King James Version
“Would ye tarry for them till they were grown? would ye stay for them from having husbands? nay, my daughters; for it grieveth me much for your sakes that the hand of the LORD is gone out against me. tarry: Heb. hope it grieveth: Heb. I have much bitterness”
Ruth 1:13 · KJV
And Naomi said, Turn again, my daughters: why will ye go with me? are there yet any more sons in my womb, that they may be your husbands?
Turn again, my daughters, go your way; for I am too old to have an husband. If I should say, I have hope, if I should have an husband also to night, and should also bear sons; should have: or were with an husband
Would ye tarry for them till they were grown? would ye stay for them from having husbands? nay, my daughters; for it grieveth me much for your sakes that the hand of the LORD is gone out against me. tarry: Heb. hope it grieveth: Heb. I have much bitterness
And they lifted up their voice, and wept again: and Orpah kissed her mother in law; but Ruth clave unto her.
And she said, Behold, thy sister in law is gone back unto her people, and unto her gods: return thou after thy sister in law.
KJV Study — Public Domain
“Would ye tarry”
H7663to scrutinize; by implication (of watching) to expect (with hope and patience)
as far (or long, or much) as, whether of space (even unto) or time (during, while, until) or degree (equally with)
who, which, what, that; also (as an adverb and a conjunction) when, where, how, because, in order that, etc
“till they were grown”
H1431to be (causatively make) large (in various senses, as in body, mind, estate or honor, also in pride)
properly, a failure of, i.e., (used only as a negative particle, usually with a prepositional prefix) not, except, without, unless, besides, because n
to exist, i.e., be or become, come to pass (always emphatic, and not a mere copula or auxiliary)
“from having husbands”
H376a man as an individual or a male person; often used as an adjunct to a more definite term (and in such cases frequently not expressed in translation)
not (the qualified negation, used as a deprecative); once (job 24:25) as a noun, nothing
“nay my daughters”
H1323a daughter (used in the same wide sense as other terms of relationship, literally and figuratively)
(by implication) very widely used as a relative conjunction or adverb (as below); often largely modified by other particles annexed
“me much”
H3966properly, vehemence, i.e., (with or without preposition) vehemently; by implication, wholly, speedily, etc. (often with other words as an intensive or
(by implication) very widely used as a relative conjunction or adverb (as below); often largely modified by other particles annexed
“is gone out”
H3318to go (causatively, bring) out, in a great variety of applications, literally and figuratively, direct and proxim
“for your sakes that the hand”
H3027a hand (the open one [indicating power, means, direction, etc.], in distinction from h3709, the closed one); used (as noun, adverb, etc.) in a great v
“of the LORD”
H3068(the) self-existent or eternal; jeho-vah, jewish national name of god
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