Ruth 1:20

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 21:22

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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 th...
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,...
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.
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...
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 th...
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 ( Josh...
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 sa...
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...
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...
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 pres...
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 Almight...
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 a...
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. ] S...
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 s...
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...
Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

Naomi's Reception at Bethlehem. B. C. 1312....
Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

Naomi signifies pleasant or cheerful , or amiable . Mara signifies bitter or sorrowful .
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...
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...
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-fiel...
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 . E...
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 th...
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-...
The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

The Return of Naomi with Ruth
The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

And she said unto them, Call me not Naomi (lovely, gracious), call me Mara (bitter); for the Almighty hath dealt very bitterly with me, He had in...
Wesley's Explanatory Notes

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

²⁰ And she said unto them, Call me not Naomi,d call me Mara: for the Almighty hath dealt very bitterly with me.

Related Commentaries of Ruth 1:20

Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary

John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

John Trapp Complete Commentary

Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

L. M. Grant's Commentary on the Bible

Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

Sermon Bible Commentary

Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

The Biblical Illustrator

The Complete Pulpit Commentary

The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

Wesley's Explanatory Notes

Ruth 1:20