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The LORD's hesed reaching a Moabite widow, and the kinsman-redeemer who rehearses Christ: full to empty to full across four chapters.
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- Ruth, a person of Scripture.The 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…
- Ruth, a heading of the topical index.A heading of Nave's Topical Bible (1896): every passage it gathers, quoted.
- Ruth: the Study Guide, a featured study.The LORD's hesed reaching a Moabite widow, and the kinsman-redeemer who rehearses Christ: full to empty to full across four chapters.
Verses
23 results- 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 results- 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
2 results- PlaceMoabThe high country east of the Dead Sea, home of Lot's descendants, where Balak hired Balaam, where Ruth was born, and where Moses looked on the land and died.
- PlaceBethlehemDavid’s town, six miles south of Jerusalem, where Ruth gleaned, where Samuel anointed a shepherd boy, and where Jesus was born as Micah had said.
Words (Strong's)
3 results- WordH7327 רוּת · Rûwth (Hebrew)Ruth, a Moabitess. The Hebrew word stands 12 times in the original text.
- WordG4503 Ῥούθ · Rhoúth (Greek)Ruth, a Moabitess. The Greek word stands 1 time in the original text.
- WordH3808 לֹא · lôʼ (Hebrew)not (the simple or abs. negation). The Hebrew word stands 5,168 times in the original text.
Themes
5 results- 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…
- 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…
- 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…
Topics
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2 resultsFeatured studies
3 results- StudyRuth: 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.
- StudyThe Kinsman-RedeemerNear, willing, and able: the law's threefold qualification for a redeemer, met by Boaz at the gate and fulfilled in Christ.
- StudyThe 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.
Voices
18 results- VoiceJeromeEusebius 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…
- VoiceBedeBede 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…
- VoiceIsaac 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…
- VoiceA.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…
- VoiceThomas AquinasThomas was born about 1225 at Roccasecca, between Rome and Naples, the youngest son of the count of Aquino. His family sent him at five to the great Benedictine abbey of Monte…
Apocrypha (study resources)
51 results- 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.