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Strong's #1162 - בֹּעַז
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- Boaz = "fleetness"
- ancestor of David, kinsman-redeemer to Ruth, daughter-in-law of Naomi
- name of the left of two brazen pillars, 18 cubits high, erected in the porch of Solomon´s temple
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1 kinsman of Naomi, who married Ruth Ruth 2:1,3,4,5,8,11,14,15,19,23; Ruth 3:2,7; Ruth 4:1 (twice in verse); Ruth 4:5; Ruth 4:8; Ruth 4:9; Ruth 4:13; also Ruth 4:21 (twice in verse); 1 Chronicles 2:11,12 (ᵐ5 Βοος, Βοοζ).
2 name of the left hand of two pillars set up before temple (compare also יָכִין below כון) 1 Kings 7:21 2 Chronicles 3:17; (meaning obscure; ᵑ0 apparently reference to 1, compare ᵑ7 2 Chronicles 3:17; Thes supposes name of architect or donor; Ew perhaps sons of Song of Solomon , etc.; read possibly בְּעֹז in strength, ᵐ5 2 Chronicles 3:17 ἰσχύς; Th thinks יכין בעז a sentence, one word being engraved on each pillar, he (God) establisheth in strength; against him, however, Ke Be; Öttli thinks an exclamation, in strength ! expressing satisfaction of architect; Klo proposes for בעז, בַּעַל עֹז (compare B 1 Kings 7:21 Βαλαζ)).
בֹּעַז (“fleetness”), pr.n. Boaz.
(1) a Bethlehemite, who married Ruth, Ruth 2:1, seq.
(2) of a pillar erected before the temple of Solomon, so called from either the architect, or if perhaps it were an ἀνάθημα, from the donor, 1 Kings 7:21; 2 Chronicles 3:17.
