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Bible | Moabite Stone a basalt stone, bearing an inscription by King Mesha, which was discovered at Dibon by Klein, a German missionary at Jerusalem, in 1868. It was 3 1/2 feet high and 2 in breadth and in thickness, rounded at the top. It consisted of thirty-four lines, written in Hebrew-Phoenician characters. It was set up by Mesha as a record and memorial of his victories. It records (1) Mesha's wars with Omri, (2) his public buildings, and (3) his wars against Horonaim. This inscription in a remarkable degree supplements and corroborates the history of King Mesha recorded in 2 Kings 3:4-27. With the exception of a very few variations, the Moabite language in which the inscription is written is identical with the Hebrew. The form of the letters here used supplies very important and interesting information regarding the history of the formation of the alphabet, as well as, incidentally, regarding the arts of civilized life of those times in the land of Moab. This ancient monument, recording the heroic struggles of King Mesha with Omri and Ahab, was erected about B.C. 900. Here "we have the identical slab on which the workmen of the old world carved the history of their own times, and from which the eye of their contemporaries read thousands of years ago the record of events of which they themselves had been the witnesses." It is the oldest inscription written in alphabetic characters, and hence is, apart from its value in the domain of Hebrew antiquities, of great linguistic importance. Source: Easton's 1897 Bible Dictionary. |
Literature | Moabite Stone (The). Presented to the British Museum by the museum of the Louvre. It was discovered by the Rev. F. Klein at Dibhan in August, 1868, and is 3 feet 10 inches high, 2 feet broad, and 14 1/2 inches thick. The Arabs resented its removal, and splintered it into fragments, but it has been restored. The inscription, consisting of forty-four lines, gives an account of the war of Mesha, King of Moab, against Omri, Ahab, and other kings of Israel. Mesha sacrificed his eldest son on the city wall in view of the invading Israelites. He set up this stone at Kermost B.C. 900. Source: Brewer's Dictionary. |
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moabite stone | 6 |
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Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-b-e-e-i-m-n-o-o-s-t-t" | |
-2 letters: maisonette, tenotomies. | |
-3 letters: abetments, estaminet, obstinate, stoneboat, tombstone, tomentose. | |
-4 letters: abetment, ambients, amniotes, amotions, anisette, basement, beamiest, betaines, betonies, boatsmen, bonitoes, boomiest, botanies, botanise, botanist, ebonites, emotions, eobionts, estimate, etamines, matinees, meatiest, misatone, miseaten, monetise, mooniest, niobates, noisette, obeisant, ostinato, ottomans, semitone, teatimes, teosinte, tetanies, tetanise, tomatoes. | |
-5 letters: ambient, ambones, amniote, amosite, amotion, anomies. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)4D 4F 41 42 49 54 45 53 54 4F 4E 45 |
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01001101 01001111 01000001 01000010 01001001 01010100 01000101 00100000 01010011 01010100 01001111 01001110 01000101 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)M O A B I T E   S T O N E |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)004D 004F 0041 0042 0049 0054 0045 0053 0054 004F 004E 0045 |
Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)4749353643543925354494839 |
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