Ad
related to: biblical description of a mother definition bibleucg.org has been visited by 10K+ users in the past month
Search results
Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
Ruth in Boaz's Field by Julius Schnorr von Carolsfeld. In the days when the judges were leading the tribes of Israel, there was a famine.Because of this crisis, Elimelech, a man from Bethlehem in Judah, moved to Moab with his wife, Naomi, and his two sons, Mahlon and Chilion.
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 and Ruth return to Bethlehem at the beginning of the barley harvest and, in order to support her mother-in-law and herself, Ruth goes to the fields to glean. As it happens, the field belongs to a man named Boaz, who is kind to her because he has heard of her loyalty to her mother-in-law. Ruth tells Naomi of Boaz's kindness, and Ruth ...
Mary, the mother of Jesus in Christianity, is known by many different titles (Blessed Mother, Virgin Mary, Mother of God, Our Lady, Holy Virgin, Madonna), epithets (Star of the Sea, Queen of Heaven, Cause of Our Joy), invocations (Panagia, Mother of Mercy, God-bearer Theotokos), and several names associated with places (Our Lady of Loreto, Our Lady of Fátima).
Luke 2:51: "And his mother treasured up all these things in her heart." Ezekiel 19:2: "Say: What a lioness among lionesses was your mother! She bedded down among the strong young lions and reared ...
John 19:26-27 "When Jesus saw his mother and the disciple whom he loved standing nearby, he said to his mother, 'Woman, here is your son.' Then he said to the disciple, 'Here is your mother.'
This song may be compared to the Magnificat, Mary's song of thanksgiving in the New Testament (Luke 1:46–55), but biblical commentator A. F. Kirkpatrick notes that "the Magnificat should be carefully compared with Hannah’s song, of which it is an echo rather than an imitation. The resemblance lies in thought and tone more than in actual ...
'ewe') [1] was a Biblical figure, the favorite of Jacob's two wives, and the mother of Joseph and Benjamin, two of the twelve progenitors of the tribes of Israel. Rachel's father was Laban. Her older sister was Leah, Jacob's first wife. Her aunt Rebecca was Jacob's mother. [2]
Ad
related to: biblical description of a mother definition bibleucg.org has been visited by 10K+ users in the past month