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# עׇרְפָּה

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H6204

**Orpah** — used 2 times in the Hebrew Bible. Below: its meanings with their sources, MACULA's glosses, and 2 verses word for word and in JPS 1917.

## Meaning

### OpenScriptures lexical index

Orpah [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1506/6204/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

עָרְפָּה: n.pr.f. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1506/6204/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** n.pr.f. sister-in-law of Ruth, Ru 1:4, 14, Ορφα.

Why these entries: BDB: same consonants, part of speech agrees, 2 of its verses cited, 0 words shared with the glosses, lists its Strong's number (1 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 0 words shared with the BDB entry, 1 with the glosses (1 candidates)

## Glosses

MACULA's English glosses of the word in the text, with how often each is used: Orpah (1); \[was\] Orpah (1).

## In the verses

[Ruth 1:14](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/RUT.1.14/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/RUT.1.14/#tree)

וַתִּשֶּׂ֣נָה קוֹלָ֔ן וַתִּבְכֶּ֖ינָה ע֑וֹד וַתִּשַּׁ֤ק עָרְפָּה֙ לַחֲמוֹתָ֔הּ וְר֖וּת דָּ֥בְקָה בָּֽהּ׃

*Word for word:* and they.raised voice their and they.wept again and she.kissed Orpah (to) mother-in-law her and Ruth she.clung to her

*JPS 1917:* And they lifted up their voice, and wept again; and Orpah kissed her mother-in-law; but Ruth cleaved unto her.

[Ruth 1:4](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/RUT.1.4/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/RUT.1.4/#tree)

וַיִּשְׂא֣וּ לָהֶ֗ם נָשִׁים֙ מֹֽאֲבִיּ֔וֹת שֵׁ֤ם הָֽאַחַת֙ עָרְפָּ֔ה וְשֵׁ֥ם הַשֵּׁנִ֖ית ר֑וּת וַיֵּ֥שְׁבוּ שָׁ֖ם כְּעֶ֥שֶׂר שָׁנִֽים׃

*Word for word:* and they.took for themselves wives Moabites the.name of the.one \[was\].Orpah and the.name of the.second \[was\].Ruth and they.dwelt there about ten years

*JPS 1917:* And they took them wives of the women of Moab: the name of the one was Orpah, and the name of the other Ruth; and they dwelt there about ten years.

## On Mova

- [This word in the Tanakh dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/6204.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1506/6204/): every English meaning parsed by Mova, with its dependency tree and frames.

Sources. The words, their counts, glosses and the word-for-word renderings: MACULA Hebrew (the Westminster Leningrad Codex; Clear Bible, CC BY 4.0). Meanings: the OpenScriptures lexical index (CC BY 4.0), Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906 and Jastrow 1903 (public domain, via Sefaria); Targum Onkelos from Sefaria (public domain). Translation: JPS 1917 (public domain, from eBible.org).