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Ruth
Feature Pages(3)
- FeatureRuth — the Study GuideThe LORD's hesed reaching a Moabite widow, and the kinsman-redeemer who rehearses Christ — full to empty to full across four chapters.
- FeatureThe Kinsman-RedeemerNear, willing, and able — the law's threefold qualification for a redeemer, met by Boaz at the gate and fulfilled in Christ.
- FeatureThe Genealogy of Jesus — Matthew's 3×14Fourteen, fourteen, fourteen: the design Matthew states out loud, the four women in the royal line, and the Jeconiah hinge.
Verses(5+)
- VerseRuth 3:5“I will do everything you say,” Ruth answered.
- VerseRuth 1:18When Naomi saw that Ruth was determined to go with her, she stopped trying to persuade her.
- VerseRuth 3:16When Ruth returned to her mother-in-law, Naomi asked her, “How did it go, my daughter?” Then Ruth told her all that Boaz had done for her.
- VerseRuth 1:14Again they wept aloud, and Orpah kissed her mother-in-law goodbye, but Ruth clung to her.
- VerseRuth 2:15When Ruth got up to glean, Boaz ordered his young men, “Even if she gathers among the sheaves, do not insult her.
People(3)
- PersonRuthThe Moabitess who clave to Naomi — "thy people shall be my people, and thy God my God" — gleaned in the field of Boaz, and became great-grandmother to David: a Gentile grafted…
- PersonBoazThe mighty man of wealth in Bethlehem who spread his skirt over Ruth as kinsman-redeemer (goel), bought the inheritance at the gate, and fathered Obed — the redeemer-figure of…
- PersonNaomiElimelech's widow who returned from Moab calling herself Mara — "the Almighty hath dealt very bitterly with me" — and whose emptiness God filled through Ruth's faithfulness and…
Places(1)
Words (Strong's)(3)
Themes(5)
- ThemeRedemptionRedemption is the Bible's word for rescue that costs something. Two Hebrew verbs carry the weight: *ga'al*, the act of a near kinsman (*go'el*) who buys back land, a person, or…
- ThemeGraceGrace is God's unearned favor. The Hebrew word for it is *chen* — a gift given because the giver is gracious, not because the receiver has earned it — and it is *chen* that the…
- ThemeLoveThe Old Testament's word for it is *chesed* — not a feeling but a covenant posture: steadfast, loyal, obligated love that keeps showing up whether or not it is deserved. God's…
- ThemeMercyMercy in Scripture is not a mood God occasionally feels but a self-disclosed name. When the LORD passes before Moses on Sinai and proclaims who He is, the first words out are…
- ThemeWorshipScripture's worship vocabulary carries two roots held together: *shachah* (to bow down, prostrate) and *abad* (to serve, to labor for). *Shachah* is first rendered "worship" at…
Topics(2)
Prophecies(2)
Authors(5+)
- AuthorJeromeEusebius Hieronymus was born about 347 at Stridon, a town on the border of Dalmatia and Pannonia that no longer exists. His parents were Christians with money. They sent him to…
- AuthorBedeBede was born about 673 on land belonging to the twin monastery of Wearmouth and Jarrow, in Northumbria. He was handed over to the monks at the age of seven. He never really…
- AuthorIsaac of NinevehIsaac was born in Beth Qatraye, the Christian region along the western shore of the Persian Gulf, in what is now Qatar. He became a monk young. Around 676 the East Syriac…
- AuthorA.W. PinkArthur Walkington Pink was born in Nottingham, England, on April 1, 1886, into a corn merchant's family. He was a bright young man who went looking for spiritual reality in the…
- AuthorJamie WinshipJamie Winship is an American minister, ministry trainer, cross-cultural worker, and co-founder (with his wife Donna) of Identity Exchange, a training-and-consulting ministry…
Apocrypha (study resources)(5+)
- Study resource1 Esdras 3:12The third wrote, Women are strongest: but above all things Truth beareth away the victory.
- Study resource1 Esdras 4:13Then the third, who had spoken of women, and of the truth, (this was Zorobabel) began to speak.
- Study resource1 Esdras 4:33Then the king and the princes looked one upon another: so he began to speak of the truth.
- Study resource1 Esdras 4:35Is he not great that maketh these things? therefore great is the truth, and stronger than all things.
- Study resource1 Esdras 4:36All the earth crieth upon the truth, and the heaven blesseth it: all works shake and tremble at it, and with it is no unrighteous thing.