Ruth 4:1
King James Version
10 Jun 2026
“Then went Boaz up to the gate, and sat him down there: and, behold, the kinsman of whom Boaz spake came by; unto whom he said, Ho, such a one! turn aside, sit down here. And he turned aside, and sat down.”
עָבַר
to cross over; used very widely of any transition (literal or figurative; transitive, intransitive, intensive, causative); specifically, to cover (in copulation)
עָלָה
he went up
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עָלָה
to ascend, intransitively (be high) or actively (mount); used in a great variety of senses, primary and secondary, literal and figurative
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יָשַׁב
sit/ !
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יָשַׁב
properly, to sit down (specifically as judge. in ambush, in quiet); by implication, to dwell, to remain; causatively, to settle, to marry
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דָבַר
he had spoken
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דָבַר
perhaps properly, to arrange; but used figuratively (of words), to speak; rarely (in a destructive sense) to subdue
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בֹּעַז
Boaz
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בֹּעַז
Boaz, the ancestor of David; also the name of a pillar in front of the temple
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שָׁם
there
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שָׁם
there (transferring to time) then; often thither, or thence
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פֹּה
here
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פֹּה
this place (French ici), i.e. here or hence
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פְּלֹנִי
a certain one
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פְּלֹנִי
such a one, i.e. a specified person
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סוּר
turn aside/ !
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סוּר
to turn off (literal or figurative)
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