Ruth 2:21 BSB — MannaFest

Ruth 2:21

Then Ruth the Moabitess said, “He also told me, ‘Stay with my young men until they have finished gathering all my harvest.’”

BSB

Parallel translations (2) ▾

ASV

And Ruth the Moabitess said, Yea, he said unto me, Thou shalt keep fast by my young men, until they have ended all my harvest.

KJV

And Ruth the Moabitess said, He said unto me also, Thou shalt keep fast by my young men, until they have ended all my harvest.

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Commentary

1 voice

Adam Clarke

1762–1832

Commentary on the Bible (1832)

Keep fast by my young men - The word הנערים hannearim should be translated servants, both the male and female being included in it; the latter especially, as we see in Rth 2:22, Rth 2:23.

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Original language & word study

20 tagged words

Original	Transliteration	Meaning	Word study
וַתֹּ֖אמֶר	va.To.mer	and she said	H559 →
ר֣וּת	rut	Ruth	H7327 →
הַמּוֹאֲבִיָּ֑ה	ha.mo.'a.vi.Yah	the Moabite [woman]	H4125 →
גַּ֣ם׀	gam	also	H1571 →
כִּי־	ki-	that	H3588 →
אָמַ֣ר	'a.Mar	he said	H559 →
אֵלַ֗י	'e.Lai	to me	H413 →
עִם־	'im-	with	H5973 →
הַנְּעָרִ֤ים	ha.ne.'a.Rim	the servants	H5288 →
אֲשֶׁר־	'a.Sher-	who	H834 →
לִי֙	li	[belong] to <the> me
תִּדְבָּקִ֔ין	tid.ba.Kin	you will stay !	H1692 →
עַ֣ד	'ad	until	H5704 →
אִם־	'im-	<if>	H518 →
כִּלּ֔וּ	ki.Lu	they have completed	H3615 →
אֵ֥ת	'et	<obj.>	H853 →
כָּל־	kol-	all	H3605 →
הַקָּצִ֖יר	ha.ka.Tzir	the harvest	H7105 →
אֲשֶׁר־	'a.Sher-	which	H834 →
לִֽי׃	Li	[belongs] to <the> me

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The walk

The walk2

Where the connections lead

Follow this verse’s cross-references two steps out. Each card is a verse this one points to, and beneath it the verses that one points to in turn. Where several different paths arrive at the same place, that place is listed first: the text keeps returning to it. Every stop shows its own words, and every stop is a page.

Through
Ruth 2:22
And Naomi said to her daughter-in-law Ruth, “My daughter, it is good for you to work with his young women, so that nothing will happen to you in another field.”
leads to
- Song of Solomon 1:8
  If you do not know, O fairest of women, follow the tracks of the flock, and graze your young goats near the tents of the shepherds.
- Proverbs 27:10
  Do not forsake your friend or your father’s friend, and do not go to your brother’s house in the day of your calamity; better a neighbor nearby than a brother far away.