Test 3 - Concepts

Question 1

‘almanah

Answer 1

widow who doesn’t have any male relatives in her new married family to provide for her (husband, son, brother in law, father in law)

Question 2

“house of the removed sandal”

Answer 2

insult to someone who refuses to follow the levirate law

Question 3

“ruling queen”

Answer 3

a woman who rules without the man being involved; Queen of Sheba; Athaliah (Queen of Judah)

Question 4

“spread out one’s wing(s)”

Answer 4

Ruth asks Boaz to “spread…”

can mean to protect you or to place your rope over

Question 5

“uncover a man’s feet”

Answer 5

to reveal the place where his feet are

Question 6

bridewealth

Answer 6

what the grooms family gives the brides family in the marriage

Question 7

dowry

Answer 7

what the brides family gives for the wedding, or the grooms family, when she’s married

Question 8

endogamy

Answer 8

marry inside the clan/keep the land in the clan

if it is sold outside of the clan/family, the redeemer must buy it back

Question 9

genealogy

Answer 9

Boaz was not supposed to be listed as the father of Obed but rather Makhlon as a way to preserve his name

Question 10

gerim

Answer 10

away from any family or protective group; have no male support in their family; (Ruth)

Question 11

gleaning

Answer 11

widow were allowed to follow behind the harvesters and pick up what they left behind in order to survive

Question 12

House of Omri

Answer 12

how Mesopotamians referred to the northern Israel

Question 13

inalienable land

Answer 13

land that cannot go outside of the family; Naboth says that God forbade him from selling the land which he inherited from his father

Question 14

levirate law

Answer 14

it was the duty of the brother-in-law to marry his brother’s sister in order to produce an offspring that will carry on his late brother’s name and to keep all of his brother’s possessions (land, ect) in the family

Question 15

masculine traits

Answer 15

warrior; potent

Question 16

megillot

Answer 16

“scrolls”
5 books in the Hebrew Bible that are read on certain holidays
Ruth: feast of weeks (end of barley harvest, beginning of wheat harvest)

Question 17

Naboth’s vineyard

Answer 17

located next to King Ahab’s castle; Ahab wants to buy the vineyard so he can build a garden in exchange for money or for another vineyard; When Naboth tells him no, Jezebel has Naboth stoned so that Ahab can have the vineyard

Question 18

parallelism

Answer 18

Saying the same thing using different wording

Ruth says “Yahweh has judges me, Shadday has made things bitter for me”

Question 19

Pelony Almony

Answer 19

“Mr.so-and-so”
closest kinsman to Naomi
the man who refused to take care of Ruth
his actual name is not stated because he is a disgrace to his family and he removes his own sandal

Question 20

redeemer

Answer 20

redeem: to buy back
job was to by back land or people if it went outside of the family, take care of family members who had no one else to care for them, and to kill the one who kills his family member

Question 21

son preference

Answer 21

take care of ancestor rights; help in the field; takes care of parents in their old age; daughters are married off at a young age and are no longer a part of their birth family

Question 22

taxes and Solomon

Answer 22

the source of Solomon’s wealth was taxing the spice trade; breaks up Israel into 12 taxation districts

Question 23

the gate of a city

Answer 23

where the elders were and where important meetings/business took place

Question 24

threshing grain

Answer 24

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Question 25

threshing sledge

Answer 25

flat piece of wood that separates the grain from what has been cut;
attached to oxen and children sit on it to thresh the grain

Question 26

to preserve a dead man’s name

Answer 26

after a woman’s husband dies, she bares a son with someone else and he will be considered the son of her first husband in order to preserve his name;
Ruth and Boaz’s son should have been in the genealogy of Makhlon

Question 27

trade between Arabia and Judah

Answer 27

spice trade; is significant because the Queen of Sheba bring spices to Solomon

Question 28

winnow grain

Answer 28

after you’ve threshed the grain, you throw it in the air and the chaff if blow away by the wind while the grain falls back down