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Ruth 1

Ruth 1:20 KJV (With Strong’s)

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And she said
'amar (Hebrew #559)
to say (used with great latitude)
KJV usage: answer, appoint, avouch, bid, boast self, call, certify, challenge, charge, + (at the, give) command(-ment), commune, consider, declare, demand, X desire, determine, X expressly, X indeed, X intend, name, X plainly, promise, publish, report, require, say, speak (against, of), X still, X suppose, talk, tell, term, X that is, X think, use (speech), utter, X verily, X yet.
Pronounce: aw-mar'
Origin: a primitive root
unto them, Call
qara' (Hebrew #7121)
to call out to (i.e. properly, address by name, but used in a wide variety of applications)
KJV usage: bewray (self), that are bidden, call (for, forth, self, upon), cry (unto), (be) famous, guest, invite, mention, (give) name, preach, (make) proclaim(- ation), pronounce, publish, read, renowned, say.
Pronounce: kaw-raw'
Origin: a primitive root (rather identical with 7122 through the idea of accosting a person met)
me not ζNaomi
No`omiy (Hebrew #5281)
pleasant; Noomi, an Israelitess
KJV usage: Naomi.
Pronounce: no-om-ee'
Origin: from 5278
, call
qara' (Hebrew #7121)
to call out to (i.e. properly, address by name, but used in a wide variety of applications)
KJV usage: bewray (self), that are bidden, call (for, forth, self, upon), cry (unto), (be) famous, guest, invite, mention, (give) name, preach, (make) proclaim(- ation), pronounce, publish, read, renowned, say.
Pronounce: kaw-raw'
Origin: a primitive root (rather identical with 7122 through the idea of accosting a person met)
me ηMara
Mara' (Hebrew #4755)
bitter; Mara, a symbolic name of Naomi
KJV usage: Mara.
Pronounce: maw-raw'
Origin: for 4751 feminine
: for the Almighty
Shadday (Hebrew #7706)
the Almighty
KJV usage: Almighty.
Pronounce: shad-dah'-ee
Origin: from 7703
hath dealt very
m`od (Hebrew #3966)
properly, vehemence, i.e. (with or without preposition) vehemently; by implication, wholly, speedily, etc. (often with other words as an intensive or superlative; especially when repeated)
KJV usage: diligently, especially, exceeding(-ly), far, fast, good, great(-ly), X louder and louder, might(-ily, -y), (so) much, quickly, (so) sore, utterly, very (+ much, sore), well.
Pronounce: meh-ode'
Origin: from the same as 181
bitterly
marar (Hebrew #4843)
properly, to trickle (see 4752); but used only as a denominative from 4751; to be (causatively, make) bitter (literally or figuratively)
KJV usage: (be, be in, deal, have, make) bitter(-ly, - ness), be moved with choler, (be, have sorely, it) grieved(-eth), provoke, vex.
Pronounce: maw-rar'
Origin: a primitive root
with me.
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that is, pleasant.
η
that is, bitter

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Almighty,
Mara,
Naomi

Cross References

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Ministry on This Verse

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Naomi.
that is, Pleasant.
Mara.
that is, Bitter.
theAlmighty.
Gen. 17:1• 1And Abram was ninety-nine years old, when Jehovah appeared to Abram, and said to him, I am the Almighty *God: walk before my face, and be perfect. (Gen. 17:1)
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Gen. 43:14• 14And the Almighty *God give you mercy before the man, that he may send away your other brother and Benjamin! And I, if I be bereaved of children, am bereaved. (Gen. 43:14)
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Job 5:17• 17Behold, happy is the man whom +God correcteth; therefore despise not the chastening of the Almighty. (Job 5:17)
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Job 11:7• 7Canst thou by searching find out +God? canst thou find out the Almighty to perfection? (Job 11:7)
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Rev. 1:8• 8I am the Alpha and the Omega, saith the Lord God, he who is, and who was, and who is to come, the Almighty. (Rev. 1:8)
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Rev. 21:22• 22And I saw no temple in it; for the Lord God Almighty is its temple, and the Lamb. (Rev. 21:22)
dealt.
Job 6:4• 4For the arrows of the Almighty are within me, their poison drinketh up my spirit: the terrors of +God are arrayed against me. (Job 6:4)
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Job 19:6• 6Know now that +God hath overthrown me, and hath surrounded me with his net. (Job 19:6)
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Psa. 73:14• 14For all the day have I been plagued, and chastened every morning. (Psa. 73:14)
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Psa. 88:15• 15I am afflicted and expiring from my youth up; I suffer thy terrors, and I am distracted. (Psa. 88:15)
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Isa. 38:13• 13I kept still until the morning; … as a lion, so doth he break all my bones. From day to night thou wilt make an end of me. (Isa. 38:13)
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Lam. 3:1‑20• 1I am the man that hath seen affliction by the rod of his wrath.
 2Me hath he led, and brought into darkness, and not into light.
 3Surely against me hath he turned again and again his hand all the day.
 4My flesh and my skin hath he wasted away, he hath broken my bones.
 5He hath built against me, and encompassed me with gall and toil.
 6He hath made me to dwell in dark places as those that have been long dead.
 7He hath hedged me about that I cannot get out: he hath made my chain heavy.
 8Even when I cry and shout, he shutteth out my prayer.
 9He hath inclosed my ways with hewn stone, he hath made my paths crooked.
 10He is unto me as a bear lying in wait, a lion in secret places.
 11He hath turned aside my ways, and pulled me in pieces; he hath made me desolate.
 12He hath bent his bow, and set me as a mark for the arrow.
 13He hath caused the arrows of his quiver to enter into my reins.
 14I am become a derision to all my people; their song all the day.
 15He hath sated me with bitterness, he hath made me drunk with wormwood.
 16He hath also broken my teeth with gravel stones, he hath covered me with ashes.
 17And thou hast removed my soul far off from peace: I have forgotten prosperity.
 18And I said, My strength is perished, and my hope in Jehovah.
 19Remember thou mine affliction and my wandering, the wormwood and the gall.
 20My soul hath them constantly in remembrance, and is humbled in me. (Lam. 3:1‑20)
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Heb. 12:11• 11But no chastening at the time seems to be matter of joy, but of grief; but afterwards yields the peaceful fruit of righteousness to those exercised by it. (Heb. 12:11)
• Deprived of her husband and her two sons, too old again to belong to a husband, with no human hope of an heir, Naomi was a true picture of Israel: for her everything on the side of nature and the law was ended. (“Ruth 1” by H.L. Rossier)

J. N. Darby Translation

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And she said to them, Call me not Naomi—call me Maraa; for the Almighty has dealt very bitterly with me.

JND Translation Notes

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Meaning, "bitter," or "bitterness."