משה

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

• (Modern Israeli Hebrew) IPA^(key): /moˈʃe/

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מֹשֶׁה • (moshé) m

1. a male given name, Moshe or 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)

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

• מושית f (moshít, “ladybug”)

• 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

• השם
• שהם

From Hebrew משה (moshé, “Moses”).

• IPA^(key): /ˈmɔɪ̯ʃə/

משה • (moyshe) m

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

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