Rut 3:9

Bahasa Indonesia Sehari-hari

Bertanyalah ia: "Siapakah engkau ini?" Jawabnya: "Aku Rut, hambamu: kembangkanlah kiranya sayapmu melindungi hambamu ini, sebab engkaulah seorang kaum yang wajib menebus kami."

Parallel Translations

Alkitab Terjemahan Baru
Bertanyalah ia: "Siapakah engkau ini?" Jawabnya: "Aku Rut, hambamu: kembangkanlah kiranya sayapmu melindungi hambamu ini, sebab engkaulah seorang kaum yang wajib menebus kami."

Alkitab Terjemahan Lama
Maka katanya: Siapakah engkau? Maka sahutnya: Sahaya ini Rut, yaitu hamba tuan; kembangkan apalah sayap tuan atas sahaya, karena tuan juga penebus.

Contextual Overview

⁶ And she went downe vnto the floore, and dyd according to al that her mother in lawe bad her. ⁷ And when Booz had eaten and drunken, & cheared his heart, he went to lye downe at the ende of the heape of corne: and she came softly, and lift vp the clothes of his feete, and layed her downe. ⁸ And at midnight, the man was afraide, and caught holde: and beholde, a woman lay at his feete. ⁹ And he sayde: What art thou? She aunswered, I am Ruth thyne handmayde: Spreade the wing of thy [garment] ouer thyne handmayde, for thou art the kinsman. ¹⁰ He sayde: Blessed be thou in the Lord my daughter, for thou hast shewed more goodnesse in the latter ende, then at the beginning, inasmuche as thou folowedst not young men, whether they were poore or riche. ¹¹ And nowe my daughter feare not, I will do to the all that thou requirest: for all the citie of my people doth know, that thou art a woman of vertue. ¹² And it is true that I am of thy next kinne, howbeit there is one nier then I. ¹³ Tary this night, and when morning is come, if he wil perfourme the part of a kinsman vnto thee, it is good, let him do the kinsmans part: but if he wyl not do the kinsmans part, then wyl I do the duetie of a kinsman, as the Lorde liueth: sleepe vntil the morning.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

Ruth: Ruth 2:10-13, 1 Samuel 25:41, Luke 14:11

spread therefore: Hebrew "spread thy wing;" the emblem of protection; and a metaphor taken from the young of fowls, which run under the wings of their mother from birds of prey. Even to the present day, when a Jew marries a woman, he throws the skirts of his talith over her, to signify that he has taken her under his protection. Ezekiel 16:8

a near kinsman: or, one that has right to redeem, Ruth 3:12, Ruth 2:20

Reciprocal: Leviticus 25:25 - General Deuteronomy 22:30 - discover Deuteronomy 25:5 - husband's brother

Cross-References

Genesis 3:12
And Adam said: The woman whom thou gauest [to be] with me, she gaue me of the tree, and I dyd eate.

Genesis 3:13
And the Lord God sayd vnto the woman: Why hast thou done this? And the woman sayde: the serpent begyled me, and I dyd eate.

Genesis 3:17
Unto Adam he sayde: Because thou hast hearkened vnto the voyce of thy wyfe, and hast eaten of the tree concernyng the whiche I commaunded thee, saying, thou shalt not eate of it, cursed is the grounde for thy sake, in sorowe shalt thou eate of it all the dayes of thy lyfe.

Genesis 3:19
In the sweatte of thy face shalt thou eate thy breade, tyll thou be turned agayne into the ground, for out of it wast thou taken: For dust thou art, and into dust shalt thou be turned agayne.

Genesis 3:20
And Adam called his wyfes name Heua, because she was the mother of all lyuyng.

Genesis 3:21
Unto Adam also and to his wyfe dyd the Lorde God make garments of skynnes, and he put them on.

Genesis 4:9
And the Lorde said vnto Cain: where is Habel thy brother? Which sayde I wote not: Am I my brothers keper?

Genesis 11:5
But the Lorde came downe to see the citie and towre whiche the chyldren of men buylded.

Genesis 16:8
And he said: Hagar Sarais mayde, whence camest thou? and whither wylt thou go? She sayde: I flee fro the face of my mistresse Sarai.

Gill's Notes on the Bible

And he said, who art thou?.... He spoke quick and short, as one displeased, or however surprised and frightened, just coming out of sleep, and in the night:

and she answered, I am Ruth thine handmaid; that had gleaned in his fields with his maidens, and with whom he had conversed there, and knew her by name:

spread therefore thy skirt over thy handmaid; which seems to account for the reason of her uncovering his feet, or turning up the skirt of his garment that was upon them; not through wantonness and immodesty, but to direct him, when opportunity offered, to spread it over her as a token of his taking her in marriage, and of her being under his care and protection, and of her subjection to him; so the Targum,

"let thy name be called upon me to take me for a wife,''

Whether the custom now used with the Jews at marriage, for a man to cast the skirt of his "talith", or outward garment, over the head of his spouse, and cover it, was in use so early, is questionable; and yet something like it seems to have been done, as this phrase intimates, and to which there is an allusion in Ezekiel 16:8. So Jarchi,

"spread the skirt of thy garments to cover me with thy talith, and this is expressive of marriage;''

and Aben Ezra says, it intimates taking her to him for wife; though as the word signifies a wing, the allusion may be to the wings of birds spread over their young, to cherish and protect them, which are acts to be done by a man to his wife:

for thou art a near kinsman; as she had been informed by Naomi, to whom the right of redemption of her husband's estate belonged, and in whom it lay to marry her, and raise up seed to his kinsman, her former husband.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Spread thy skirt ... - The phrase indicates receiving and acknowledging her as a wife.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse Ruth 3:9. Spread therefore thy skirt over thine hand maid — Hebrew, Spread thy wing. The wing is the emblem of protection, and is a metaphor taken from the young of fowls, which run under the wings of their mothers, that they may be saved from birds of prey. The meaning here is, Take me to thee for wife; and so the Targum has translated it, Let thy name be called on thy handmaid to take me for wife, because thou art the redeemer; i.e., thou art the גאל goel, the kinsman, to whom the right of redemption belongs. See on Ruth 2:20. Even to the present day, when a Jew marries a woman, he throws the skirt or end of his talith over her, to signify that he has taken her under his protection.