mo.a.vi identifies people, women, or groups by their affiliation with Moab.

The term functions as a gentilicial identifier for an individual, women, or a people associated with Moab. It marks Ruth repeatedly in the Ruth narrative, identifies women in marriage and family settings, and names Moab-associated groups in legal, geographic, and population statements.

1. Gentilic identification by Moab affiliation · dominant

   The masculine and feminine singular forms identify particular people: in Ruth 1:22 the APB renders Ruth as returning with Naomi from the territory of Moab, while in 2 Chronicles 24:26 it identifies the mother of Jehozabad. Plural forms identify women or a people-group: in Ruth 1:4 the APB renders men marrying women so identified, and in Deuteronomy 2:11 it distinguishes the name used by the Moabites for the Emim. In Nehemiah 13:1, the masculine singular occurs in the stated restriction concerning an Ammonite or a person so identified entering the assembly.

   Ruth 1:22Ruth 1:4Ruth 2:6Ruth 4:10Deuteronomy 2:11Nehemiah 13:1

In the Anselm Project Bible: Across the supplied verses, the APB commonly presents the term with forms such as "Ruth the Moabite," "Moabite women," and "the Moabites." These renderings confirm the verse-level identification but do not establish finer distinctions in the term itself.