Hypertext Webster Gateway: "Ruth"
From Easton's 1897 Bible Dictionary (easton)
Ruth
a friend, a Moabitess, the wife of Mahlon, whose father,
Elimelech, had settled in the land of Moab. On the death of
Elimelech and Mahlon, Naomi came with Ruth, her daughter-in-law,
who refused to leave her, to Bethlehem, the old home from which
Elimelech had migrated. There she had a rich relative, Boaz, to
whom Ruth was eventually married. She became the mother of Obed,
the grandfather of David. Thus Ruth, a Gentile, is among the
maternal progenitors of our Lord (Matt. 1:5). The story of "the
gleaner Ruth illustrates the friendly relations between the good
Boaz and his reapers, the Jewish land system, the method of
transferring property from one person to another, the working of
the Mosaic law for the relief of distressed and ruined families;
but, above all, handing down the unselfishness, the brave love,
the unshaken trustfulness of her who, though not of the chosen
race, was, like the Canaanitess Tamar (Gen. 38:29; Matt. 1:3)
and the Canaanitess Rahab (Matt. 1:5), privileged to become the
ancestress of David, and so of 'great David's greater Son'"
(Ruth 4:18-22).
From WordNet (r) 1.7 (wn)
Ruth
n 1: American professional baseball player famous for hitting
home runs (1895-1948) [syn: {Ruth}, {Babe Ruth}, {George
Herman Ruth}, {Sultan of Swat}]
2: the great-grandmother of King David whose story is told in
the Book of Ruth in the Old Testament [syn: {Ruth}]
3: a feeling of sympathy and sorrow for the misfortunes of
others; "the blind are too often objects of pity" [syn: {commiseration},
{pity}, {pathos}]
4: a book of the Old Testament that tells the story of Ruth who
was not an Israelite but who married and Israelite and who
stayed with her mother-in-law Naomi after her husband died
[syn: {Ruth}]
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