Strong H4183מוֹרַשְׁתִּי
Moreshethite
- Transliteration
- môrashtîy
- Pronunciation
- mo-rash-tee'
- Morphology
- Proper Name of a Location in Gentilic sense
Definition
Patrial from H4182; a Morashtite or inhabitant of Moresheth Gath: - Morashthite.
Meaning of the name
Morasthite see Moreshethgath = "possession of Gath"
Detailed definition
Moresheth was the hometown of the prophet Micah, located in Judah.
In the Bible
Strong H4183 appears in 2 verses of the KJV.
Translated in the KJV by
- morasthite2
First verses
- Jeremiah 26:18Micah the Morasthite prophesied in the days of Hezekiah king of Judah, and spake to all the people of Judah, saying, Thus saith the Lord of hosts; Zion shall be plowed like a field, and Jerusalem shall become heaps, and the mountain of the house as the high places of a forest.
- Micah 1:1The word of the Lord that came to Micah the Morasthite in the days of Jotham, Ahaz, and Hezekiah, kings of Judah, which he saw concerning Samaria and Jerusalem.