Who was Naomi
Naomi (Hebrew נָעֳמִי, “sweet”) is a biblical character from the Old Testament, from the Hebrew word noam and the pronoun suffix.
Ruth’s mother-in-law, Naomi, heartbroken, decides to return to Judah. Two widowed granddaughters set out with him on the return journey, but Naomi advised them to return and marry in her homeland, because she herself had become “too old to belong to a man” and she could bear no more children. her whom she could marry. Orpah walked away from her, but Ruth stayed with Naomi for love of her and hers, her God, her Lord.
When Naomi arrived in Bethlehem, she said to the women greeting her: “Don’t call me Naomi, but Mara ‘bitter’, because the Almighty dealt bitterly with me.”
As it was a barley harvest, Ruth kindly went to find support for her and Naomi, luckily she went to work in Boaz’s field. When she told Naomi what field she was working in, she felt the hand of the Lord, because Boaz was a close relative of Elimelech and therefore one of the redeemers. Naomi encouraged Ruth to present this fact to Boaz. She quickly responded and followed the normal legal procedure to buy back Elimelech’s property from Naomi. So, according to the law of the levirate, or marriage between sisters, Ruth became Naomi’s wife to Boaz. When a son was born to them, the neighbors called him Obed and said: “A son was born to Naomi.” Thus Obed became the legitimate heir to the house of Elimelech in Judah.
They are the ancestors of María José’s husband.
What is the name of Naomi’s daughter-in-law?
Ruth, who was David’s ancestor and Elimelech’s wife, was an Ephratean, that is, a native of ancient Ephrata, which was later called Bethlehem of Judah. judges Because of a great famine, she moved to Moab with his wife and his two sons, Mahlon and Chilion. Elimelech died there. The sons later married Orpah and Ruth, Moabites, and some ten years later they both died childless.