Governor of Moab, a person whose descendants returned from the Captivity and assisted in rebuilding Jerusalem (Ezra 2:6; 8:4; 10:30).
Pahath-Moab
Pahathmoab is the name of a family that came home from exile. Ezra 2:6 counts them as “the children of Pahathmoab, of the children of Jeshua and Joab,” with a total of 2,812, and Nehemiah 7:11 gives 2,818. Individual men turn up too. Hashub the son of Pahathmoab helped repair a piece of Jerusalem’s wall along with “the tower of the furnaces” (Nehemiah 3:11), and Ezra 10:30 names seven of the family’s sons. Nehemiah 3 shows families working side by side on the wall.
4 verses
Ezra
Ezra 2:6
The children of Pahathmoab, of the children of Jeshua and Joab, two thousand eight hundred and twelve.
Ezra 10:30
And of the sons of Pahathmoab; Adna, and Chelal, Benaiah, Maaseiah, Mattaniah, Bezaleel, and Binnui, and Manasseh.
Nehemiah
Nehemiah 3:11
Malchijah the son of Harim, and Hashub the son of Pahathmoab, repaired the other piece, and the tower of the furnaces.
Nehemiah 7:11
The children of Pahathmoab, of the children of Jeshua and Joab, two thousand and eight hundred and eighteen.
From Easton's Bible Dictionary
Matthew George Easton, 1897
From Smith's Bible Dictionary
William Smith, 1884
(governor of Moab), head of one of the chief houses of the tribe of Judah. Of the individual or the occasion of his receiving so singular a name nothing is known certainty but as we read in (1 Chronicles 4:22) of a family of Shilonites, of the tribe of Judah, who in very early times "had dominion in Moab," it may be conjectured that this was the origin of the name.