Moab

SPECIAL TOPIC: MOAB

The etymology of the name is uncertain. Genesis 19:37 seems to connect it to Lot’s daughter, linking the
child to her father, “from my father” or “water of my father,” but this is the type of popular etymology so common in the OT.
Lot’s incestuous child becomes the designation of a nation (as does the other daughter’s son, Ammon (cf. Gen. 19:38).
Their territory was between the Zered and Arnon Rivers on the eastern side of the Dead Sea.