Pahath-Moab

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pā´hath-mō´ab (פּחת־מואב, paḥath mō'ābh, "governor of Moab," or “sheik of Moab”; in 1 Esdras 5:11; 8:31, “Phaath Moab”):

A person whose descendants returned from the Captivity and assisted in rebuilding Jerusalem (Ezra 2:6; Ezra 8:4; Ezra 10:30). The Jewish clan probably named after an ancestor of the above title. Part of the clan returned with Zerubbabel (Ezra 2:6; compare Nehemiah 7:11) under two family names, Jeshua and Joab; and a part came back with Ezra (Ezra 8:4). Hashub, a “son of Pahath-moab,” is named among the repairers of both the wall and the “tower of the furnaces” at Jerusalem (Nehemiah 3:11). It is the name of one of the signatories “sealing” the “sure covenant” of Nehemiah 9:38 (Nehemiah 10:14). Some of the sons of this name had taken “strange wives” (Ezra 10:30)