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Ruth 4

Ruth 4:16 KJV (With Strong’s)

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And Naomi
No`omiy (Hebrew #5281)
pleasant; Noomi, an Israelitess
KJV usage: Naomi.
Pronounce: no-om-ee'
Origin: from 5278
took
laqach (Hebrew #3947)
to take (in the widest variety of applications)
KJV usage: accept, bring, buy, carry away, drawn, fetch, get, infold, X many, mingle, place, receive(-ing), reserve, seize, send for, take (away, -ing, up), use, win.
Pronounce: law-kakh'
Origin: a primitive root
the child
yeled (Hebrew #3206)
something born, i.e. a lad or offspring
KJV usage: boy, child, fruit, son, young man (one).
Pronounce: yeh'-led
Origin: from 3205
, and laid
shiyth (Hebrew #7896)
to place (in a very wide application)
KJV usage: apply, appoint, array, bring, consider, lay (up), let alone, X look, make, mark, put (on), + regard, set, shew, be stayed, X take.
Pronounce: sheeth
Origin: a primitive root
it in her bosom
cheyq (Hebrew #2436)
and chowq {khoke}; from an unused root, apparently meaning to inclose; the bosom (literally or figuratively)
KJV usage: bosom, bottom, lap, midst, within.
Pronounce: khake
Origin: or cheq {khake}
, and became nurse
'aman (Hebrew #539)
properly, to build up or support; to foster as a parent or nurse; figuratively to render (or be) firm or faithful, to trust or believe, to be permanent or quiet; morally to be true or certain; once (Isa. 30:21; interchangeable with 541) to go to the right hand
KJV usage: hence, assurance, believe, bring up, establish, + fail, be faithful (of long continuance, stedfast, sure, surely, trusty, verified), nurse, (-ing father), (put), trust, turn to the right.
Pronounce: aw-man'
Origin: a primitive root
unto it.

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Bosom,
Naomi,
Nurse

Cross References

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Ministry on This Verse

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Ruth 4:16• 16And Naomi took the child, and laid it in her bosom, and became nurse unto it. (Ruth 4:16)
• Naomi nurses Obed in her bosom; he comes forth, like the Messiah, from this barren people. (“Ruth 4” by H.L. Rossier)
• How the aged widow found joy and warmth as that fresh young life nestled near her heart. Ah, there is the nation's hope, and till He is taken to the people's heart they abide in widowed loneliness. (“Ruth 4” by S. Ridout)
• Returning to ourselves, here we see the one great remedy for all our wretchedness. Has the heart grown cold? Has our joy like Naomi's waxed faint? It is our privilege in reality, as it was hers in type, to clasp to our bosom Him who once a Babe, still in glory yields Himself to His people's embraces. We never grow warm save as He has His place in the heart. (“Ruth 4” by S. Ridout)

J. N. Darby Translation

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And Naomi took the child, and laid it in her bosom, and became nurse to it.

W. Kelly Translation

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And Naomi took the child, and laid it in her bosom, and became nurse unto it.