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Ruth swearing to Naomi by Jan Victors, 1653 Naomi entreating Ruth and Orpah to return to the land of Moab, by William Blake. Naomi (Classically / ˈ n eɪ. oʊ m aɪ, n eɪ ˈ oʊ m aɪ /, [1] colloquially / n eɪ ˈ oʊ m i, ˈ n eɪ. oʊ m i /; [2] Hebrew: נָעֳמִי, Modern: Noʻomī, Tiberian: Nā‘ŏmī) is Ruth's mother-in-law in the Hebrew Bible in the Book of Ruth.
Naomi (nah-o-mi) (נָעֳמִי ) is a feminine name of Hebrew origin. In Hebrew, it means "pleasantness" and was originally pronounced with the stress on the i (the o is a hataf qamatz , marked with a shva to indicate that it is very short).
This name is not found in the Bible, and there is debate on if "the Kushite" refers to Zipporah herself or a second woman (Tharbis). Timnah (or Timna) – concubine of Eliphaz and mother of Amalek. Genesis [193] Tirzah – one of the daughters of Zelophehad. Numbers, Joshua [70] [108]
They were the sons of Elimelech of the tribe of Judah and his wife Naomi. Together with their parents, they settled in the land of Moab during the period of the Israelite Judges . On foreign soil, Mahlon married the Moabite convert [ 1 ] Ruth (Ruth 4:10) while Chilion married the Moabite convert Orpah .
Lockyer, Herbert, All the Divine Names and Titles in the Bible, Zondervan Publishing 1988, ISBN 0-310-28041-9; Tischler, Nancy M., All things in the Bible: an encyclopedia of the biblical world , Greenwood Publishing, Westport, Conn. : 2006 ISBN 0-313-33082-4
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Orpah (Hebrew: עָרְפָּה ʿOrpā, meaning "neck" or "fawn") is a woman mentioned in the Book of Ruth in the Hebrew Bible. She was from Moab and was the daughter-in-law of Naomi and wife of Chilion. [1] After the death of her husband, Orpah and her sister-in-law Ruth wished to go to Judea with Naomi. However, Naomi tried to persuade both ...