Boaz
And Nahshon begat Salma, and Salma begat Boaz,...
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And Boaz begat Obed, and Obed begat Jesse,...
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And Boaz answered and said unto her, It hath fully been shewed
me, all that thou hast done unto thy mother in law since the
death of thine husband: and [how] thou hast left thy father
and thy mother, and the land of thy nativity, and art come
unto a people which thou knewest not heretofore....
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(pronounced /ˈboʊ.æz/; Modern Hebrew בועז Bốʿaz; Massoretical
Hebrew בֹּ֫עַז Bṓʿaz; Hebrew pronunciation: [ˈboːʕaz] ) is a major
figure in The Book of Ruth in the Bible. The term is found 24
times on the Scriptures, being two in Greek (in the form
"Booz").[1][2]
The root בעז, just used on the Bible in relation to "Boaz"
(see The Temple), perha...
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bo'-az (bo`az; Booz; "quickness" (?) Ruth 2 through 4; 1 Ch
2:11,12; Mt 1:5; Lk 3:32):
(1) A resident of Bethlehem and kinsman of Elimelech,
Naomi's husband. In Ruth 2:1 he is described as a gibbor
chayil, a phrase which can mean either "a mighty man of
valor" or else "a man of position and wealth." The latter is
probably the sense in which th...
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1. An ancestor of Jesus
Mt 1:5; Lu 3:32
History of
Ru 2; 3; 4
-2. One of the bronze pillars of the temple
1Ki 7:21; 2Ch 3:17...
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(fleetness).
1. A wealthy Bethlehemite kinsman to Elimelech the
husband of Naomi. He married Ruth, and redeemed the estates of
her deceased husband Mahlon. Ru 4:1 Boaz is mentioned in the
genealogy of Christ, Mt 1:5 (B.C. 1250, but there is great
difficulty in assigning his date.)
2. The name of one of Solomon's brazen pillars erected
in the...
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alacrity. (1.) The husband of Ruth, a wealthy Bethlehemite.
By
the "levirate law" the duty devolved on him of
marrying Ruth the
Moabitess (Ruth 4:1-13). He was a kinsman of Mahlon,
her first
husband.
(2.) The name given (for what reason is unknown) to
one of the
two (the other was called Jachin) brazen pillars which
Solomon
erected in th...
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Explained in margin 1 Kings 7:15-21, "in it (is) strength."
Others, fleetness.
1. Of Bethlehem: Elimelech's (Naomi's husband's)
kinsman. When the next of kin to Ruth, Naomi's daughter-in-
law, declined to do the part of redeemer (god) (See BLOOD)
of the inheritance of her deceased husband Mahlon (compare
Deuteronomy 25:5-10), Boaz did so by m...
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