Study it in the app“Then she fell on her face and bowed down to the ground and said to him, “Why have I found favor in your eyes that you should take notice of me, when I am a foreigner?””
Then she fellוַתִּפֹּלonעַלher faceפָּנֶיהָand bowed downוַתִּשְׁתַּחוּto the groundאָרְצָהand saidוַתֹּאמֶרto him,אֵלָיו“Whyמַדּוּעַhave I foundמָצָאתִיfavorחֵןin your eyesבְּעֵינֶיךָthat you should take notice ofלְהַכִּירֵme,נִיwhen Iוְאָּנֹכִיama foreigner?”נָכְרִיָּה
fall prostrate
To fall facedown, or embrace someone.
Where else “tipol” appearsface
The front of the head, of someone or of God.
Where else “pane” appearsbow down
To bow to the ground before someone in respect.
Where else “tishtachu” appearsground
What is underfoot: bowing down to touch it.
Where else “artsa” appearssay
To say with the mouth to someone what one thinks or wants, or to answer him.
Where else “tomer” appearswhy?
Why? For what reason?
Where else “madua” appearsfind favor
To find favor: to be well regarded by someone with power to give.
Where else “matsati” appearsfavor
Someone's goodwill toward another: looking on them kindly.
Where else “chen” appearssight
"In the eyes of" someone: in their view.
Where else “ene” appearsrecognize
To realize who someone is, or notice them.
Where else “hakire” appearsforeign, stranger
Foreign, strange; a foreigner, someone outside the family.
Where else “nachriya” appearsIn Hebrew “take notice of” and “foreigner” sound alike: it is a wordplay.
9Let your eyes be on the field that they reap, and go after them. Have I not commanded the young men not to touch you? And when you are thirsty, go to the vessels and drink from what the young men draw.”
10 · This verse (above)
11Boaz answered and said to her, “It has been fully told to me, all that you have done for your mother-in-law after the death of your husband, and how you abandoned your father and your mother and the land of your birth, and came to a people that you did not know before.
