משה

Hebrew

הר נבו שבו משה מת ולפי מסורות שונות גם נקבר

Etymology

Root
מ־שׁ־ה (m-sh-h)
2 terms

According to the etymology found in Exodus 2:10, semantically equivalent to Hebrew מָשׁוּי (mashúy, “drawn out [of water]”), since Moses was found in a floating basket on the Nile by Pharaoh's daughter.

Other hypotheses suggests origin from Egyptian mw (“water”), with the same idea behind the origin of the name, or Egyptian msj (“birthe”). These are considered tenuous, but historically plausible, since it is more likely that Pharaoh's daughter, an Egyptian, spoke Ancient Egyptian.

Pronunciation

• (Tiberian) IPA^(key): /moˈʃɛ/
• (Ashkenazi) IPA^(key): /mɔjˈʃɛ/, [ˈmɔj.ʃɛ]
• (Modern Israeli) IPA^(key): /moˈʃe/

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Proper noun

מֹשֶׁה • (moshé) m

1. a male given name, Moshe and Moishe, equivalent to English Moses
2. (biblical) Moses (the pharaonic patriarch who led the enslaved Hebrews out of Egypt, the brother of Aaron and Miriam described in the Book of Exodus and the Quran)

Usage notes

• The prophet Moses is frequently referred to as מֹשֶׁה רַבֵּינוּ (moshé rabénu, literally “Moses our teacher”).

Derived terms

• מושית f (moshít, “ladybug”)

Descendants

• Ancient Greek: Μωυσής (Mōusḗs)
• Burmese: မောရှေ (​mau:hre)

References

• H4872 in Strong, James (1979), Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance to the Bible
• Klein, Ernest (1987), “מֹשֶׁה”, in A Comprehensive Etymological Dictionary of the Hebrew Language for Readers of English‎^[1], Jerusalem: Carta, →ISBN, page 389a
• Jastrow, Marcus (1903), A Dictionary of the Targumim, the Talmud Babli and Yerushalmi, and the Midrashic Literature‎^[2], London, New York: Luzac & Co., G.P. Putnam's Sons, page 849a
• “משה” in the Hebrew Terms Database of the Academy of Hebrew Language

Anagrams

• השם
• שהם

Yiddish

Etymology

From Hebrew משה (moshé, “Moses”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈmɔɪ̯ʃə/

Proper noun

משה • (moyshe) m

1. (biblical) Moses
2. a male given name, Moshe and Moishe, equivalent to English Moses

Derived terms

• משה גרויסע (moyshe groyse, “a stuffed shirt; person who is full of himself”)
• משהלע (Moyshele, “"diminutive of Moyshe"”)