路得记 4:17

Chinese NCV (Simplified)

鄰近的婦女要給他起名字，說：“拿俄米生了孩子了。”就給他起名叫俄備得；這俄備得是耶西的父親，耶西是大衛的父親。

Parallel Translations

Chinese Union (Simplified)
邻 舍 的 妇 人 说 ： 拿 俄 米 得 孩 子 了 ！ 就 给 孩 子 起 名 叫 俄 备 得 。 这 俄 备 得 是 耶 西 的 父 ， 耶 西 是 大 卫 的 父 。

Contextual Overview

¹³ So Boaz took Ruth home as his wife and had sexual relations with her. The Lord let her become pregnant, and she gave birth to a son. ¹⁴ The women told Naomi, "Praise the Lord who gave you this grandson. May he become famous in Israel. ¹⁵ He will give you new life and will take care of you in your old age because of your daughter-in-law who loves you. She is better for you than seven sons, because she has given birth to your grandson." ¹⁶ Naomi took the boy, held him in her arms, and cared for him. ¹⁷ The neighbors gave the boy his name, saying, "This boy was born for Naomi." They named him Obed. Obed was the father of Jesse, and Jesse was the father of David. ¹⁸ This is the family history of Perez, the father of Hezron. ¹⁹ Hezron was the father of Ram, who was the father of Amminadab. ²⁰ Amminadab was the father of Nahshon, who was the father of Salmon. ²¹ Salmon was the father of Boaz, who was the father of Obed. ²² Obed was the father of Jesse, and Jesse was the father of David.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

the women: Luke 1:58-63

Obed: That is, הןץכוץשם, serving, or a servant, as Josephus interprets it. Ruth 4:15

Reciprocal: 1 Samuel 22:3 - the king 1 Chronicles 2:37 - Obed Psalms 78:68 - chose Isaiah 11:1 - of Jesse Luke 2:4 - unto

Cross-References

Genesis 4:4
Abel brought the best parts from some of the firstborn of his flock. The Lord accepted Abel and his gift,

Genesis 4:11
And now you will be cursed in your work with the ground, the same ground where your brother's blood fell and where your hands killed him.

Genesis 5:18
When Jared was 162 years old, he had a son named Enoch.

Genesis 5:22
After Methuselah was born, Enoch walked with God 300 years more and had other sons and daughters.

Genesis 11:4
Then they said to each other, "Let's build a city and a tower for ourselves, whose top will reach high into the sky. We will become famous. Then we will not be scattered over all the earth."

2 Samuel 18:18
When Absalom was alive, he had set up a pillar for himself in the King's Valley. He said, "I have no son to keep my name alive." So he named the pillar after himself, and it is called Absalom's Monument even today.

Psalms 49:11
Their graves will always be their homes. They will live there from now on, even though they named places after themselves.

Daniel 4:30
he said, "I have built this great Babylon as my royal home. I built it by my power to show my glory and my majesty."

Gill's Notes on the Bible

And the women her neighbours gave it a name,.... Josephus says q Naomi gave it, by the advice of her neighbours; very probably on the eighth day when he was circumcised, and the neighbours were invited on that occasion, at which time it seems it was usual to give names to children, see Luke 1:59. The Romans gave names to females on the eighth day, to the males on the ninth; hence the goddess Nundina had her name r; the Greeks generally on the tenth, sometimes on the seventh s: it was commonly the province of the father to give the name, and sometimes his neighbours and nearest friends were called, and in their presence the name was given, and by any of them he should choose in his stead t:

saying, there is a son born to Naomi; to her family, and even to herself, being born of her who had been wife to her eldest son; and this was to her as instead of him, and was as he to her; so Aben Ezra compares this with Exodus 2:10 and moreover, this child was born, as the neighbours presaged, for the great comfort and advantage of Naomi, to be her supporter and nourisher in her old age, Ruth 4:15

and they called his name Obed; which signifies "serving", as Josephus u rightly observes, though he does not always give the true sense of Hebrew words: this name was given, not in remembrance of the service his mother was obliged to, before marriage with Boaz; but rather on the account of the service that he would be of to Naomi, as they hoped and believed; though the reason of it, as given by the Targum, is not to be overlooked, which interprets it,

"who served the Lord of the world with a perfect heart;''

and so they might have some respect to his being hereafter a servant of the Lord:

he is the father of Jesse, and the father of David: so Jesse is called the Bethlehemite, 1 Samuel 16:1, being of the city of Bethlehem, of which city Boaz was when his son Obed was born, who was the father of Jesse; of whom was David king of Israel, and from whom sprung the Messiah, for whose sake this book was written, that his genealogy might clearly appear; and of which use it is made by the Evangelists Matthew; and Luke.

q Ut supra. (Antiqu. l. 5. c. 9. sect. 4.) r Alex. ab Alex. Genial. Dier. l. 2. c. 25. s Harpocration & Suidas in voce εβδομευομηνου, Scholiast. in Aristoph. Aves, p. 565. & Euripid. & Aristot. in ib. t Vid. Sperling. de Baptism. Ethnic. c. 14. & 15. u Ibid.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Obed - i. e. serving, with allusion to the service of love and duty which he would render to his grandmother Naomi.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse Ruth 4:17. The neighbours gave it a name — That is, they recommended a name suitable to the circumstances of the case; and the parents and grandmother adopted it.

They called his name Obed — עובד obed, serving, from עבד abad, he served. Why was this name given? Because he was to be the nourisher of her old age, Ruth 4:15. And so he must be by lying in her bosom, even if services in future life were wholly left out of the question. These neighbours of Naomi were skilful people. See on Ruth 4:16. Other meanings, of which I am not ignorant, have been derived from these words; those who prefer them have my consent.

He is the father of Jesse, the father of David. — And for the sake of this conclusion, to ascertain the line of David, and in the counsel of God to fix and ascertain the line of the Messiah was this instructive little book written.