Naomi

The first 10 of 20 verses, in Bible order. Text from the Berean Standard Bible; verse numbers follow the KJV.

Ruth

• Ruth 1:2

  The man’s name was Elimelech, his wife’s name was Naomi, and the names of his two sons were Mahlon and Chilion. They were Ephrathites from Bethlehem in Judah, and they entered the land of Moab and settled there.

• Ruth 1:3

  Then Naomi’s husband Elimelech died, and she was left with her two sons,

• Ruth 1:8

  Then Naomi said to her two daughters-in-law, “Go back, each of you to your mother’s home. May the LORD show you loving devotion, as you have shown to your dead and to me.

• Ruth 1:11

  But Naomi replied, “Return home, my daughters. Why would you go with me? Are there still sons in my womb to become your husbands?

• Ruth 1:19

  So Naomi and Ruth traveled until they came to Bethlehem. When they entered Bethlehem, the whole city was stirred because of them, and the women of the city exclaimed, “Can this be Naomi?”

• Ruth 1:20

  “Do not call me Naomi,” she replied. “Call me Mara, because the Almighty has dealt quite bitterly with me.

• Ruth 1:21

  I went away full, but the LORD has brought me back empty. Why call me Naomi? After all, the LORD has testified against me, and the Almighty has afflicted me.”

• Ruth 1:22

  So Naomi returned from the land of Moab with her daughter-in-law Ruth the Moabitess. And they arrived in Bethlehem at the beginning of the barley harvest.

• Ruth 2:1

  Now Naomi had a relative on her husband’s side, a prominent man of noble character from the clan of Elimelech, whose name was Boaz.

• Ruth 2:2

  And Ruth the Moabitess said to Naomi, “Please let me go into the fields and glean heads of grain after someone in whose sight I may find favor.” “Go ahead, my daughter,” Naomi replied.

From Easton’s Bible Dictionary (1897), as attached to this record by Theographic. The entry is for the name and can describe more than one person who bore it. Easton wrote in 1897, and some of his views are now debated.