ruth

     

Ruth (Hebrew: רות rut) is a common female given name, from Ruth the Moabite in the Book of Ruth, possibly from the Hebrew for "companion". Ruth can also refer to:

Trivia about ruth

  • "So Boaz took" this woman "and she was his wife"; she was also the great-grandmother of David
  • "The Bambino" of baseball
  • Hebrew for "friend" or "companion", she was the companion & daughter-in-law of Naomi
  • Benedict or Westheimer
  • The Biblical book bearing her name begins by saying it took place "in the days when the judges ruled"
  • Naomi's daughter-in-law, she not only gleaned Boaz's wheat, she married him
  • One of Oprah's picks was Jane Hamilton's novel "The Book of" her; sounds just like an Old Testament book
  • Boaz gave this daughter-in-law of Naomi 6 measures of barley after she slept at his feet
  • The Old Testament book about this "virtuous woman" begins, "Now it came to pass in the day when the judges ruled"
  • In the last chapter of the book named for this widow, she's remarried to a man named Boaz
  • This eighth book of the Old Testament is named for a Moabite woman
  • Candy bar lovers might know this name of Grover's daughter, born October 3, 1891
  • She told her mother-in-law Naomi, "whither thou goest, I will go...thy people shall be my people"
  • Rendell,Warrick,Bader Ginsburg
  • In the book named for her, she gleans about an ephah, or 2/3 of a bushel of barley from Boaz' field
  • After her husband died, she & her mother-in-law Naomi moved to Bethlehem
  • According to a late addition to her book of the Bible, her son Obed was the grandfather of David
  • Boaz wanted her to glean his field & nobody else's
  • All trouble faded away for her as she wandered slowly through the Fields of Boaz
  • This woman from Moab has her own Old Testament book; it comes after Judges
  • Loyal daughter-in-law is betrothed in Bethlehem