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# רוּת

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H7327

**Ruth** — used 12 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

Ruth [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1512/7327/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

רוּת²: n.pr.f. Ruth [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1512/7327/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** n.pr.f. Ruth (for רְעוּת, i.e. friendship, Syriac ܪܥܽܘܬ, Thes LagBN 84, 156; Or. ii. 41 Kö ii. 1, 481);—Moabitess, ancestress of David, Ru 1:4, 14, 16, 22; 2:2, 8, 21, 22; 3:9; 4:5, 10, 13; Ρουθ.

Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 12 of its verses cited, 1 words shared with the glosses, lists its Strong's number (2 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 1 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: Ruth (10); \[am\] Ruth (1); \[was\] Ruth (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 3:9](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/RUT.3.9/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/RUT.3.9/#tree)

וַיֹּ֖אמֶר מִי־אָ֑תּוַתֹּ֗אמֶר אָנֹכִי֙ ר֣וּת אֲמָתֶ֔ךָ וּפָרַשְׂתָּ֤ כְנָפֶ֙ךָ֙ עַל־אֲמָ֣תְךָ֔ כִּ֥י גֹאֵ֖ל אָֽתָּה׃

*Word for word:* and he.said who? \[are\].you and she.said I \[am\].Ruth maidservant your and you.will.spread.out skirt your over maidservant your (dm) \[are\].a.kinsman-redeemer you

*JPS 1917:* And he said: 'Who art thou?' And she answered: 'I am Ruth thine handmaid; spread therefore thy skirt over thy handmaid; for thou art a near kinsman.'

## On Mova

- [This word in the Tanakh dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/7327.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1512/7327/): 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).