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  • noun a female Moabite

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Examples

  • Even David, the arch hero, or hero of all heroes by rabbinic standards, wouldn't be considered Jewish at all though, to go back to more recent grimness, by Nazi standards, he most certainly would have since his paternal great grandmother, Ruth, is clearly designated as a Moabitess.

    Robert Eisenman: Abrahamic Conversion Robert Eisenman 2011

  • Even David, the arch hero, or hero of all heroes by rabbinic standards, wouldn't be considered Jewish at all though, to go back to more recent grimness, by Nazi standards, he most certainly would have since his paternal great grandmother, Ruth, is clearly designated as a Moabitess.

    Robert Eisenman: Abrahamic Conversion Robert Eisenman 2011

  • She was unversed in history, having learned to read only the signs of weather and of game; so she had never heard of Abel nor of Abraham; nor, having escaped the good sisters at Holy Cross, had she been told the story of Ruth, the Moabitess, who renounced her very God for the sake of

    THE STORY OF JEES UCK 2010

  • Esther (1912); Joseph and His Brethren (1905); For Liberty (1903); Ruth, the Moabitess (1910).

    Janie Jacobson. 2009

  • Among them were For Liberty (1903), a play about Jewish patriotism for the Jewish holiday of Hanukkah; Joseph and His Brethren (1905), a play based on scripture in four acts; Ruth, the Moabitess (1910), a scriptural play in three acts; and Esther (1912), a scriptural play in five acts.

    Janie Jacobson. 2009

  • Ruth adheres to Israel and thereby adopts all its positive qualities, even becoming the mother of the Israelite royal line; Orpah returns to Moab, thus reverting to being a Moabitess, estranged from all that is Israelite.

    Orpah: Midrash and Aggadah. 2009

  • A specific example is Naaman the Syrian, or Ruth the Moabitess, or Rahab, or the mob of Egyptians that followed the Israelites out of Egypt in the Exodus, thus deserting their homeland to follow the chosen people of the God Who had proved Himself much mightier than their so-called deities and their Pharaoh.

    Evolution and Liberal Christianity James F. McGrath 2009

  • And Ruth the Moabitess said unto Naomi, Let me now go to the field, and glean ears of corn after him in whose sight I shall find grace.

    The Dor�� Gallery of Bible Illustrations 2008

  • And these are they that conspired against him; Zabad the son of Shimeath an Ammonitess, and Jehozabad the son of Shimrith a Moabitess.

    Probably Just One Of Those Funny Coincidences 2006

  • And these are they that conspired against him; Zabad the son of Shimeath an Ammonitess, and Jehozabad the son of Shimrith a Moabitess.

    Villaraigosa And Nunez Cut And Run - Video Report 2006

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