Text -- Ruth 2:14 (NET)

2:14 Later during the mealtime Boaz said to her, “Come here and have some food! Dip your bread in the vinegar!” So she sat down beside the harvesters. Then he handed her some roasted grain. She ate until she was full and saved the rest.

Commentary -- Verse Notes / Footnotes

NET Notes: Rut 2:14

¹ tn Heb “eat” (so KJV, NRSV).

² tn Heb “your portion”; NRSV “your morsel.”

³ tn The Hebrew verb צָבַט (tsavat) occurs only here in the OT. Cf. KJV, ASV “he reached her”; NASB “he served her”; NIV “he offered her”; NRSV “he heaped up for her.” For discussion of its meaning, including the etymological evidence, see BDB 840 s.v.; R. L. Hubbard, Jr., Ruth (NICOT), 174; and F. W. Bush, Ruth, Esther (WBC), 125-26.

⁴ tn Heb “and she ate and she was satisfied and she had some left over” (NASB similar).