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 appointment, 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. xxii.; and then Moab was bounded by the river Arnon to the north, the Lacus Asphaltites to the west,