Chilion
And the name of the man [was] Elimelech, and the name of his
wife Naomi, and the name of his two sons Mahlon and Chilion,
Ephrathites of Bethlehemjudah. And they came into the country
of Moab, and continued there....
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And Mahlon and Chilion died also both of them; and the woman
was left of her two sons and her husband....
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Mahlon and Chilion were two brothers mentioned in the Book of
Ruth. They were the sons of Elimelech of the tribe of Joseph
and his wife Naomi. Together with their parents, they settled
in the land of Moab during the period of the Israelite Judges.
Mahlon married the Moabite woman Ruth while Chilion married
Orpah (according to the Midrash, Ruth...
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kil'-i-on (kilyon, "pining," "wasting away"): One of the two
sons of Elimelech and Naomi, "Mahlon and Chilion, Ephrathites
of Bethlehem-judah" (Ruth 1:2). With his mother and brother he
came into Moab and there both married Moabite women, Orpah
being the name of Chilion's wife and Ruth that of the wife of
Mahlon (4:9,10). Both died early and O...
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(pining, sickly), the son of Naomi and husband of Ruth. Ru
1:2-5; 4:9 (B.C. 1250.)...
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the pining one, the younger son of Elimelech and Naomi, and
husband of Orpah, Ruth's sister (Ruth 1:2; 4:9)....
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Orpah's husband, son of Elimelech and Naomi (Rth 1:2-5; Rth
4:9). An Ephrathite of Bethlehem Judah (formerly Ephrath,
Genesis 35:19)....
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