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Ruth 3

Ruth 3:2 KJV (With Strong’s)

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And now is not Boaz
Bo`az (Hebrew #1162)
Boaz, the ancestor of David; also the name of a pillar in front of the temple
KJV usage: Boaz.
Pronounce: bo'-az
Origin: from an unused root of uncertain meaning
of our kindred
mowda`ath (Hebrew #4130)
acquaintance
KJV usage: kindred.
Pronounce: mo-dah'-ath
Origin: from 3045
, with whose maidens
na`arah (Hebrew #5291)
a girl (from infancy to adolescence)
KJV usage: damsel, maid(-en), young (woman).
Pronounce: nah-ar-aw'
Origin: feminine of 5288
thou wastb? Behold, he winnoweth
zarah (Hebrew #2219)
to toss about; by implication, to diffuse, winnow
KJV usage: cast away, compass, disperse, fan, scatter (away), spread, strew, winnow.
Pronounce: zaw-raw'
Origin: a primitive root (compare 2114)
barley
s`orah (Hebrew #8184)
and (masculine meaning the grain); also s or {seh-ore'}; or s-owr {seh-ore'}; from 8175 in the sense of roughness; barley (as villose)
KJV usage: barley.
Pronounce: seh-o-raw'
Origin: or snowrah {seh-o-raw'} (feminine meaning the plant)
to night
layil (Hebrew #3915)
also laylah {lah'- yel-aw}; from the same as 3883; properly, a twist (away of the light), i.e. night; figuratively, adversity
KJV usage: ((mid-))night (season).
Pronounce: lah'-yil
Origin: or (Isa. 21:11) leyl {lale}
in the threshingfloor
goren (Hebrew #1637)
a threshing- floor (as made even); by analogy, any open area
KJV usage: (barn, corn, threshing- )floor, (threshing-, void) place.
Pronounce: go'-ren
Origin: from an unused root meaning to smooth
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Ruth 2:8,23• 8And Boaz said to Ruth, Hearest thou not, my daughter? Go not to glean in another field, neither go from here, but keep here with my maidens.
 23So she kept with the maidens of Boaz to glean, until the end of the barley-harvest and of the wheat-harvest. And she dwelt with her mother-in-law. (Ruth 2:8,23)

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Cross References

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is not Boaz.
Ruth 2:20‑23• 20And Naomi said to her daughter-in-law, Blessed be he of Jehovah, who has not left off his kindness to the living and to the dead! And Naomi said to her, The man is near of kin to us, one of those who have the right of our redemption.
 21And Ruth the Moabitess said, He said to me also, Thou shalt keep with my young men until they have ended all my harvest.
 22And Naomi said to Ruth her daughter-in-law, It is good, my daughter, that thou go out with his maidens, that they meet thee not in any other field.
 23So she kept with the maidens of Boaz to glean, until the end of the barley-harvest and of the wheat-harvest. And she dwelt with her mother-in-law. (Ruth 2:20‑23)
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Deut. 25:5‑6• 5If brethren dwell together, and one of them die, and have no son, the wife of the dead shall not marry a stranger abroad: her husband's brother shall go in unto her, and take her to him as wife, and perform the duty of a husband's brother unto her.
 6And it shall be, that the firstborn that she beareth shall stand in the name of his brother who is dead, that his name be not blotted out from Israel. (Deut. 25:5‑6)
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Heb. 2:11‑14• 11For both he that sanctifies and those sanctified are all of one; for which cause he is not ashamed to call them brethren,
 12saying, I will declare thy name to my brethren; in the midst of the assembly will I sing thy praises.
 13And again, I will trust in him. And again, Behold, I and the children which God has given me.
 14Since therefore the children partake of blood and flesh, he also, in like manner, took part in the same, that through death he might annul him who has the might of death, that is, the devil; (Heb. 2:11‑14)
with whose.
Ruth 2:8,23• 8And Boaz said to Ruth, Hearest thou not, my daughter? Go not to glean in another field, neither go from here, but keep here with my maidens.
 23So she kept with the maidens of Boaz to glean, until the end of the barley-harvest and of the wheat-harvest. And she dwelt with her mother-in-law. (Ruth 2:8,23)
he winnoweth.It is probable that the winnowing of grain was effected by taking up a portion of the corn in a sieve, and letting it down slowly in the wind; thus the grain would, by its own weight, fall in one place, while the chaff, etc., would be carried a distance by the wind.
It is said here that this was done at night; probably what was threshed out in the day was winnowed in the evening, when the sea breeze set in, which was common in Palestine.

J. N. Darby Translation

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And now, is not Boaz of our kindred, with whose maidens thou wast? Behold, he is winnowing barley in the threshing-floor to-night.