And Naomiוַ נָעֳמִיsaidתֹּאמֶרtoאֶלRuth,רוּתher daughter-in-law,כַּלָּתָהּ“It is good,טוֹבmy daughter,בִּתִּיthatכִּיyou go outתֵצְאִיwithעִםhis young women,נַעֲרוֹתָיוand thatוְthey do notלֹאattackיִפְגְּעוּyouבָךְin anotherבְּ אַחֵרfield.”שָׂדֶה
Ruth 2:22
Study it in the app“And Naomi said to Ruth, her daughter-in-law, “It is good, my daughter, that you go out with his young women, and that they do not attack you in another field.””
With the Hebrew beneath
Ruth 2:22, word by word
- And Naomiנָעֳמִיnaomi
Naomi
Naomi, wife of Elimelech and mother-in-law of Ruth. The name means "pleasant" or "my delight."
Where else “naomi” appears- saidתֹּאמֶרtomer
say
To say with the mouth to someone what one thinks or wants, or to answer him.
Where else “tomer” appears- Ruthרוּתrut
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” appears- her daughter-in-lawכַּלָּתָkalata
daughter-in-law
The son's wife.
Where else “kalata” appears- “It is goodטוֹבtov
good
What is as it should be and gives delight: sound, useful, beautiful or valuable.
Where else “tov” appears- my daughterבִּתִּbiti
daughter
A girl or woman born of her parents, who belongs to her father's house.
Where else “biti” appears- you go outתֵצְאִיtetsi
go out
To go out of a place.
Where else “tetsi” appears- his young womenנַעֲרוֹתָיnaarotay
girl
An unmarried female of marrying age.
Where else “naarotay” appears- attackיִפְגְּעוּyifgu
fall upon
To fall on someone to wound or kill him.
Where else “yifgu” appears- in anotherאַחֵרacher
other
Other, another; next.
Where else “acher” appears- fieldשָׂדֶהsade
farmland
Land that is farmed.
Where else “sade” appears
The context
21And Ruth the Moabite said, “He also said to me, ‘Cling to the young men who are mine until they have finished all the harvest that is mine.’”
22 · This verse (above)
23So she clung to the young women of Boaz to glean until the end of the barley harvest and the wheat harvest. And she lived with her mother-in-law.