Ruth (NIV)
(Chapter 1)
1:13 would you wait until they grew up? Would you remain unmarried for them? No, my daughters. It is more bitter for me than for you, because the LORD’S hand has gone out against me!”
go out against 반대하다.
1:14 At this they wept again. Then Orpah kissed her mother-in-law good-by, but Ruth clung to her.
cling 1.Verb 꼭 붙잡다, 매달리다 2.달라[들러]붙다 3.보통 못마땅함 애착을 갖다
1:21 I went away full, but the LORD has brought me back empty. Why call me Naomi? The LORD has afflicted me; the Almighty has brought misfortune upon me.”
afflict Verb 격식 괴롭히다, 피해를 입히다
(Chapter 2)
2:3 So she went out and began to glean in the fields behind the harvesters. As it turned out, she found herself working in a field belonging to Boaz, who was from the clan of Elimelech.
glean[gather] grains 이삭을 줍다
2:5 Boaz asked the foreman of his harvesters, “Whose young woman is that?”
foreman ( forewoman ) 1.Noun (공장·건설 현장의) 감독 2.배심장, 배심원 대표
2:7 She said, ‘Please let me glean and gather among the sheaves behind the harvesters.’ She went into the field and has worked steadily from morning till now, except for a short rest in the shelter.”
sheave Transitive verb <곡물 등을> 다발로 묶다, 모으다
2:19 Her mother-in-law asked her, “Where did you glean today? Where did you work? Blessed be the man who took notice of you!” Then Ruth told her mother-in-law about the one at whose place she had been working. “The name of the man I worked with today is Boaz,” she said.
take notice of …을 알아차리다, 주의하다; …을 후대하다; (신문 따위가) …을 들어 논평하다
2:20 “The LORD bless him!” Naomi said to her daughter-in-law. “He has not stopped showing his kindness to the living and the dead.” She added, “That man is our close relative; he is one of our kinsman-redeemers.”
kinsman ( kinswoman ) Noun 구식 또는 문예체 친척, 일가
(Chapter 3)
3:2 Is not Boaz, with whose servant girls you have been, a kinsman of ours? Tonight he will be winnowing barley on the threshing floor.
winnow Verb (곡식에서 쭉정이 등을 가려내려고) 까부르다, 키질하다
3:12 Although it is true that I am near of kin, there is a kinsman-redeemer nearer than I.
kin Noun 구식 또는 격식 친족, 친척 (→kindred, next of kin)
3:15 He also said, “Bring me the shawl you are wearing and hold it out.” When she did so, he poured into it six measures of barley and put it on her. Then he went back to town.
shawl Noun 숄 어깨 걸이
(Chapter 4)