Ruth 4:1
Old Testament • 18 words with Strong's data
"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."
Word-by-Word Analysis
יָלַךְ
yâlak
to walk (literally or figuratively); causatively, to carry (in various senses)
בֹּעַז
Bôʻaz
Boaz, the ancestor of David; also the name of a pillar in front of the temple
יָשַׁב
yâshab
properly, to sit down (specifically as judge. in ambush, in quiet); by implication, to dwell, to remain; causatively, to settle, to marry
רָאָה
râʼâh
to see, literally or figuratively (in numerous applications, direct and implied, transitive, intransitive and causative)
גָּאַל
gâʼal
to be the next of kin (and as such to buy back a relative's property, marry his widow, etc.)
בֹּעַז
Bôʻaz
Boaz, the ancestor of David; also the name of a pillar in front of the temple
דָבַר
dâbar
perhaps properly, to arrange; but used figuratively (of words), to speak; rarely (in a destructive sense) to subdue
בּוֹא
bôwʼ
to go or come (in a wide variety of applications)
אָמַר
ʼâmar
to say (used with great latitude)
ὁ
ho
the (sometimes to be supplied, at others omitted, in English idiom)
אֶחָד
ʼechâd
properly, united, i.e. one; or (as an ordinal) first
שׁוּב
shûwb
to turn back (hence, away) transitively or intransitively, literally or figuratively (not necessarily with the idea of return to the starting point); ...
יָשַׁב
yâshab
properly, to sit down (specifically as judge. in ambush, in quiet); by implication, to dwell, to remain; causatively, to settle, to marry
הָפַךְ
hâphak
to turn about or over; by implication, to change, overturn, return, pervert
יָשַׁב
yâshab
properly, to sit down (specifically as judge. in ambush, in quiet); by implication, to dwell, to remain; causatively, to settle, to marry
Key Terms in This Verse
גָּאַל gâʼal
to be the next of kin (and as such to buy back a relative's property, marry his widow, etc.)
Study H1350 →בֹּעַז Bôʻaz
Boaz, the ancestor of David; also the name of a pillar in front of the temple
Study H1162 →בֹּעַז Bôʻaz
Boaz, the ancestor of David; also the name of a pillar in front of the temple
Study H1162 →יָשַׁב yâshab
properly, to sit down (specifically as judge. in ambush, in quiet); by implication, to dwell, to remain; causatively, to settle, to marry
Study H3427 →יָשַׁב yâshab
properly, to sit down (specifically as judge. in ambush, in quiet); by implication, to dwell, to remain; causatively, to settle, to marry
Study H3427 →יָשַׁב yâshab
properly, to sit down (specifically as judge. in ambush, in quiet); by implication, to dwell, to remain; causatively, to settle, to marry
Study H3427 →Cross References
And if the man like not to take his brother’s wife, then let his brother’s wife go up to the gate unto the elders, and say, My husband’s brother refuseth to raise up unto his brother a name in Israel,...
And now it is true that I am thy near kinsman: howbeit there is a kinsman nearer than I.
Judges and officers shalt thou make thee in all thy gates, which the LORD thy God giveth thee, throughout thy tribes: and they shall judge the people with just judgment.
Then shall his father and his mother lay hold on him, and bring him out unto the elders of his city, and unto the gate of his place;
Hate the evil, and love the good, and establish judgment in the gate: it may be that the LORD God of hosts will be gracious unto the remnant of Joseph.
If I have lifted up my hand against the fatherless, when I saw my help in the gate:
When I went out to the gate through the city, when I prepared my seat in the street!
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