Hebrew proper noun (a person) · H1162
בֹּעַז
Boazbo'-az
Boaz
24 uses in the Hebrew text, one for each word STEP Bible has tagged with this key
Concordance spelling: Bôʻaz
Word page · Part of the concordance, one page for every word of the Hebrew and Greek text. Strong's H1162is this word's number in James Strong's 1890 index of the King James Bible.
- 4 of 39Old Testament books
- 14spellings
The definition in full
Strong's key (1890) · H1162
Boaz, the ancestor of David; also the name of a pillar in front of the temple
The King James renders it: Boaz.
James Strong, The Exhaustive Concordance of the Bible (1890), public domain. Strong indexed the King James text, and this site quotes his entry as that index.
Summary
Boaz is rendered "Boaz". It stands 24 times in the Hebrew text, across four books.
- Twenty of the uses stand in Ruth, more than in any other book.
- Its first use in canonical order opens the ledger below.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.
- The Greek text spells it fourteen different ways.
The first use
Now Naomi had a relative on her husband’s side, a prominent man of noble character from the clan of Elimelech, whose name was Boaz.
Ruth 2:1בֹּֽעַז׃
The first use, in the order of the Old Testament's books.
Where the word stands
Twenty of the word's twenty-four uses are in Ruth.
What the word means
Each meaning, and the words it is translated by
How the Greek text is glossed, word by word
- Boaz19
- and Boaz3
- of Boaz1
- to Boaz1
The words built on the same word-part
Each word below begins with the same letters this one begins with. A shared word-part shows a family. It does not settle what any one of them means, so each word carries its own uses on its own page. Scholars call that shared part the stem.
All 24, in canonical order
Every use, in order
Every use, grouped by book, with its verse.
14 spellings and their grammar
STEP Bible tags every word of the Hebrew and Greek text with its spelling and its grammar. Both lists below count the rows printed underneath, written out in English, with the code beside each one as it was tagged.
How it is spelled
- בֹּֽעַז׃4
- בֹּ֙עַז֙3
- בֹּ֨עַז3
- בֹּ֔עַז3
- בֹּ֤עַז2
- בֹ֗עַז1
- בֹ֜עַז1
- בֹ֙עַז֙1
- בֹּֽעַז׃ ס1
- וּבֹ֨עַז1
- וּבֹ֖עַז1
- וּבֹ֙עַז֙1
and 2 more spellings in the ledger below.
The grammar of each form
- proper noun (a name)19HNpm
- conjunction (“and”) + proper noun (a name)3HC/Npm
- preposition + proper noun (a name)2HR/Npm
Ruth
twenty uses
Now Naomi had a relative on her husband’s side, a prominent man of noble character from the clan of Elimelech, whose name was Boaz.
- בֹּֽעַז׃boazproper noun (a name)tagged: Boaz
So Ruth departed and went out into the field and gleaned after the harvesters. And she happened to come to the part of the field belonging to Boaz, who was from the clan of Elimelech.
- לְבֹ֔עַזlevoazpreposition + proper noun (a name)tagged: of Boaz
Just then Boaz arrived from Bethlehem and said to the harvesters, “The LORD be with you.” “The LORD bless you,” they replied.
- בֹ֗עַזvoazproper noun (a name)tagged: Boaz
And Boaz asked the foreman of his harvesters, “Whose young woman is this?”
- בֹּ֙עַז֙boazproper noun (a name)tagged: Boaz
Then Boaz said to Ruth, “Listen, my daughter. Do not go and glean in another field, and do not go away from this place, but stay here close to my servant girls.
- בֹּ֨עַזboazproper noun (a name)tagged: Boaz
Boaz replied, “I have been made fully aware of all you have done for your mother-in-law since the death of your husband, how you left your father and mother and the land of your birth, and how you came to a people you did not know before.
- בֹּ֙עַז֙boazproper noun (a name)tagged: Boaz
At mealtime Boaz said to her, “Come over here; have some bread and dip it into the vinegar sauce.” So she sat down beside the harvesters, and he offered her roasted grain, and she ate and was satisfied and had some left over.
