moses

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Definition of moses in English Turkish dictionary

musa peygamber

{i} Musa

Musa ilahi emirleri taşıyan dağdan indi. - Moses came down from the mountain bearing divine commandments.

Musa, İsraillileri Mısır'dan çıkardı. - Moses led the Israelites out of Egypt.

(isim) Musa

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Definition of moses in English English dictionary

A male given name

The patriarch who led the slaved Jews out of Egypt, brother of Aaron and Miriam in the Book of Exodus

given name, male

{i} Hebrew Prophet who lead the Israelites out of Egypt into the Wilderness on their way to the promised Land, author of the first five books of the Bible; male first name; family name; Anna Mary Robertson "Grandma" Moses (1860-1961), United States artist

American painter noted for her primitive and colorful paintings of rural scenes. American public official who planned many important public works and buildings in New York City, including Lincoln Center and the United Nations complex. a leader of the Jewish people in ancient times. According to the story in the Bible, he brought the Israelites out of Egypt. They were able to escape from the Egyptians when God made the waters of the Red Sea move so that they could walk across. Moses received the Ten Commandments (=God's laws) from God on Mount Sinai. flourished 14th-13th century BC Prophet of Judaism. According to the Book of Exodus, he was born in Egypt to Hebrew parents, who set him afloat on the Nile in a reed basket to save him from an edict calling for the death of all newborn Hebrew males. Found by the pharaoh's daughter, he was reared in the Egyptian court. After killing a brutal Egyptian taskmaster, he fled to Midian, where Yahweh (God) revealed himself in a burning bush and called Moses to deliver the Israelites from Egypt. With the help of his brother Aaron, Moses pleaded with the pharaoh for the Israelites' release. The pharaoh let them go after Yahweh had visited a series of plagues on Egypt, but then sent his army after them. Yahweh parted the waters of the Red Sea to allow the Israelites to pass, then drowned the pursuing Egyptians. Yahweh made a covenant with the Israelites at Mount Sinai and delivered the Ten Commandments to Moses, who continued to lead his people through 40 years of wandering in the wilderness until they reached the edge of Canaan. He died before he could enter the Promised Land. Authorship of the first five books of the Bible (see Torah) is traditionally ascribed to him. Abba Mari ben Moses ben Joseph Kunstler William Moses Maimonides Moses Moses ben Maimon Mendelssohn Moses Moses ben Menachem Moses de León Moses ben Shem Tov Moses Edwin Moses Grandma Moses Robert Phoebe Anne Moses

The great lawgiver of the Torah and thus a figure of central importance for groups concerned to remain faithful to the Sinai covenant This helps to explain the prominence of Moses in new pseudepigraphic works penned in the Hellenistic period, when the Mosaic law was challenged by Hellenizing rulers, as it helps to explain the prominence of Moses and the books associated with him at Qumran

(1792-1849) and Pharaby (Copeland) (d 1849) Hall were married in 1818 at Rich Square Monthly Meeting Moses was born in 1792 and was a son of Moses and Eliazabeth Hall Moses was named an elder in 1848 Both died in 1848 after living all of their lives near Rich Square Meeting in Northampton County, North Carolina

Italian public works project which is an acronym for "experimental electro mechanical model"

A fox-hunting dog owned by Buck and Buddy McCaslin in Go Down, Moses (named in the last section of "Was")

Great prophet of God called to lead the Jews out of Egypt to the land that God promised his forefather Abraham Moses was from the tribe of Levi Moses was also called the lawgiver, since he was the one that received the ten commandments from God directly while in Mount Sinai Moses led the Jews through the desert for 40 years while God purged out the unbelievers God performed many great miracles through Moses

(Old Testament) the Hebrew prophet who led the Israelites from Egypt across the Red sea on a journey known as the Exodus; Moses received the Ten Commandments from God on Mount Sinai

The Jewish leader who led the Jews from slavery in Egypt, and was given the ten commandments by God on Mount Sinai

United States painter of colorful and primitive rural scenes (1860-1961)

A biblical lawgiver and writer of the Pentateuch, MOSES liberated the working slaves of Egypt and lead them between a large mirage near the Sinai desert and the "reed sea" that appeared as a "wall of water" While MOSES documented his exodus in the Old Testament, he was given commandments from GOD byway of a tabernacle "pillar of fire" apparatus and BURNING BUSH device Believed by many to be the first worshiper of a monotheistic religion in an era when the art of worship included many idols and symbols of divine energy, MOSES represents the common holy leader in Hebraic, Christian and Islamic religions MOSES also created the linear Hebrew alphabet from PHOENICIAN logograms by using a scripture method of writing See BURNING BUSH and JESUS CHRIST

A large flatboat, used in the West Indies for taking freight from shore to ship

Leader of the Exodus in Biblical History, often associated with Akhenaten because of the seeming monotheism of the worship of the Aten Links: Religion, Moses, Oedipus and Akhenaten

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Moses basket

A basket for holding a newborn, a kind of bassinet designed to be set upon a stand

Moses baskets

plural form of Moses basket

Moses Maimonides

orig. Moses ben Maimon born March 30, 1135, Córdoba died Dec. 13, 1204, Egypt Jewish philosopher, jurist, and physician. He was obliged to practice his faith secretly after a revolutionary and fanatical Islamic sect, the Almohads, captured Córdoba. To gain religious freedom, he settled in Egypt (1165), where he won fame for his medical skill and became court physician to the sultan Saladin. Maimonides's first major work, begun at age 23 and completed 10 years later, was an Arabic commentary on the Mishna. His other writings included a monumental code of Jewish law called the Mishne Torah (in Hebrew) and a classic work of religious philosophy, The Guide of the Perplexed (in Arabic), which was influenced by the teachings of Aristotle and called for a more rational approach to Judaism. It also sought to reconcile science, philosophy, and religion. He is considered the greatest intellectual figure of medieval Judaism

