Moses

¹

[ moh-ziz, -zis ]

noun

1. the Hebrew prophet who led the Israelites out of Egypt and delivered the Law during their years of wandering in the wilderness.
2. a male given name.

Moses

²

[ moh-ziz, -zis ]

noun

1. Anna Mary Robertson Grandma Moses, 1860–1961, U.S. painter.
2. Robert, 1888–1981, U.S. public official: New York City Commissioner of Parks 1934–60.

Moses

/ ˈməʊzɪz /

noun

1. Old Testament MosesMJewishRELIGION: prophet the Hebrew prophet who led the Israelites out of Egypt to the Promised Land and gave them divinely revealed laws
2. MosesEd1956MUSSPORT AND GAMES: hurdler Ed. born 1956, US hurdler; winner of the 400 m hurdles in the 1976 and 1984 Olympic Games
3. MosesGrandma18601961FUSARTS AND CRAFTS: painter Grandma, real name Anna Mary Robertson Moses. 1860–1961, US painter of primitives, who began to paint at the age of 75

Moses

1. The great leader, lawgiver, and prophet of the ancient Israelites ( Hebrews ). According to the Old Testament , Moses was born in Egypt (see also Egypt ), where the Hebrews were living as slaves. When Moses was an infant, the Egyptian ruler, or pharaoh , ordered all the male children of the Hebrews slain. Moses' mother placed him in a small boat made of bulrushes and hid him in a marsh, where he was found by the daughter of the pharaoh, who adopted him. When Moses was a grown man, he killed an Egyptian who was beating a Hebrew and had to flee Egypt to escape punishment. One day, while Moses was living in exile, God spoke to him from a burning bush , commanding him to return to Egypt and bring the Hebrews out of bondage. Moses went back to Egypt and told the pharaoh of God's command; when the pharaoh refused to release the Hebrews from slavery, God sent the plagues of Egypt to afflict the Egyptians. The pharaoh finally relented, and Moses led his people out of Egypt across the Red Sea , on the journey that became known as the Exodus . Shortly afterward, Moses received the Ten Commandments from God on Mount Sinai . Moses and his people wandered in the wilderness for forty years; then, just as they came within sight of the Promised Land , Moses died.

Example Sentences

“When he put me on the phone, I talked to her, and told her, ‘Moses was working on writing stuff,’” he recalled.

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And the next time his friend saw Moses, it was online; his bloody body was slapped on a stretcher.

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Moses felt like he was doing something finally; that this was going to be his thing and he wanted her to know it.

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The scriptural Moses is defined by his frailties, his inability to act.

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And, in a gratuitous show of homicidal prowess, Moses kills two assassins he meets while wandering in the desert of Sinai.

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We used to be taught in school that Moses was the meekest man the world has known: and we used to marvel.

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He was relieved to learn that his grandson Moses Mole was not wandering about the garden, after all.

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In a thousand trials the cruel witness of Moses has sent innocent women to a painful death.

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The passage, however, shows that the ugab was known in the time of Moses, who was "learned in all the learning of the Egyptians."

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And Moses took half of the blood, and put it in basons; and half of the blood he sprinkled on the altar.

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