Ruth 2:2
King James Version
10 Jun 2026
“And Ruth the Moabitess said unto Naomi, Let me now go to the field, and glean ears of corn after him in whose sight I shall find grace. And she said unto her, Go, my daughter.”
חֵן
Grace, favour. Chen. Finding favour in someone's eyes. Unmerited goodwill. Noah found chen with God, not because of his perfection but because of God's sovereign grace.
נָא
please
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נָא
'I pray', 'now', or 'then'; added mostly to verbs (in the Imperative or Future), or to interjections, occasionally to an adverb or conjunction
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מָצָא
I will find
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מָצָא
To find, to discover, to encounter. Matsa. God is findable. He is not playing hide and seek. He actively reveals Himself to genuine seekers.
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בַּת
O daughter/ my
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בַּת
a daughter (used in the same wide sense as other terms of relationship, literally and figuratively)
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הָלַךְ
let me go
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הָלַךְ
to walk (in a great variety of applications, literally and figuratively)
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נׇעֳמִי
Naomi
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נׇעֳמִי
Noomi, an Israelitess
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רוּת
Ruth
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רוּת
Ruth, a Moabitess
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