Moses

Meanings

Proper Noun

• The pharaonic patriarch who led the slaved Hebrews out of Egypt, the brother of Aaron and Miriam described in the Book of Exodus and the Quran.
• A male given name from Hebrew.
• A dialect of the Columbia-Wenatchi language

Noun

• A large flatboat used in the West Indies for taking freight from shore to ship.

Related

Similar words

• Moishe
• Moshe

Origin

• From Latin Mōsēs, Mōȳsēs, from Ancient Greek Μωυσῆς, from Ancient Hebrew מֹשֶׁה. Further etymology is unclear, but it is sometimes conjectured to derive from Egyptian msj ("to give birth to"), a common element in Egyptian names of the form ‘[name of deity] is the one who bore him’.