Study it in the app“But Ruth said, “Do not press me to abandon you, to turn back from following you; for where you go, I will go, and where you spend the night, I will spend the night. Your people is my people, and your Elohim is my Elohim.”
Ruth to Naomi: where you go, I will goFriendship
But Ruthוַ רוּתsaid,תֹּאמֶר“Do notאַלpressתִּפְגְּעִיmeבִיto abandon you,לְעָזְבֵךְto turn backלָשׁוּבfrom following you;מֵאַחֲרָיִךְforכִּיwhereאֶל אֲשֶׁרyou go,תֵּלְכִיI will go,אֵלֵךְand whereוּבַאֲשֶׁרyou spend the night,תָּלִינִיI will spend the night.אָלִיןYour peopleעַמֵּךְismy people,עַמִּיand your Elohimוֵאלֹהַיִךְismy Elohim.אֱלֹהָי
Ruth
Ruth, a Moabite woman, wife of Mahlon and later of Boaz; great-grandmother of King David (Ruth 4:17) and named among the ancestors of Jesus (Matthew 1:5). The name may mean "friend" or "companion."
Where else “rut” appearssay
To say with the mouth to someone what one thinks or wants, or to answer him.
Where else “tomer” appearsintercede
To plead for another before someone who can help.
Where else “tifgi” appearsforsake
To turn one's back on YHWH, someone or a place.
Where else “azve” appearsturn back
To go back to YHWH, or move away from him.
Where else “shuv” appearsgo
To head for a place, to leave where one is in order to reach another.
Where else “telchi” appearsspend the night
To stay in a place through the night, to sleep or to keep watch.
Where else “talini” appearspeople
A group of people united by family, land and customs: a nation.
Where else “ame” appearsElohim
The one true God, the Creator; the word is plural but means one.
Where else “lohayi” appears15And she said, “Look, your sister-in-law has returned to her people and to her gods; return after your sister-in-law.”
16 · This verse (above)
17Where you die, I will die, and there I will be buried. So may YHWH do to me, and so may he add, if anything but death separates me and you.”
