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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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_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...
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_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...
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_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)....
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1:20 Mara; (a-13) Meaning, 'bitter,' or 'bitterness.'...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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וַ תֹּ֣אמֶר אֲלֵיהֶ֔ן אַל
־תִּקְרֶ֥אנָה לִ֖י...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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_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)_...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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,...
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_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...
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_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...
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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...
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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...
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THE RETURN OF NAOMI WITH RUTH...
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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...
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NAOMI:
that is, pleasant
MARA:
That is, bitter...
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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...
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NAOMI signifies _pleasant_ or _cheerful_, or _amiable_. MARA signifies
_bitter_ or _sorrowful_....
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Ruth 1:20 said H559 (H8799) call H7121 (H8799) Naomi H5281 call H7121
(H8798) Mara H4755 Almighty...
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‘ 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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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_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...
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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.
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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....
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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...
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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,...
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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...
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Genesis 17:1; Genesis 43:14; Hebrews 12:11; Isaiah 38:13; Job 11:7;...
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Naomi — Which signifies pleasant, and chearful. Mara — Which
signifies bitter or sorrowful....