Ancient Greek

Alternative forms

• Μωσῆς ‎(Mōsês)
• Μωυση ‎(Mōusē)
• Μοϋσῆς ‎(Moüsês)

• (4th AD Koine) IPA^(key): /moysís/

• (10th AD Byzantine) IPA^(key): /moysís/

• (15th AD Constantinopolitan) IPA^(key): /moisís/

Proper noun

Μωϋσῆς • ‎(Mōüsês) m ‎(genitive Μωυσέως); third declension

1. Moses.

Inflection

Descendants

Μωυσής is the ancestor of most forms of the name Moses used in Christendom. Most Islamic world forms derive from Arabic موسى. Most Jewish community forms derive directly from the Hebrew or other Jewish languages.

References

• NA27
• Bauer lexicon
• “G3475”, in Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance to the Bible, 1979