rut · Ruth

What it means

rut (רוּת) is a Hebrew word of the Bible that means “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."

How to say it

Approximate pronunciation. Vowels sound as in Spanish (a as in father, e as in bed, i as in machine, o as in note, u as in rule); the syllable in bold is stressed. The voice is your device's.

Related words

Words of the same family, by Strong’s numbering.

Where it appears

• Ruth 1:4

  They took for themselves Moabite wives; the name of the one was Orpah, and the name of the second Ruth. And they lived there about ten years.

• Ruth 1:14

  They lifted up their voice and wept again; and Orpah kissed her mother-in-law, but Ruth clung to her.

• Ruth 1:16

  But Ruth said, “Do not press me to abandon you, to turn back from following you; for where you go, I will go, and where you spend the night, I will spend the night. Your people is my people, and your Elohim is my Elohim.

• Ruth 1:22

  So Naomi returned, and Ruth the Moabite, her daughter-in-law, with her, who returned from the fields of Moab. And they came to Bethlehem at the beginning of the barley harvest.

• Ruth 2:2

  And Ruth the Moabite said to Naomi, “Let me go, please, to the field and glean among the ears of grain behind the one in whose eyes I find favor.” She said to her, “Go, my daughter.”

• Ruth 2:8

  Then 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.

• Ruth 2:21

  And 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.’”

• Ruth 2:22

  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.”

• Ruth 3:9

  He said, “Who are you?” And she said, “I am Ruth, your servant. Spread the edge of your cloak over your servant, for you are a kinsman-redeemer.”

• Ruth 4:5

  Then Boaz said, “On the day you acquire the field from the hand of Naomi and from Ruth the Moabite, the wife of the dead man, you acquire it to raise up the name of the dead man on his inheritance.”

• Ruth 4:10

  And also Ruth the Moabite, the wife of Mahlon, I have acquired for myself as wife, to raise up the name of the dead man on his inheritance, so that the name of the dead man may not be cut off from among his brothers and from the gate of his place. You are witnesses today.”

• Ruth 4:13

  So Boaz took Ruth, and she became his wife; he went in to her, and YHWH granted her conception, and she bore a son.