Moses Mendelssohn

orig. Moses ben Menachem born Sept. 26, 1729, Dessau, Anhalt died Jan. 4, 1786, Berlin, Prussia German Jewish philosopher and scholar. The son of an impoverished scribe, he began his career as a tutor but eventually won fame for his philosophical writings, which would become influential among the 19th-century U.S. Transcendentalists. He combined Judaism with the rationalism of the Enlightenment, becoming one of the principal figures in the Haskala, which helped bring Jews into the mainstream of European culture. His works include Phädon (1767), a defense of the immortality of the soul, and Jerusalem (1783), on the relationship of religion and the state. His friend Gotthold Lessing based the protagonist of his celebrated drama Nathan the Wise on Mendelssohn. He was the grandfather of the composer Felix Mendelssohn

Moses Montefiore

{i} (1784-1885) Jewish businessman and philanthropist

Moses basket

a large basket with handles, in which a baby can sleep and be carried

Moses de León

orig. Moses ben Shem Tov born 1240, León died 1305, Arevalo Reputed author of the Sefer ha-zohar, the most important work of Jewish mysticism. Little is known of his life, though he is believed to have lived in Guadalajara (the centre for Spanish adherents of the Kabbala) until 1290 and later to have traveled widely. He represented the Zohar as an ancient book that he had discovered, but it is more likely a work of his own authorship

Books of Moses

The first five books of the Old Testament

holy Moses

expression of surprise, contempt, outrage, disgust, boredom, frustration

Edwin Moses

born Aug. 31, 1955, Dayton, Ohio, U.S. U.S. track-and-field athlete. He went to Morehouse College on an academic scholarship but starred in track. He won the gold medal for the 400-m hurdle in the 1976 and 1984 Olympics and set four successive world records in the event between 1976 and 1983

Five Books of Moses

Pentateuch, Torah, first of three sections which comprise the Old Testament (includes the Books of Genesis, Exodus, Leviticus, Numbers and Deuteronomy)

Grandma Moses

Moses, Grandma. a US artist who did not begin painting until she was almost 70 years old. Her paintings of life in the American countryside are in the primitive style (=they are very simple, and made to look like children's paintings) (1860-1961). orig. Anna Mary Robertson born Sept. 7, 1860, Greenwich, N.Y., U.S. died Dec. 13, 1961, Hoosick Falls, N.Y. U.S. painter. She began to produce embroidery pictures after her husband died in 1927. When arthritis impaired her embroidering, she turned to painting. She had her first exhibition in a drugstore in 1938 at age

Grandma Moses

She went on to produce more than 1,000 nostalgic, naively executed scenes of turn-of-the-century rural life (e.g., Catching the Thanksgiving Turkey, Over the River to Grandma's House). By 1939 her pictures were being exhibited internationally, and from 1946 they were regularly reproduced on holiday greeting cards

Law of Moses

book of laws given by Moses to the people of Israel, 5 books of Moses, Torah

Law of Moses

Mosaic Law

Operation Moses

Israeli mission carried out in 1984 in which almost 8000 Ethiopian Jews were brought to Israel in an airlift rescue

Robert Moses

born Dec. 18, 1888, New Haven, Conn., U.S. died July 29, 1981, West Islip, N.Y. U.S. public official. He began his long career in public service in New York City's bureau of municipal research. In 1919 Gov. Alfred E. Smith appointed him chief of staff of the New York state reconstruction commission and, in 1924, head of both the New York and Long Island state park commissions. For 40 years in these and related positions, Moses supervised the vast expansion of the park system and the construction of numerous roads, bridges, tunnels, and housing projects in and around the city, reshaping it on a grand scale in often controversial ways

William Moses Kunstler

born July 7, 1919, New York, N.Y., U.S. died Sept. 4, 1995, New York City U.S. lawyer who defended a number of controversial clients in high-profile cases. After graduating from Yale University (1941) he served in the army in the Pacific during World War II, earning a Bronze Star. He graduated from Columbia Law School in 1948. In the 1950s and '60s he became involved with the American Civil Liberties Union and clients such as the antisegregationist Freedom Riders and Martin Luther King, Jr., not only defending them in court but becoming active in their causes. He gained national renown for his defense of the "Chicago Seven" on charges of conspiring to incite riots in Chicago during the 1968 Democratic national convention. In other cases that reflected his political leanings, he represented black power activists Stokely Carmichael and Bobby Seale, antiwar activist Daniel Berrigan, and prisoners accused in the aftermath of the deadly 1971 riot at the state prison in Attica, N.Y. Perhaps his most notorious clients were Mafia boss John Gotti and Sheikh Omar Abdel Rahman, who was convicted in 1995 of conspiring to blow up the World Trade Center

Hyphenation

Mo·ses

Turkish pronunciation

mōzıs

Pronunciation

/ˈmōzəs/ /ˈmoʊzəs/

Etymology

[ 'mO-z&z also -z& ] (noun.) From the Ancient Greek Μωϋσῆς from the Classical Hebrew משה