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Ancient Greek
Etymology
From Biblical Hebrew מֹשֶׁה (mōše).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /mo.yˈsis/ → /mo.iˈsis/
Proper noun
Μωϋσῆς • (Mōüsês) m (genitive Μωϋσέως); third declension
- a male given name from Hebrew, equivalent to English Moses
Inflection
Descendants
- Μωυσής (Mōusḗs) is the ancestor of most forms of the name Moses used in Christendom. Most Islamic world forms derive from Arabic مُوسَى (mūsā). Most Jewish community forms derive directly from the Hebrew or other Jewish languages.
References
- Nestle, Eberhard, Aland, Kurt with et al. (2012) Novum Testamentum Graece, 28th revised edition, 4th corrected printing edition, Stuttgart: Stuttgart Deutsche Bibelgesellschaft, →ISBN
- Bauer, Walter et al. (2001) A Greek–English Lexicon of the New Testament and Other Early Christian Literature, Third edition, Chicago: University of Chicago Press
- G3475 in Strong, James (1979) Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance to the Bible