Naomi

Naomi in Scripture

Open a book to read its mentions here. Text: Berean Standard Bible. Names repeat in Scripture, so some of these verses may speak of another person called Naomi.

Old Testament1 book · 27 mentions

Ruth27 mentions

Ruth 1:2The man’s name was Elimelech, his wife’s name was Naomi, and the names of his two sons were Mahlon and Chilion. They were Ephrathites from Bethlehem in Judah, and they entered the land of Moab and settled there.
Ruth 1:3Then Naomi’s husband Elimelech died, and she was left with her two sons,
Ruth 1:5both Mahlon and Chilion also died, and Naomi was left without her two sons and without her husband.
Ruth 1:6When Naomi heard in Moab that the LORD had attended to His people by providing them with food, she and her daughters-in-law prepared to leave the land of Moab.
Ruth 1:8Then Naomi said to her two daughters-in-law, “Go back, each of you to your mother’s home. May the LORD show you loving devotion, as you have shown to your dead and to me.

22 further mentions in Ruth, read them in the book.

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Nave's Topical Bible on Naomi

Orville J. Nave gathered 4 passages under this heading in 1896. His outline and his opening passages stand here; the full heading is one click on.

-The mother-in-law of Ruth RUT 1; 2; 3; 4

Nave's full heading →Nave’s Topical Bible (1896), public domain.

Named alongside

Other people MannaFest has a page for whose name the text uses in Ruth 1, Ruth 2, Ruth 3 and Ruth 4. Each card shows the verse it came from. Scripture reuses names freely, so a page behind a name here may belong to another person who shares it.

BoazThe mighty man of wealth in Bethlehem who spread his skirt over Ruth as kinsman-redeemer (goel), bought the inheritance…Ruth 2:1Now Naomi had a relative on her husband’s side, a prominent man of noble character from the clan of Elimelech, whose name was Boaz.

RuthThe Moabitess who clave to Naomi — "thy people shall be my people, and thy God my God" — gleaned in the field of Boaz,…Ruth 1:4who took Moabite women as their wives, one named Orpah and the other named Ruth. And after they had lived in Moab about ten years,

JudahJacob's fourth son who pledges himself for Benjamin; the tribe that carries the scepter to Shiloh (49:10) and the line…Ruth 1:1In the days when the judges ruled, there was a famine in the land. And a certain man from Bethlehem in Judah, with his wife and two sons, went to reside in the land of Moab.

DavidSecond king of united Israel, shepherd-turned-monarch, ancestor of the Messiah, and traditional author of many Psalms.Ruth 4:17The neighbor women said, “A son has been born to Naomi,” and they named him Obed. He became the father of Jesse, the father of David.

LeahJacob's unloved first wife, on whom the LORD's eye fell — the mother of Judah, the messianic tribe, and of Levi, the pr…Ruth 4:11“We are witnesses,” said the elders and all the people at the gate. “May the LORD make the woman entering your home like Rachel and Leah, who together built up the house of Israel. May you be prosperous in Ephrathah and famous in Bethlehem.

RachelJacob's beloved wife; mother of Joseph and Benjamin, who dies on the road to Bethlehem — later wept for in the prophets…Ruth 4:11“We are witnesses,” said the elders and all the people at the gate. “May the LORD make the woman entering your home like Rachel and Leah, who together built up the house of Israel. May you be prosperous in Ephrathah and famous in Bethlehem.