Ruth 1:3

And Elimelech Naomi’s husband died; and she was left, and her two sons.

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Word by word — the Hebrew

Word	Hebrew	Strong’s	Meaning
Elimelech	אֱלִימֶ֖לֶךְ 'e.li.Me.lekh	H458	Elimelek · proper noun, a man's name
Naomi’s	נָעֳמִ֑י no.'o.Mi	H5281	Noomi · proper noun, a woman's name
husband	אִ֣ישׁ 'ish	H376	a man as an individual or a male person · noun, common masculine singular construct
died	וַיָּ֥מָת vai.Ya.mot	H4191	to die (literally or figuratively) · conjunction + verb, qal sequential imperfect, 3rd person masculine singular
left	וַתִּשָּׁאֵ֥ר va.ti.sha.'Er	H7604	properly · conjunction + verb, niphal sequential imperfect, 3rd person feminine singular
two	וּשְׁנֵ֥י u.she.Nei	H8147	two · conjunction + noun, common both genders dual construct
sons	בָנֶֽיהָ va.Nei.ha	H1121	a son (as a builder of the family name) · noun, common masculine plural construct + pronominal suffix, 3rd person feminine singular

Strong's Exhaustive Concordance (James Strong, 1890/1894), public domain; digitized by Open Scriptures (CC BY-SA). KJV word tagging: eBible.org (public domain). Original-language text, parsing and brief lexicon: STEPBible.org data from Tyndale House, Cambridge (CC BY 4.0).

Cross-references

Psalms 34:19 Many are the afflictions of the righteous: but the LORD delivereth him out of them all.
2 Kings 4:1 Now there cried a certain woman of the wives of the sons of the prophets unto Elisha, saying, Thy servant my husband is dead; and thou knowe…
Hebrews 12:6 For whom the Lord loveth he chasteneth, and scourgeth every son whom he receiveth.
Hebrews 12:10-11 For they verily for a few days chastened us after their own pleasure; but he for our profit, that we might be partakers of his holiness.

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Commentary

Matthew Henry on Ruth 1:1-5

The first words give all the date we have of this story. It was in the days when the judges ruled (Rut 1:1), not in those disorderly times when there was no king in Israel; but under which of the judges these things happened we are not told, and the conjectures of the learned are very uncertain. It must have been towards the beginning of the judges' time, for Boaz, who married Ruth, was born of Rahab, who received the spies in Joshua's time. Some think it was in the days of Ehud, others of Deborah; the learned bishop Patrick inclines to think it was in the days of Gideon, because in his days only we read of a famine by the Midianites' invasion, Jdg 6:3, Jdg 6:4. While the judges were ruling,…

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Jamieson-Fausset-Brown on Ruth 1:2

Elimelech--signifies "My God is king." Naomi--"fair or pleasant"; and their two sons, Mahlon and Chilion, are supposed to be the same as Joash and Saraph (Ch1 4:22). Ephrathites--The ancient name of Beth-lehem was Ephrath (Gen 35:19; Gen 48:7), which was continued after the occupation of the land by the Hebrews, even down to the time of the prophet Micah (Mic 5:2). Beth-lehem-judah--so called to distinguish it from a town of the same name in Zebulun. The family, compelled to emigrate to Moab through pressure of a famine, settled for several years in that country. After the death of their father, the two sons married Moabite women. This was a violation of the Mosaic law (Deu 7:3; Deu 23…

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Adam Clarke on Ruth 1:3

Elimelech - died - Probably a short time after his arrival in Moab.

John Gill on Ruth 1:3

And Elimelech, Naomi's husband, died,.... According to Josephus (x), after he had dwelt in the land ten years, and had married his two sons to Moabitish women; but, as Alshech observes, the text shows that while he was living they were not married to them, but after his death; and it is said of them only that they dwelt there about ten years; so that it is most probable that their father died quickly after he came into the land of Moab: and she was left, and her two sons; in a strange land, she without a husband, and they without a father. (x) Ut supra. (Antiqu. l. 5. c. 9. sect. 1.)

Dictionary and topics

Chillon — (pining, sickly), the son of Naomi and husband of Ruth. (Ruth 1:2-5; 4:9) (B.C. 1250.)
Elimelech — God his king, a man of the tribe of Judah, of the family of the Hezronites, and kinsman of Boaz, who dwelt in Bethlehem in the days of the judges. In consequence of a great dearth he, with his wife…
Bereavement · .Naomi, of her husband — .Naomi, of her husband
Elimelech · With Naomi, his wife, and two — With Naomi, his wife, and two
Readings, Select · LIGHTS AND SHADOWS — LIGHTS AND SHADOWS
Widow · .Naomi — .Naomi

Dictionary: Easton's (1897) and Smith's (1863), public domain. Topics: Nave's Topical Bible (1896) and Torrey's Topical Textbook (1897), public domain. Both as parsed by NEUU (CC BY 4.0).

Ruth 1:3

Word by word — the Hebrew

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Commentary

Matthew Henry on Ruth 1:1-5

Jamieson-Fausset-Brown on Ruth 1:2

Adam Clarke on Ruth 1:3

John Gill on Ruth 1:3

Dictionary and topics

Ruth 1:3

Word by word — the Hebrew

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Commentary

Matthew Henry on Ruth 1:1-5

Jamieson-Fausset-Brown on Ruth 1:2

Adam Clarke on Ruth 1:3

John Gill on Ruth 1:3

Dictionary and topics

Keil & Delitzsch on Ruth 1:1-5

Tyndale Open Study Notes on Ruth 1:2

Rashi on Ruth 1:3