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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.
ζ
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• 1When Abram was ninety-nine years old, Jehovah appeared to Abram, and said unto him, I am the Almighty God; walk before me and be thou 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 my children], am bereaved. (Gen. 43:14)
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Job 5:17• 17Lo, happy the man whom God correcteth:{HR}Therefore despise not the chastening of the Almighty. (Job 5:17)
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Job 11:7• 7Canst thou, searching, find out God?{HR}Canst thou the Almighty find out to perfection? (Job 11:7)
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Rev. 1:8• 8I am the Alpha and the Omega, saith the Lord God, that is and that was and that 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 the Almighty is the temple of it, and the Lamb. (Rev. 21:22)
dealt.
Job 6:4• 4For the arrows of the Almighty are in me,{HR}The poison of which my spirit drinketh up.{HR}The terrors of God array themselves against me. (Job 6:4)
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Job 19:6• 6Know now that God hath wrested me,{HR}And compassed me round with his net. (Job 19:6)
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Psa. 73:14• 14And I was smitten all the day,{HR}And my rebuking [is] at the mornings. (Psa. 73:14)
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Psa. 88:15• 15Poor [am] I and expiring from youth;{HR}I have borne thy terror; I am distracted. (Psa. 88:15)
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Isa. 38:13• 13I kept still till morning: as a lion he breaketh all my bones; from day to night he will 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.
 2He hath led me and brought me into darkness, but not into light.
 3Surely against me is he turned; he turneth his hand against me all the day.
 4My flesh and my skin hath he made old; he hath broken my bones.
 5He hath builded against me, and compassed me with gall and travail.
 6He hath set me in dark places, as they that be dead of old.
 7He hath hedged me about that I cannot get out: he hath made my chain heavy.{HR}
 8Even when I cry and shout, he shutteth out my prayer.{HR}
 9He hath enclosed my ways with hewn stone, he hath made my paths crooked.
 10He was unto me as a bear lying in wait, and as 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 was a derision to all my people; and their song all the day.
 15He hath filled me with bitterness, he hath made me drunken 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 forgat prosperity.
 18And I said, My strength and my hope is perished from Jehovah.
 19Remembering mine affliction and my misery, the wormwood and the gall.
 20My soul hath them still in remembrance, and is humbled in me. (Lam. 3:1‑20)
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Heb. 12:11• 11Now no chastisement for the time seemeth to be of joy but of grief; yet afterward it yieldeth peaceable fruit of righteousness to those that have been exercised thereby. (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."

W. Kelly Translation

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

WK Verse Note

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(Note: Words in italics have been inserted from the J. N. Darby translation where the W. Kelly translation doesn’t exist.)