Study it in the app“She said, ‘Let me glean, please, and I will gather among the sheaves behind the reapers.’ So she came and has been standing from the morning until now; she has sat in the house only a little.””
She said,וַתֹּאמֶר‘Let me glean,אֲלַקֳטָהplease,נָּאand I will gatherוְאָסַפְתִּיamong the sheavesבָעֳמָרִיםbehindאַחֲרֵיthe reapers.’הַקּוֹצְרִיםSo she cameוַתָּבוֹאand has been standingוַתַּעֲמוֹדfromמֵאָזthe morningהַבֹּקֶרuntilוְעַדnow;עַתָּהshe has satשִׁבְתָּהּin the houseהַבַּיִתonlya little.”מְעָט
say
To say with the mouth to someone what one thinks or wants, or to answer him.
Where else “tomer” appearsglean
To gather up grain left by the reapers.
Where else “alakota” appearsgather
To bring together what was scattered, like the harvest.
Where else “asafti” appearssheaf
A bundle of cut grain.
Where else “omarim” appearsreap
To cut the ripe grain; those who cut it.
Where else “kotsrim” appearscome
To come, arrive: "days are coming".
Where else “tavo” appearsstand
To be on one's feet, firm in a place, or to rise up to act.
Where else “taamod” appearsmorning
Morning, dawn.
Where else “boker” appearssit
To sit; or sit on the throne to reign.
Where else “shivta” appearshouse
A building to live in, or an enclosed place to keep something or someone.
Where else “bayit” appearsfew
A small amount: few in number, or a short time.
Where else “meat” appearsThe end of the verse is difficult in Hebrew; it can be understood that she has hardly rested.
6The young man who was set over the reapers answered and said, “She is a Moabite young woman, the one who returned with Naomi from the field of Moab.
7 · This verse (above)
8Then Boaz said to Ruth, “Have you not heard, my daughter? Do not go to glean in another field, and also do not pass on from here; and so cling to my young women.
