Ruth 1:20 Commentary, explanation, study verse by verse

“ And she said unto them, Call me not Naomi,d call me Mara: for the Almighty hath dealt very bitterly with me. ”

Ruth 1:20 - Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible

See the margin. Similar allusions to the meaning of names are seen in Genesis 27:36 ; Jeremiah 20:3 . The Almighty - שׁדי shadday (see the Genesis 17:1 note). The name “Almighty” is alm...
Ruth 1:20 - Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

Ruth and Naomi. Bethlehem ceased for a time to be what its name signified a house of bread. Under stress of famine Elimelech, with his wife Naomi, left his Judæ an home, and went to sojourn in the...
Ruth 1:20 - Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

them. Feminine. And the verb "call" is feminine, also, so that Naomi was addressing the women. the ALMIGHTY = Shaddai. See App-4.
Ruth 1:20 - Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

And she said unto them, Call me not Naomi, call me Mara: for the Almighty hath dealt very bitterly with me. Call me not Naomi - That is, beautiful or pleasant. Call me Mara - That is, bitter; one wh...
Ruth 1:20 - Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

And she said unto them, Call me not Naomi, call me Mara: for the Almighty hath dealt very bitterly with me. Mara - bitter, bitterness (see the note at Exodus 15:23 ).
Ruth 1:20 - Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

The Exile and the Return of Naomi 1. Beth-lehem-judah] two hours' journey S. of Jerusalem, is to be distinguished from Bethlehem in Zebulun ( Joshua 19:15 ). It was but a short distance from Moab,...
Ruth 1:20 - Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

Call me not Naomi, call me Mara. — Here we have one of the constant plays on words and names found in the Hebrew Bible. Naomi, we have already said, means pleasant, or, perhaps, strictly, my p...
Ruth 1:20 - Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

IN THE FIELD OF BOAZ Ruth 1:19-22 ; Ruth 2:1-23 WEARY and footsore the two travellers reached Bethlehem at length, and "all the city was moved about them." Though ten years had elapsed, many y...
Ruth 1:20 - Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

Love's Steadfast Choice Ruth 1:15-22 This young woman was to be an ancestor of David and in the line of our Lord's descent. Moabite though she was by birth, Ruth was designated for the high hon...
Ruth 1:20 - G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

The Book of Ruth stands in striking contrast to the Book of Judges and yet is closely connected with it. In Judges the national outlook has been presented and so dark has it been as to create the imp...
Ruth 1:20 - Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary

I went out full, and the LORD hath brought me home again empty: why then call ye me Naomi, seeing the LORD hath testified against me, and the Almighty hath afflicted me? Such language is suitable to...
Ruth 1:20 - John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

And she said, call me not Naomi, call me Mara ,.... The one signifying "prosperity", according to Josephus m, and the other "grief"; but he is not always correct in his interpretation of Hebrew word...
Ruth 1:20 - John Trapp Complete Commentary

And she said unto them, Call me not Naomi, call me Mara: for the Almighty hath dealt very bitterly with me. Ver. 20. And she said unto them. ] She put her mouth in the dust, and spake in a low l...
Ruth 1:20 - Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

Is this Naomi? Is this she that formerly lived in so much plenty and honour? How marvellously is her condition changed! Call me not Naomi Which signifies pleasant , and cheerful. Call me Mara...
Ruth 1:20 - L. M. Grant's Commentary on the Bible

DEPARTURE BECAUSE OF FAMINE (vv. 1-5) A famine was in the land of Israel. Why? Because the literal famine was to draw attention to the spiritual famine that came before it, a famine for hearing...
Ruth 1:20 - Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

Naomi's Reception at Bethlehem. B. C. 1312. 19 So they two went until they came to Bet...
Ruth 1:20 - Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

Naomi signifies pleasant or cheerful , or amiable . Mara signifies bitter or sorrowful .
Ruth 1:20 - Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

‘ And she said to them, “Do not call me Naomi, call me Mara, for the Almighty (Shaddai) has dealt very bitterly with me.” But as Naomi heard her name being spoken it brought home to her the signi...
Ruth 1:20 - Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

CRITICAL AND EXEGETICAL NOTES.— So they two. Types of the Jewish and Gentile Churches ( Macgowan ). Amicitia sit inter binos qui sunt veri, et bonos qui sunt pauci ( Trapp ). Went. They were oblig...
Ruth 1:20 - Sermon Bible Commentary

Ruth 1-4 The Book of Ruth is a love-story told in four Chapter s. It gives us a glimpse of everyday life in Bethlehem; in home and in harvest-field, in its general gossip and its law-suits, more t...
Ruth 1:20 - Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

Ruth 1:1 . When the judges ruled, about a hundred years before the birth of David. Famines were mostly occasioned by want of rain. Ruth 1:2 . Ephrathites; not Ephraimites, but of Ephrath, the...
Ruth 1:20 - The Biblical Illustrator

Call me not Naomi, call me Mara. Naomi I. Incidents in her life. This world is to all, in some measure, “a vale of tears.” The pilgrimage of the true Christian is not through verdant plains and...
Ruth 1:20 - The Complete Pulpit Commentary

EXPOSITION Ruth 1:15 And she said, Behold, thy sister-in-law is gone back to her people, and to her gods: return thou after thy sister-in-law. The expression that stands in King James's v...
Ruth 1:20 - The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

The Return of Naomi with Ruth
Ruth 1:20 - Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Genesis 17:1 ; Genesis 43:14 ; Hebrews 12:11 ; Isaiah 38:13 ; Job 11:7 ; Job 19:6 ; Job 5:17 ; Job 6:4 ; Lamentations 3:1-20 ; Psalms 73:14 ; Psalms 88:15 ; Revelation 1:8 ; Revelation 2...
Ruth 1:20 - Wesley's Explanatory Notes

Naomi — Which signifies pleasant, and chearful. Mara — Which signifies bitter or sorrowful.

Ruth 1:20 - Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Ruth 1:20 - Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

Ruth 1:20 - Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

Ruth 1:20 - Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

Ruth 1:20 - Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

Ruth 1:20 - Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

Ruth 1:20 - Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

Ruth 1:20 - Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

Ruth 1:20 - Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

Ruth 1:20 - G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

Ruth 1:20 - Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary

Ruth 1:20 - John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

Ruth 1:20 - John Trapp Complete Commentary

Ruth 1:20 - Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

Ruth 1:20 - L. M. Grant's Commentary on the Bible

Ruth 1:20 - Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

Ruth 1:20 - Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

Ruth 1:20 - Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

Ruth 1:20 - Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

Ruth 1:20 - Sermon Bible Commentary

Ruth 1:20 - Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

Ruth 1:20 - The Biblical Illustrator

Ruth 1:20 - The Complete Pulpit Commentary

Ruth 1:20 - The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

Ruth 1:20 - Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Ruth 1:20 - Wesley's Explanatory Notes