MOAB, in Ancient Geography, a country of Arabia
Petraea; so called from Moab the son of Lot, to whose
posterity this country was allotted by divine appoint-
ment, Deut. xi. 9. It was originally occupied by the
Emim, a race of giants extirpated by the Moabites, ibid.
Moab anciently lay to the south of Ammon, before
Sihon the Amorite stripped both nations of a part of
their territory, afterwards occupied by the Israelites,
Numb. xxi.; and then Moab was bounded by the river
Arnon to the north, the Lacus Asphaltites to the west,
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Mocha. the brook Zared to the south, and the mountains Abarim to the east.