Word

רוּת

Rûwth · H7327 · Hebrew · proper noun · 12 occurrences

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Person

Ruthfirst named in Ruth 1:413 verses

Meanings

Ruth

A woman from Moab who was the wife of Mahlon, son of Elimelech, and after Mahlon's death married Boaz and so became the mother of Obed and the great-grandmother of David

Examples
Ruth 1:4 And they took for themselves Moabite women as wives; the name of the one was Orpah, and the name of the other, Ruth. And they lived there about ten years.
Ruth 1:14 And they raised their voices and wept again; and Orpah kissed her mother-in-law, but Ruth clung to her.
Ruth 1:16 But Ruth said, “Do not plead with me to leave you or to turn back from following you; for where you go, I will go, and where you sleep, I will sleep. Your people shall be my people, and your God, my God.

How it’s used In 5 roles

Every occurrence, grouped by the words it is grammatically related to.

the word studied the word it goes with

Named alongside itApposition

7 occurrences in 4 groups

מוֹאָבִיMoabite 5
כַּלָּהdaughter-in-law 2
אִשָּׁהwoman, wife 2
אָמָהfemale servant, maid 1

What it doesIt is the subject

4 occurrences in 2 groups

אָמַרto say 3
דָּבַקto cling, to cleave 1

What is done to itIt is the object

2 occurrences in 2 groups

לָקַחto take, to receive 1
קָנָהto buy, to acquire 1

What is said to be itIt is the predicate

2 occurrences in 2 groups

אָנֹכִיI 1
שֵׁםname 1

After prepositionsPrepositional phrases

2 occurrences in 1 groups

אֵלto, toward 4

When two words share a role, as in “Paul and Barnabas said”, the verse appears under each, so a section’s counts can add up to more than the number of occurrences.

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Semantic domains 1 entry

Names of People003001007: This is the personal name Ruth, the Moabite ancestress of David named in the book bearing her name.

Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon H7327. Ruth רוּת proper name, feminine Ruth (for רְעוּת, i.e. friendship, Syriac , Thes…

H7327. Ruth
רוּת proper name, feminine Ruth (for רְעוּת, i.e. friendship, Syriac , Thes LagBN 84, 156; Or. ii. 41 Köii. 1. 481); — Moabitess, ancestress of David, Rth 1:4, Rth 1:14, Rth 1:16, Rth 1:22; Rth 2:2, Rth 2:8, Rth 2:21, Rth 2:22; Rth 3:9; Rth 4:5, Rth 4:10, Rth 4:13; Ρουθ.

Brown, Driver and Briggs, A Hebrew and English Lexicon of the Old Testament (1906), public domain

Topical studies with this word 1 entry

Names of People12 occurrences

Meanings adapted from the UBS Dictionary of the Greek New Testament, © United Bible Societies, CC BY-SA 4.0 and the UBS Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew (from the Semantic Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew), © United Bible Societies, CC BY-SA 4.0; MACULA Greek Linguistic Datasets, available at https://github.com/Clear-Bible/macula-greek/, licensed CC BY 4.0; MACULA Hebrew Linguistic Datasets © 2022-2024 by Biblica, Inc., CC BY 4.0. Westminster Leningrad Codex (tanach.us). OpenScriptures Hebrew Bible morphology (hb.openscriptures.org), CC BY 4.0.

Sources

eRhema lexical overview, based on the UBS Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew and the UBS Dictionary of the Greek New Testament (© United Bible Societies, CC BY-SA 4.0) and Macula Hebrew and Greek (Clear Bible, CC BY 4.0); released under CC BY-SA 4.0