Matthew Poole's Concise Commentary
Ruth 1:20
Naomi signifies pleasant or cheerful, or amiable. Mara signifies bitter or sorrowful.
Naomi signifies pleasant or cheerful, or amiable. Mara signifies bitter or sorrowful.
Verse Ruth 1:20. _CALL ME NOT NAOMI_] That is, _beautiful_ or _pleasant_. _CALL ME MARA_] That is, _bitter_; one whose life is grievous to her. _THE ALMIGHTY_] שדי _Shaddai_, He who is _self-suffici...
See the margin. Similar allusions to the meaning of names are seen in Genesis 27:36; Jeremiah 20:3. THE ALMIGHTY - שׁדי _shadday_ (see the...
ANALYSIS AND ANNOTATIONS CHAPTER 1 The Story of Naomi: Orpah and Ruth _ 1. Naomi and her sorrows (Ruth 1:1)_ 2. The return (Ruth 1:6) 3. Orpah turning back, Ruth cleaving (Ruth 1:14) 4. Naomi and...
RUTH AND NAOMI. Bethlehem ceased for a time to be what its name signified a house of bread. Under stress of famine Elimelech, with his wife Naomi, left his Judæ an home, and went to sojourn in the lan...
THEM. Feminine. And the verb "call" is feminine, also, so that Naomi was addressing the women. the ALMIGHTY _= Shaddai._ See App-4....
_Mara_ The word has the Aramaic, not the Hebr. fem. ending. _the Almighty hath dealt very bitterly with me_ Almost the same words as in Job 27:2. For _Almighty_the Heb. has _Shaddai_, perhaps an inten...
_Ruth's Arrival in Bethlehem Ruth 1:19-22_ 19 So they two went until they came to Beth-lehem. And it came to pass, when they were come to Beth-lehem, that all the city was moved about them, and they s...
_AND SHE SAID UNTO THEM, CALL ME NOT NAOMI, CALL ME MARA: FOR THE ALMIGHTY HATH DEALT VERY BITTERLY WITH ME._ Mara - bitter, bitterness (see the note at Exodus 15:23)....
1:20 Mara; (a-13) Meaning, 'bitter,' or 'bitterness.'...
THE EXILE AND THE RETURN OF NAOMI 1. Beth-lehem-judah] two hours' journey S. of Jerusalem, is to be distinguished from Bethlehem in Zebulun (Joshua 19:15). It was but a short distance from Moab, which...
THERE IS A *REDEEMER BOOK OF RUTH _GORDON CHURCHYARD_ Words in boxes are notes on the Bible text. JESUS SAID, ‘THE SON OF MAN CAME TO GIVE HIS LIFE TO *REDEEM MANY PEOPLE’ (MATTHEW 20:28). (‘SON O...
CALL ME NOT NAOMI, CALL ME MARA. — Here we have one of the constant plays on words and names found in the Hebrew Bible. _Naomi,_ we have already said, means _pleasant,_ or, perhaps, strictly, _my plea...
וַ תֹּ֣אמֶר אֲלֵיהֶ֔ן אַל ־תִּקְרֶ֥אנָה לִ֖י...
IN THE FIELD OF BOAZ Ruth 1:19; Ruth 2:1 WEARY and footsore the two travellers reached Bethlehem at length, and "all the city was moved about them." Though ten years had elapsed, many yet remembered...
LOVE'S STEADFAST CHOICE Ruth 1:15 This young woman was to be an ancestor of David and in the line of our Lord's descent. Moabite though she was by birth, Ruth was designated for the high honor of int...
The Book of Ruth stands in striking contrast to the Book of Judges and yet is closely connected with it. In Judges the national outlook has been presented and so dark has it been as to create the impr...
_That is. The explanations are added by St. Jerome. (Haydock) --- Noemi had formerly a husband and two sons, with great riches, of which she was now deprived. (Worthington)_...
I went out full, and the LORD hath brought me home again empty: why then call ye me Naomi, seeing the LORD hath testified against me, and the Almighty hath afflicted me? Such language is suitable to a...
FROM: LECTURES INTRODUCTORY TO THE EARLIER HISTORICAL BOOKS OF THE OLD TESTAMENT. W. Kelly. That the book of Ruth stands most fitly in the place where it is actually found must have been felt by the...