- בֹ֜עַזvoazproper noun (a name)tagged: Boaz
When Ruth got up to glean, Boaz ordered his young men, “Even if she gathers among the sheaves, do not insult her.
- בֹּ֨עַזboazproper noun (a name)tagged: Boaz
Then her mother-in-law asked her, “Where did you glean today, and where did you work? Blessed be the man who noticed you.” So she told her mother-in-law where she had worked. “The name of the man I worked with today is Boaz,” she said.
- בֹּֽעַז׃boazproper noun (a name)tagged: Boaz
So Ruth stayed close to the servant girls of Boaz to glean grain until the barley and wheat harvests were finished. And she lived with her mother-in-law.
- בֹּ֙עַז֙boazproper noun (a name)tagged: Boaz
Now is not Boaz, with whose servant girls you have been working, a relative of ours? In fact, tonight he is winnowing barley on the threshing floor.
- בֹ֙עַז֙voazproper noun (a name)tagged: Boaz
After Boaz had finished eating and drinking and was in good spirits, he went to lie down at the end of the heap of grain. Then Ruth went in secretly, uncovered his feet, and lay down.
- בֹּ֤עַזboazproper noun (a name)tagged: Boaz
Meanwhile, Boaz went to the gate and sat down there. Soon the kinsman-redeemer of whom he had spoken came along, and Boaz said, “Come over here, my friend, and sit down.” So he went over and sat down.
- וּבֹ֨עַזuvoazconjunction (“and”) + proper noun (a name)tagged: and Boaz
- בֹּ֔עַזboazproper noun (a name)tagged: Boaz
Then Boaz said, “On the day you buy the land from Naomi and also from Ruth the Moabitess, you must also acquire the widow of the deceased in order to raise up the name of the deceased on his inheritance.”
- בֹּ֔עַזboazproper noun (a name)tagged: Boaz
So the kinsman-redeemer removed his sandal and said to Boaz, “Buy it for yourself.”
- לְבֹ֖עַזlevoazpreposition + proper noun (a name)tagged: to Boaz
At this, Boaz said to the elders and all the people, “You are witnesses today that I am buying from Naomi all that belonged to Elimelech, Chilion, and Mahlon.
- בֹּ֨עַזboazproper noun (a name)tagged: Boaz
So Boaz took Ruth, and she became his wife. And when he had relations with her, the LORD enabled her to conceive, and she gave birth to a son.
- בֹּ֤עַזboazproper noun (a name)tagged: Boaz
Salmon was the father of Boaz, Boaz was the father of Obed,
- בֹּ֔עַזboazproper noun (a name)tagged: Boaz
- וּבֹ֖עַזuvoazconjunction (“and”) + proper noun (a name)tagged: and Boaz
1 Kings
one use
Thus he set up the pillars at the portico of the temple. The pillar to the south he named Jachin, and the pillar to the north he named Boaz.
- בֹּֽעַז׃boazproper noun (a name)tagged: Boaz
1 Chronicles
two uses
Nahshon was the father of Salmon, and Salmon was the father of Boaz.
- בֹּֽעַז׃boazproper noun (a name)tagged: Boaz
Boaz was the father of Obed, and Obed was the father of Jesse.
- וּבֹ֙עַז֙uvoazconjunction (“and”) + proper noun (a name)tagged: and Boaz
2 Chronicles
one use
Then he set up the pillars in front of the temple, one on the south and one on the north. The pillar on the south he named Jachin, and the pillar on the north he named Boaz.
- בֹּֽעַז׃ סboazproper noun (a name)tagged: Boaz
Where it leads
How the numbers are counted
Every count on this page comes from STEP Bible's tagged Hebrew and Greek text, the same text the ledger prints. A use is counted once each time the tagging marks a word with this key.
Spellings are counted as the Greek text spells them, with the sentence's own punctuation taken off the word first, so a form that ends a clause is not counted as a second spelling.
The words it stands beside are the nouns, verbs and adjectives immediately before or after it, counted in every verse where the word stands. The article, the conjunctions and the prepositions are left out, because they stand beside every word.