Hypertext Webster Gateway: "Naomi"
From Easton's 1897 Bible Dictionary (easton)
Naomi
the lovable; my delight, the wife of Elimelech, and mother of
Mahlon and Chilion, and mother-in-law of Ruth (1:2, 20, 21;
2:1). Elimelech and his wife left the district of
Bethlehem-Judah, and found a new home in the uplands of Moab. In
course of time he died, as also his two sons Mahlon and Chilion,
who had married women of Moab, and three widows were left
mourning the loss of their husbands. Naomi longs to return now
to her own land, to Bethlehem. One of her widowed
daughters-in-law, Ruth, accompanies her, and is at length
married to Boaz (q.v.).
From WordNet (r) 1.7 (wn)
Naomi
n : the mother-in-law of Ruth whose story is told in the Book of
Ruth in the Old Testament [syn: {Naomi}, {Noemi}]
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