Wenatchi language.

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Origin of Moses

  • Late Latin Mōses from Greek from Hebrew mōše from Egyptian ms child

    From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition

  • From the Ancient Greek Μωϋσῆς (Mōüsēs) from the Classical Hebrew משה

    From Wiktionary

Moses Sentence Examples

  • No deductions as to their chronology can be based on the silence regarding them in Moses' song, Exodus xv.

  • In the same year in which this work appeared, he and his wife Dorothea (1763-1839), a daughter of Moses Mendelssohn, joined the Roman Catholic Church, and from this time he became more and more opposed to the principles of political and religious freedom.

  • His son Moses, who died about the end of the 13th century, translated the rest of Maimonides, much of Averroes, the lesser Canon of Avicenna, Euclid's Elements (from the Arabic version), Ibn al-Jazzar's Viaticum, medical works of IIunain ben Isaac (Johannitius) and Razi (Rhazes), besides works of less-known Arabic authors.

  • He wrote numerous translations, of Galen, Aristotle, Ilariri, IIunain ben Isaac and Maimonides, as well as several original works, a Sepher Anaq in imitation of Moses ben Ezra, and treatises on grammar and medicine (Rephuath geviyyah), but he is best known for his Talzkemoni, a diwan in the style of Ilariri's Magimat.

  • Lastly, the rite of circumcision, which the Hebrews practised in common with their Semitic neighbours as well as the Egyptians, belonged to ages long anterior to the time of Moses.

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