What Does Ruth 4:14 Mean in the King James?
And the women said unto Naomi, Blessed be the LORD, which hath not left thee this day without a kinsman, that his name may be famous in Israel.
The analysis reads the King James wording.
King James Version The King James Version, first published in 1611. Selah Verse shows the standard text.
THE KEY
Here, redemption is so concrete that a newborn is named as the kin who keeps a bereaved woman’s family future alive.
THE MEANING
The verse holds open a future for you even where loss makes your place in a family story feel uncertain. It names the LORD’s blessing through a kinsman whose life and name continue within the people.
WHAT THIS UNDOES
It undoes the belief that bereavement makes a person kinless and leaves their family with no future.
THE ROOT
גֹּאֵל
go'el
GROWS FROM
גאל
g-ʾ-l
To redeem or reclaim as a near relative.
The word translated “kinsman” is go’el, one who redeems as kin. It carries a task as well as a family bond: reclaiming what is at risk for those who belong together, so Naomi’s future is held within her people.
ALSO GROWS
ga'al: To redeem or reclaim.
גָּאַל
This verb names the action behind “kinsman”: restoration takes place through a family bond.
ge'ullah: Redemption; the right or act of reclaiming.
גְּאֻלָּה
This related noun names reclaimed belonging, giving the verse’s hope a concrete family shape.
THE PATTERN
Kinship keeps a life and inheritance within a family when they are at risk of being lost.
And it shall be, that the firstborn which she beareth shall succeed in the name of his brother which is dead, that his name be not put out of Israel.And if children, then heirs; heirs of God, and joint-heirs with Christ; if so be that we suffer with him, that we may be also glorified together.For both he that sanctifieth and they who are sanctified are all of one: for which cause he is not ashamed to call them brethren,THE THREAD
If thy brother be waxen poor, and hath sold away some of his possession, and if any of his kin come to redeem it, then shall he redeem that which his brother sold.The phrase translated “his kin” refers to the same family-redeemer word, גֹּאֵל (go’el), the near relative who reclaims for kin. Leviticus shows that bond restoring what has slipped from the family; Ruth lets it reach into Naomi’s future.
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