Naomi : Dictionary / Wörterbuch (BEOLINGUS, TU Chemnitz)

English Dictionary: Naomi	by the DICT Development Group
3 results for Naomi
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
Naomi n the mother-in-law of Ruth whose story is told in the Book of Ruth in the Old Testament Synonym(s): Naomi, Noemi
From Easton's 1897 Bible Dictionary [easton]:
Naomi the lovable; my delight, the wife of Elimelech, and mother of Mahlon and Chilion, and mother-in-law of Ruth (1:2, 20, 21; 2:1). Elimelech and his wife left the district of Bethlehem-Judah, and found a new home in the uplands of Moab. In course of time he died, as also his two sons Mahlon and Chilion, who had married women of Moab, and three widows were left mourning the loss of their husbands. Naomi longs to return now to her own land, to Bethlehem. One of her widowed daughters-in-law, Ruth, accompanies her, and is at length married to Boaz (q.v.).
From Hitchcock's Bible Names Dictionary (late 1800's) [hitchcock]:
Naomi, beautiful; agreeable