ruth 音標拼音: [r'uθ]
n . 憐憫,悲哀
憐憫,悲哀
Ruth n 1 :
United States professional baseball player famous for hitting home runs (
1895 -
1948 ) [
synonym : {
Ruth }, {
Babe Ruth },
{
George Herman Ruth }, {
Sultan of Swat }]
2 :
the great -
grandmother of king David whose story is told in the Book of Ruth in the Old Testament 3 :
a feeling of sympathy and sorrow for the misfortunes of others ; "
the blind are too often objects of pity " [
synonym :
{
commiseration }, {
pity }, {
ruth }, {
pathos }]
4 :
a book of the Old Testament that tells the story of Ruth who was not an Israelite but who married an Israelite and who stayed with her mother -
in -
law Naomi after her husband died [
synonym : {
Ruth }, {
Book of Ruth }]
Ruth \
Ruth \ (
r [
udd ]
th ),
n . [
From {
Rue },
v .:
cf .
Icel .
hrygg [
eth ],
hryg [
eth ].]
1 .
Sorrow for the misery of another ;
pity ;
tenderness .
[
Poetic ] "
They weep for ruth ." --
Chaucer . "
Have ruth of the poor ." --
Piers Plowman .
[
1913 Webster ]
To stir up gentle ruth ,
Both for her noble blood ,
and for her tender youth .
--
Spenser .
[
1913 Webster ]
2 .
That which causes pity or compassion ;
misery ;
distress ;
a pitiful sight . [
Obs .]
[
1913 Webster ]
It had been hard this ruth for to see . --
Chaucer .
[
1913 Webster ]
With wretched miseries and woeful ruth . --
Spenser .
[
1913 Webster ]
32 Moby Thesaurus words for "
ruth ":
attrition ,
benevolence ,
clemency ,
commiseration ,
compassion ,
compunction ,
condolence ,
contrition ,
favor ,
feeling ,
forbearance ,
forgiveness ,
grace ,
humanity ,
kindness ,
leniency ,
mercy ,
mitigation ,
pardon ,
pathos ,
penance ,
penitently ,
pity ,
quarter ,
relief ,
remorse ,
remorsefulness ,
repentance ,
reprieve ,
rue ,
self -
pity ,
sympathy D .
A .
Harrison at Newcastle University .
Real -
time language
based on LispKit .
Uses timestamps and real -
time clocks .
["
RUTH :
A Functional Language for Real -
Time Programming ",
D .
Harrison in PARLE :
Parallel Architectures and Languages
Europe ,
LNCS 259 ,
Springer 1987 ,
pp .
297 -
314 ].
Ruth a friend ,
a Moabitess ,
the wife of Mahlon ,
whose father ,
Elimelech ,
had settled in the land of Moab .
On the death of Elimelech and Mahlon ,
Naomi came with Ruth ,
her daughter -
in -
law ,
who refused to leave her ,
to Bethlehem ,
the old home from which Elimelech had migrated .
There she had a rich relative ,
Boaz ,
to whom Ruth was eventually married .
She became the mother of Obed ,
the grandfather of David .
Thus Ruth ,
a Gentile ,
is among the maternal progenitors of our Lord (
Matt .
1 :
5 ).
The story of "
the gleaner Ruth illustrates the friendly relations between the good Boaz and his reapers ,
the Jewish land system ,
the method of transferring property from one person to another ,
the working of the Mosaic law for the relief of distressed and ruined families ;
but ,
above all ,
handing down the unselfishness ,
the brave love ,
the unshaken trustfulness of her who ,
though not of the chosen race ,
was ,
like the Canaanitess Tamar (
Gen .
38 :
29 ;
Matt .
1 :
3 )
and the Canaanitess Rahab (
Matt .
1 :
5 ),
privileged to become the ancestress of David ,
and so of '
great David '
s greater Son '"
(
Ruth 4 :
18 -
22 ).
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