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Ruth 3:16

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When 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.

BSB

The same verse in ASV and KJV ▾

ASV

And when she came to her mother-in-law, she said, Who art thou, my daughter? And she told her all that the man had done to her.

KJV

And when she came to her mother in law, she said, Who art thou, my daughter? And she told her all that the man had done to her.

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This verse in Ruth 3

Commentary

5 notes on this verse
Who art thou, my daughter? - In the dim twilight Rth 3:14 her mother was not sure at first who the young woman was, who sought admittance into the house.

This site's exposition

rose up before one could

on Ruth 3:14-16

She leaves in light too thin for recognition and Boaz orders that it not be known a woman came into the floor, which guards the name verse 11 says the whole city already honours. The six measures are six of something the text never names, and the readings run from six omers to six seahs, Barnes reckoning the larger figure a load heavy enough that Boaz had to lift it onto her. Naomi's question at verse 16 is the same three words Boaz used at verse 9, Who art thou, and Ruth answers this one by telling the whole of it.

The record, by era

The Puritans and the Awakening3 voices

A commentator

John Wesley

1703–1791

Explanatory Notes upon the Old Testament (1765)

Who art thou? - This is not a question of doubting, but of wonder, as if she had said, Art thou in very deed my daughter? How camest thou hither in this manner, and thus early?
And when she came to her mother in law,....

A commentator

Matthew Henry

1662–1714

Commentary on the Whole Bible (1710)

proposed

Naomi's care for her daughter's comfort is without doubt very commendable, and is recorded for imitation. She had no thoughts of marrying herself, ch. i. But, though she that was old had resolved upon a perpetual widowhood, yet she was far from the thoughts of confining her daughter-in-law to it, that was young.

The words behind it

15 Hebrew words

Every Hebrew word of this verse in the order it stands, with what it means and the door to its own study. The last column counts the times a word stands in the whole Bible: the rarer the word, the more the places it appears belong together.

  • וַתָּבוֹא֙and she came

    vatavo'H935 →2568 times

  • אֶל־to

    ʾel-H413 →5510 times

  • חֲמוֹתָ֔הּmother-in-law her

    chamotahH2545 →11 times

  • וַתֹּ֖אמֶרand she said

    vatomerH559 →5305 times

  • מִי־who?

    mi-H4310 →423 times

  • אַ֣תְּ[are] you

    ʾatH859 →1094 times

  • בִּתִּ֑יO daughter my

    bitiH1323 →588 times

  • וַתַּ֨גֶּד־and she told

    vataged-H5046 →370 times

  • לָ֔הּto <the> her

    lah

  • אֵ֛ת<obj.>

    ʾetH853 →10935 times

  • כָּל־all

    kol-H3605 →5413 times

  • אֲשֶׁ֥רthat

    ʾasherH834 →5497 times

  • עָֽשָׂה־he had done

    ʾasah-H6213 →2628 times

  • לָ֖הּfor <the> her

    lah

  • הָאִֽישׁ׃the man

    haishH376 →1663 times

A shaded row is a word that stands 400 times or fewer in the Bible.

Where this verse is studied

About Ruth

Ruth and Boaz, Gustave Doré, 1866. Public domain.
Ruth and Boaz, Gustave Doré, 1866. Public domain.
Ruth: the study guide →Read Ruth 3 →

This page draws on Albert Barnes, Notes, Explanatory and Practical, on the Old and New Testaments (1832-1869); Albert Barnes, Notes on the Old Testament; John Gill, Exposition of the Old Testament (1748-1763); John Wesley, Explanatory Notes upon the Old Testament and Matthew Henry, Commentary on the Whole Bible.

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