Ruth 4:14 - Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

The women said unto Naomi After Ruth's delivery. Which hath not left thee without a kinsman The words may be rendered, who hath not made, or suffered, thy kinsman to fail thee; that is, to refuse to perform his duty to thee and thine, as the other kinsman did. The Hebrew גאל, goel, which we translate kinsman, properly belonged to Boaz, and not to his son who was born; and yet the women seem to speak this with a reference to the child, which probably induced the Arabic translator to render it, hath not left thee without an heir. That his name may Hebrew, and his name shall be famous in Israel; On account of this noble and worthy action.