English Dictionary: RUTH | by the DICT Development Group |
5 results for RUTH | |
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]: | |
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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 (15Feb98) [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 |