THE FOLLOWING COMMENTARY COVERS CHAPTER S 1 THROUGH 4. The Book of Ruth tells us also of the days of the judges, when there was no king in Israel; but it shews us the fair side of those days, in the o...
AND SHE SAID, CALL ME NOT NAOMI, CALL ME MARA,.... The one signifying "prosperity", according to Josephus m, and the other "grief"; but he is not always correct in his interpretation of Hebrew words,...
_And she said unto them, Call me not Naomi, call me Mara: for the Almighty hath dealt very bitterly with me._ Ver. 20. _And she said unto them._] She put her mouth in the dust, and spake in a low lan...
_Is this Naomi?_ Is this she that formerly lived in so much plenty and honour? How marvellously is her condition changed! _Call me not Naomi_ Which signifies _pleasant_, and _cheerful. Call me Mara_ W...
1 Elimelech driuen by famine into Moab, dieth there. 4 Mahlon and Chilion, hauing married wiues of Moab, die also. 6 Naomi returning homeward, 8 disswadeth her two daughters in law from going with...
And she said unto them, Call me not Naomi (lovely, gracious), CALL ME MARA (bitter); FOR THE ALMIGHTY HATH DEALT VERY BITTERLY WITH ME, He had inflicted sorrow upon her, as her obvious bereavement sho...
THE RETURN OF NAOMI WITH RUTH...
DEPARTURE BECAUSE OF FAMINE (vv. 1-5) A famine was in the land of Israel. Why? Because the literal famine was to draw attention to the spiritual famine that came before it, a famine for hearing the...
NAOMI: that is, pleasant MARA: That is, bitter...
19-22 Naomi and Ruth came to Bethlehem. Afflictions will make great and surprising changes in a little time. May God, by his grace, fit us for all such changes, especially the great change!, Naomi si...
Ruth 1:20 said H559 (H8799) call H7121 (H8799) Naomi H5281 call H7121 (H8798) Mara H4755 Almighty...
‘ And she said to them, “Do not call me Naomi, call me Mara, for the Almighty (Shaddai) has dealt very bitterly with me.” But as Naomi heard her name being spoken it brought home to her the significan...
RUTH 1-4 The Book of Ruth is a love-story told in four Chapter s. It gives us a glimpse of everyday life in Bethlehem; in home and in harvest-field, in its general gossip and its law-suits, more than...
CONTENTS: Naomi departs from Moab and returns with Ruth to Bethlehem. CHARACTERS: God, Naomi, Ruth, Orpah, Elimelech, Mahlon, Chilion. CONCLUSION: When we take God for our Father we must take His pe...
Ruth 1:1. _When the judges ruled,_ about a hundred years before the birth of David. Famines were mostly occasioned by want of rain. Ruth 1:2. _Ephrathites;_ not Ephraimites, but of Ephrath, the old na...
_Call me not Naomi, call me Mara._ NAOMI I. Incidents in her life. This world is to all, in some measure, “a vale of tears.” The pilgrimage of the true Christian is not through verdant plains and flo...
RUTH—NOTE ON RUTH 1:6 Scene 1: Naomi Returns to Bethlehem with Ruth. This first scene relates Ruth’s kindness in returning with Naomi to Bethlehem. ⇐...
RUTH—NOTE ON RUTH 1:20 THE LORD HAS TESTIFIED AGAINST ME. Naomi thinks her suffering means that God is punishing her for some unknown sin....
CRITICAL AND EXEGETICAL NOTES.—SO THEY TWO. Types of the Jewish and Gentile Churches (_Macgowan_). Amicitia sit inter binos qui sunt veri, et bonos qui sunt pauci (_Trapp_). WENT. They were obliged to...
EXPOSITION RUTH 1:15 AND SHE SAID, BEHOLD, THY SISTER-IN-LAW IS GONE BACK TO HER PEOPLE, AND TO HER GODS: RETURN THOU AFTER THY SISTER-IN-LAW. The expression that stands in King James's version thus,...
Shall we turn now to the book of Ruth? As we were studying the book of Judges last week, we pointed out that at the end of chapter sixteen, the end of the story of Samson, you actually came to the end...
Genesis 17:1; Genesis 43:14; Hebrews 12:11; Isaiah 38:13; Job 11:7;...
Naomi — Which signifies pleasant, and chearful. Mara — Which signifies bitter or sorrowful....