Study it in the app“Then she arose with her daughters-in-law and returned from the fields of Moab, for she had heard in the field of Moab that YHWH had attended to his people by giving them bread.”
Then sheוַ הִיאaroseתָּקָםwith her daughters-in-lawוְכַלֹּתֶיהָand returnedוַתָּשָׁבfrom the fieldsמִשְּׂדֵיof Moab,מוֹאָבforכִּיshe had heardשָׁמְעָהin the fieldבִּשְׂדֵהof MoabמוֹאָבthatכִּיYHWHיְהוָהhad attended toפָקַדhis peopleאֶת עַמּוֹby givingלָתֵתthemלָהֶםbread.לָחֶם
rise
To go from sitting or lying to standing, or to set out.
Where else “takam” appearsdaughter-in-law
The son's wife.
Where else “chalote” appearsreturn
To go back to a place.
Where else “tashav” appearsterritory
A region: "the fields of Moab".
Where else “sede” appearsMoab
See it on the mapWhere else “moav” appearshear
To hear a sound, or learn of something.
Where else “shama” appearsYHWH
The personal name of the God of Israel, written in Hebrew with four letters, Y-H-W-H, without vowels. Out of reverence Jews stopped pronouncing it and read "Adonai" (Lord), so many Bibles put "the LORD" or "Jehovah". This translation keeps the four letters. The name is related to the verb "to be" (Exodus 3:14-15). He is not a god other than Elohim: "YHWH Elohim" is the same Creator God, called by his name.
Where else “yehva” appearsattend to
To attend to someone; God comes to help.
Where else “fakad” appearsAmmi
Israel, YHWH's people: "my people".
Where else “am” appearsgive
To hand something over to someone: a gift, a payment, a charge or a land.
Where else “tet” appearsbread
Food made of kneaded, baked flour: the basis of each day's meal.
Where else “lachem” appearsMoab
Today: western Jordan, east of the Dead Sea
The land east of the Dead Sea, in present-day Jordan.
The Moabites came from a son of Lot (Gen 19:37). Ruth came from Moab (Ruth 1:1-4), and Moses died in its territory (Deut 34:5).
5Then both of them, Mahlon and Chilion, also died, and the woman was left without her two sons and without her husband.
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7So she went out from the place where she had been, and her two daughters-in-law with her, and they went on the road to return to the land of Judah.
