And the firstborn bare a son, and called his name
Moab
As if it was "Meab", from the father, as Aben Ezra, and so
Josephus, that is, which she had by her father; and she was so
far from being ashamed that it might be known in time to come,
she gave him this name. Hillerus F23 makes it to be a compound of
(ba) and (abwm) , and to signify "going into",
or "lying with a father", which still more notoriously points to
her own action. Drusius has another derivation of the word, at
least proposes it, and renders it "aqua patris"; "mo" in the
Egyptian language signifying "water", which is sometimes used for
seed, see ( Isaiah 48:1 ) :
the same [is] the father of the Moabites unto this
day;
a people that lived on the borders of the land of Canaan, often
troublesome to the Israelites, and frequently spoken of in the
Old Testament.