Boazוַ בֹּעַזansweredיַּעַןand saidוַיֹּאמֶרto her,לָהּ“It has been fully toldהֻגֵּד הֻגַּדto me,לִיallכֹּלthatאֲשֶׁרyou have doneעָשִׂיתforאֶתyour mother-in-lawחֲמוֹתֵךְafterאַחֲרֵיthe deathמוֹתof your husband,אִישֵׁךְand how you abandonedוַתַּעַזְבִיyour fatherאָּבִיךְand your motherוְאִמֵּךְand the landוְאֶרֶץof your birth,מוֹלַדְתֵּךְand cameוַתֵּלְכִיtoאֶלa peopleעַםthatאֲשֶׁרyou did notלֹאknowיָדַעַתְּbefore.תְּמוֹל שִׁלְשׁוֹם
Ruth 2:11
Study it in the app“Boaz 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.”
With the Hebrew beneath
Ruth 2:11, word by word
- Boazבֹּעַזboaz
Boaz
Boaz, of Bethlehem, a relative of Elimelech; he took Ruth as his wife and was the great-grandfather of King David (Ruth 4:21-22; Matthew 1:5). One of the two pillars of Solomon's temple bore the same name (1 Kings 7:21).
Where else “boaz” appears- answeredיַּעַןyaan
answer
To reply to what was said.
Where else “yaan” appears- and saidיֹּאמֶרyomer
say
To say with the mouth to someone what one thinks or wants, or to answer him.
Where else “yomer” appears- “It has been fully toldהֻגֵּדhuged
tell
To tell someone something he does not know or has not seen.
Where else “huged” appears- you have doneעָשִׂיתasit
do
To carry out an act or to deal with someone in a certain way, for good or ill.
Where else “asit” appears- your mother-in-lawחֲמוֹתֵchamote
mother-in-law
Mother-in-law: the mother of one's husband.
Where else “chamote” appears- the deathמוֹתmot
death
The end of life: when someone stops breathing and returns to dust.
Where else “mot” appears- of your husbandאִישֵׁishe
husband
Literally "her man": the one married to her.
Where else “ishe” appears- and how you abandonedתַּעַזְבִיtaazvi
forsake
To turn one's back on YHWH, someone or a place.
Where else “taazvi” appears- your fatherאָּבִיavi
father
The man who begets a child and heads his household.
Where else “avi” appears- and your motherאִמֵּime
mother
The woman who gives birth to and raises her children, and who is owed honor.
Where else “ime” appears- and the landאֶרֶץerets
land
A region or nation, above all Israel's.
Where else “erets” appears- of your birthמוֹלַדְתֵּmoladte
birth
The fact of coming into the world, or the place where someone was born.
Where else “moladte” appears- and cameתֵּלְכִיtelchi
go
To head for a place, to leave where one is in order to reach another.
Where else “telchi” appears- a peopleעַםam
people
A group of people united by family, land and customs: a nation.
Where else “am” appears- knowיָדַעַתְּyadaat
know
To know something, realize.
Where else “yadaat” appears- beforeתְּמוֹלtemol
formerly
What was already so in times past, up to now.
Where else “temol” appears- beforeשִׁלְשׁוֹםshilshom
day before yesterday
The day before yesterday; formerly. With "yesterday" it forms the idiom "as before".
Where else “shilshom” appears
The context
10Then 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?”
11 · This verse (above)
12May YHWH repay your work, and may your wages be full from YHWH, Elohim of Israel, under whose wings you have come to take refuge.”