Ruth 2:5
Then said Boaz unto his servant that was set over the reapers, Whose damsel is this?
Then said Boaz vnto his seruant, that was set ouer the reapers, Whose damosell is this?
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- 1 Chronicles 2:11–12Rank 1 from verse 5
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Ruth 2:5
Spoke, declared, reported, commanded, or expressed in words.
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One who serves another; a worker, attendant, subject, bondservant, or appointed minister.
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1. To put or place a person or thing in a position, relation, or condition; when passive, to be so placed, fixed, or adorned. 2. To establish, fix, appoint, assign, prescribe, or determine. 3. To arrange, prepare, present, display, or put in order or array. 4. To direct, turn, or firmly apply the face, heart, eyes, mind, affection, or action toward something. 5. To start, advance, send out, proceed on a course or work, or make an attack, as in set forward, set forth, or set upon where those meanings apply. 6. To value or esteem; or, in set at nought or set light by, to despise. 7. Of the sun, to go down.
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Persons who cut and gather grain.
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A girl or young woman.
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4¶ And, behold, Boaz came from Beth-lehem, and said unto the reapers, The Lord be with you. And they answered him, The Lord bless thee.
4¶ And behold, Boaz came from Bethlehem, and said vnto the reapers, The LORD bee with you; and they answered him, The LORD blesse thee.
5Then said Boaz unto his servant that was set over the reapers, Whose damsel is this?
5Then said Boaz vnto his seruant, that was set ouer the reapers, Whose damosell is this?
Selected passage6And the servant that was set over the reapers answered and said, It is the Moabitish damsel that came back with Naomi out of the country of Moab:
6And the seruaunt that was set ouer the reapers, answered and said, It is the Moabitish damosell that came backe with Naomi out of the countrey of Moab: