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pā´hath-mō´ab (פּחת־מו×ב, pahÌ£ath moÌ„'aÌ„bh, “sheik of Moabâ€; in I Esdras ; 8:31, “Phaath Moabâ€): A Jewish clan probably named after an ancestor of the above title. Part of the clan returned with Zerubbabel (; compare ) under two family names, Jeshua and Joab; and a part came back with Ezra (). Hashub, a “son of Pahath-moab,†is named among the repairers of both the wall and the “tower of the furnaces†at Jerusalem (). It is the name of one of the signatories “sealing†the “sure covenant†of (). Some of the sons of this name had taken “strange wives†()