Naomi

Naomi· Mara

Spouse

Elimelech

Children

Chilion· Mahlon

• מָרָא·Marameans “Marah, bitter; bitterness”
• נׇעֳמִי·Naomi

Includes 7 verses that refer to Naomi without naming them, as “he”, “she”, or the subject of a verb.

1. Ruth 1:2נׇעֳמִי · Naomi
   The man’s name was Elimelech, his wife’s name was Naomi, and the names of his two sons were Mahlon and Chilion. They were Ephrathites from Bethlehem in Judah, and they entered the land of Moab and settled there.
2. Ruth 1:3נׇעֳמִי · Naomi
   Then Naomi’s husband Elimelech died, and she was left with her two sons,
3. Ruth 1:8נׇעֳמִי · Naomi
   Then Naomi said to her two daughters-in-law, “Go back, each of you to your mother’s home. May the LORD show you loving devotion, as you have shown to your dead and to me.
4. Ruth 1:9Referred to, not named
   May the LORD enable each of you to find rest in the home of your new husband.” And she kissed them as they wept aloud
5. Ruth 1:10Referred to, not named
   …and said, “Surely we will return with you to your people.”
6. Ruth 1:11נׇעֳמִי · Naomi
   But Naomi replied, “Return home, my daughters. Why would you go with me? Are there still sons in my womb to become your husbands?
7. Ruth 1:12Referred to, not named
   Return home, my daughters. Go on, for I am too old to have another husband. Even if I thought there was hope for me to have a husband tonight and to bear sons,
8. Ruth 1:13Referred to, not named
   …would you wait for them to grow up? Would you refrain from having husbands? No, my daughters, it is much more bitter for me than for you, because the hand of the LORD has gone out against me.”
9. Ruth 1:19נׇעֳמִי · Naomi
   So Naomi and Ruth traveled until they came to Bethlehem. When they entered Bethlehem, the whole town was stirred because of them, and the women of the town exclaimed, “Can this be Naomi?”
10. Ruth 1:20מָרָא · Mara; נׇעֳמִי · Naomi
    “Do not call me Naomi,” she replied. “Call me Mara, because the Almighty has dealt quite bitterly with me.
11. Ruth 1:21נׇעֳמִי · Naomi
    I went away full, but the LORD has brought me back empty. Why call me Naomi? After all, the LORD has testified against me, and the Almighty has afflicted me.”
12. Ruth 1:22נׇעֳמִי · Naomi
    So Naomi returned from the land of Moab with her daughter-in-law Ruth the Moabitess. And they arrived in Bethlehem at the beginning of the barley harvest.
13. Ruth 2:1נׇעֳמִי · Naomi
    Now Naomi had a relative on her husband’s side, a prominent man of noble character from the clan of Elimelech, whose name was Boaz.
14. Ruth 2:2נׇעֳמִי · Naomi
    And Ruth the Moabitess said to Naomi, “Please let me go into the fields and glean heads of grain after someone in whose sight I may find favor.” “Go ahead, my daughter,” Naomi replied.
15. Ruth 2:6נׇעֳמִי · Naomi
    The foreman answered, “She is the Moabitess who returned with Naomi from the land of Moab.
16. Ruth 2:20נׇעֳמִי · Naomi
    Then Naomi said to her daughter-in-law, “May he be blessed by the LORD, who has not withdrawn His kindness from the living or the dead.” Naomi continued, “The man is a close relative. He is one of our kinsman-redeemers.”
17. Ruth 2:22נׇעֳמִי · Naomi
    And Naomi said to her daughter-in-law Ruth, “My daughter, it is good for you to work with his young women, so that nothing will happen to you in another field.”
18. Ruth 3:1נׇעֳמִי · Naomi
    One day Ruth’s mother-in-law Naomi said to her, “My daughter, should I not seek a resting place for you, that it may be well with you?
19. Ruth 3:2Referred to, not named
    Now is not Boaz, with whose servant girls you have been working, a relative of ours? In fact, tonight he is winnowing barley on the threshing floor.
20. Ruth 3:5Referred to, not named
    “I will do everything you say,” Ruth answered.
21. Ruth 4:3נׇעֳמִי · Naomi
    And he said to the kinsman-redeemer, “Naomi, who has returned from the land of Moab, is selling the piece of land that belonged to our brother Elimelech.
22. Ruth 4:5נׇעֳמִי · Naomi
    Then Boaz said, “On the day you buy the land from Naomi and also from Ruth the Moabitess, you must also acquire the widow of the deceased in order to raise up the name of the deceased on his inheritance.”
23. Ruth 4:9נׇעֳמִי · Naomi
    At this, Boaz said to the elders and all the people, “You are witnesses today that I am buying from Naomi all that belonged to Elimelech, Chilion, and Mahlon.
24. Ruth 4:14נׇעֳמִי · Naomi
    Then the women said to Naomi, “Blessed be the LORD, who has not left you this day without a kinsman-redeemer. May his name become famous in Israel.
25. Ruth 4:15Referred to, not named
    He will renew your life and sustain you in your old age. For your daughter-in-law, who loves you and is better to you than seven sons, has given him birth.”
26. Ruth 4:16נׇעֳמִי · Naomi
    And Naomi took the child, placed him on her lap, and became a nurse to him.
27. Ruth 4:17נׇעֳמִי · Naomi
    The neighbor women said, “A son has been born to Naomi,” and they named him Obed. He became the father of Jesse, the father of David.