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ruth

 

  5  definitions  found 
 
  From  WordNet  r  1.6  [wn]: 
 
  Ruth 
  n  1:  (1895-1948)  US  professional  baseball  player  famous  for 
  hitting  home  runs  [syn:  {Ruth},  {Babe  Ruth},  {George 
  Herman  Ruth},  {Sultan  of  Swat}] 
  2:  the  great-grandmother  of  King  David  whose  story  is  told  in 
  the  Book  of  Ruth  in  the  Old  Testament  [syn:  {Ruth}] 
  3:  a  feeling  of  sympathy  and  sorrow  for  the  misfortunes  of 
  others  "the  blind  are  too  often  objects  of  pity"  [syn:  {commiseration}, 
  {pity},  {pathos}] 
  4:  a  book  of  the  Old  Testament  that  tells  the  story  of  Ruth  who 
  was  not  an  Israelite  but  who  married  and  Israelite  and  who 
  stayed  with  her  mother-in-law  Naomi  after  her  husband  died 
  [syn:  {Ruth}] 
 
  From  U.S.  Gazetteer  (1990)  [gazetteer]: 
 
  Ruth,  CA 
  Zip  code(s):  95526 
  Ruth,  MI 
  Zip  code(s):  48470 
  Ruth,  MS 
  Zip  code(s):  39662 
  Ruth,  NC  (town,  FIPS  58420) 
  Location:  35.38373  N,  81.94541  W 
  Population  (1990):  366  (147  housing  units) 
  Area:  1.1  sq  km  (land),  0.0  sq  km  (water) 
 
  From  The  Free  On-line  Dictionary  of  Computing  (13  Mar  01)  [foldoc]: 
 
  RUTH 
 
  D.A.  Harrison  at  Newcastle  University.  Real-time  language 
  based  on  LispKit.  Uses  timestamps  and  real-time  clocks. 
 
  ["RUTH:  A  Functional  Language  for  Real-Time  Programming", 
  D.  Harrison  in  PARLE:  Parallel  Architectures  and  Languages 
  Europe,  LNCS  259,  Springer  1987,  pp.297-314]. 
 
 
 
  From  Easton's  1897  Bible  Dictionary  [easton]: 
 
  Ruth 
  a  friend,  a  Moabitess,  the  wife  of  Mahlon,  whose  father, 
  Elimelech,  had  settled  in  the  land  of  Moab.  On  the  death  of 
  Elimelech  and  Mahlon,  Naomi  came  with  Ruth,  her  daughter-in-law, 
  who  refused  to  leave  her  to  Bethlehem,  the  old  home  from  which 
  Elimelech  had  migrated.  There  she  had  a  rich  relative,  Boaz,  to 
  whom  Ruth  was  eventually  married.  She  became  the  mother  of  Obed, 
  the  grandfather  of  David.  Thus  Ruth,  a  Gentile,  is  among  the 
  maternal  progenitors  of  our  Lord  (Matt.  1:5).  The  story  of  "the 
  gleaner  Ruth  illustrates  the  friendly  relations  between  the  good 
  Boaz  and  his  reapers,  the  Jewish  land  system,  the  method  of 
  transferring  property  from  one  person  to  another,  the  working  of 
  the  Mosaic  law  for  the  relief  of  distressed  and  ruined  families; 
  but  above  all  handing  down  the  unselfishness,  the  brave  love, 
  the  unshaken  trustfulness  of  her  who  though  not  of  the  chosen 
  race,  was  like  the  Canaanitess  Tamar  (Gen.  38:29;  Matt.  1:3) 
  and  the  Canaanitess  Rahab  (Matt.  1:5),  privileged  to  become  the 
  ancestress  of  David,  and  so  of  'great  David's  greater  Son'" 
  (Ruth  4:18-22). 
 
 
  From  Hitchcock's  Bible  Names  Dictionary  (late  1800's)  [hitchcock]: 
 
  Ruth,  drunk;  satisfied




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