Ruth 3:10-18

3:10

rewarded <01288> [Blessed.]

before <07223> [at the beginning.]

3:11

village <08179> [city. Heb. gate.]

3:12

there <03426> [there is.]

3:13

agrees ....... him ......... want .... so ... promise ......... marry .... here <01350 02654> [if he will.]

surely .... Lord <02416 03068> [the Lord liveth.]

3:14

know <03045> [Let it not.]

3:15

shawl <04304> [vail. or sheet, or apron.]

The word {mitpachath} has been variously rendered. The LXX. translate it [ ,] an apron, and Vulgate, {pallium,} a cloak. By the circumstances of the story, it must have been of a considerable size; and accordingly Dr. Shaw thinks it was no other than the {hyke,} the finer sort of which, such as are still worn by ladies and persons of distinction among the Arabs, he takes to answer to the [ ,] or robe, of the ancient Greeks.

measured out <04058> [he measured.]

sixty .... barley <08337 08184> [six measures.]

The quantity of this barley is uncertain. The Targum renders it, {shith sein,} "six {seahs."} A {seah} contained about two gallons and a half, six of which must have been a very heavy load for a woman, and so the Targumist thought, for he adds, "And she received strength from the Lord to carry it."

3:16

daughter <01323> [Who art thou.]

Or, as the Vulgate renders, {Quid egisti filia?} "What hast thou done, my daughter?"

3:18

Stay <03427> [Sit still.]