Ruth
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Ruth 1:1
וַיְהִ֗י בִּימֵי֙ שְׁפֹ֣ט הַשֹּׁפְטִ֔ים וַיְהִ֥י רָעָ֖ב בָּאָ֑רֶץ וַיֵּ֨לֶךְ אִ֜ישׁ מִבֵּ֧ית לֶ֣חֶם יְהוּדָ֗ה לָגוּר֙ בִּשְׂדֵ֣י מוֹאָ֔ב ה֥וּא וְאִשְׁתּ֖וֹ וּשְׁנֵ֥י בָנָֽיו
and to be · in/at days of · to judge · the judging · and to be · famine · in/at the land · and to walk · man · from Bethlehem · Bethlehem · Judah · to sojourn · in/at fields of · Moab · he · and woman his · and two · sons his
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Counted here from the morphology-tagged text of Ruth — nouns, verbs and adjectives only, so the article, conjunctions, prepositions and pronouns are left out. Each word opens its full lexicon entry and every verse it appears in.
- אָמַר H559 ʼâmar to say 54
- גָּאַל H1350 gâʼal to redeem 22
- הָיָה H1961 hâyâh to be 21
- אִישׁ H376 ʼîysh man 21
- נׇעֳמִי H5281 Noʻŏmîy Naomi 21
- בֹּ֫עַז H1162 Bôʻaz Boaz 20
- יהוה H3068 Yᵉhôvâh LORD 18
- בּוֹא H935 bôwʼ to enter 18
- שָׂדֶה H7704 sâdeh field 16
- יָלַךְ H3212 yâlak to walk 15
- שׁוּב H7725 shûwb to return 15
- אִשָּׁה H802 ʼishshâh woman 15
About this book
- 4 Chapters
- 85 Verses
- 1,306 Hebrew words
- 310 Distinct lemmas
Ruth is part of the Hebrew Old Testament and contains 4 chapters in the Westminster Leningrad Codex. Every chapter on this site is browseable verse by verse, with each verse showing the original Hebrew text alongside transliteration, Strong's number, concise gloss, and parsing (part of speech, stem, person, gender, number, state). Pick a chapter above to begin.
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