רוּתRûwth

proper name, feminine: Ruth, Moabitess, ancestress of David (Ruth 1:4; Ruth 1:14; Ruth 1:16; Ruth 1:22; Ruth 2:2)

Pronunciation: rooth · Hebrew/Aramaic (Old Testament) · H7327

Same root

Where it appears

Appears 12 times in the Bible.

  • Ruth 1:4 The two sons married Moabite women. One married a woman named Orpah, and the other a woman named Ruth. But about ten years later,
  • Ruth 1:14 And again they wept together, and Orpah kissed her mother-in-law good-bye. But Ruth clung tightly to Naomi.
  • Ruth 1:16 But Ruth replied, “Don’t ask me to leave you and turn back. Wherever you go, I will go; wherever you live, I will live. Your people will be my people, and your God will be my God.
  • Ruth 1:22 So Naomi returned from Moab, accompanied by her daughter-in-law Ruth, the young Moabite woman. They arrived in Bethlehem in late spring, at the beginning of the barley harvest.
  • Ruth 2:2 One day Ruth the Moabite said to Naomi, “Let me go out into the harvest fields to pick up the stalks of grain left behind by anyone who is kind enough to let me do it.” Naomi replied, “All right, my daughter, go ahead.”
  • Ruth 2:8 Boaz went over and said to Ruth, “Listen, my daughter. Stay right here with us when you gather grain; don’t go to any other fields. Stay right behind the young women working in my field.
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Source: Brown, Driver and Briggs, Hebrew and English Lexicon of the Old Testament (1906), public domain; markup by unfoldingWord, CC BY (github.com/unfoldingWord/Brown-Driver-Briggs-Enhanced).