BOOK OF RUTH

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does Book of Ruth mean? 

• BOOK OF RUTH (noun)
  The noun BOOK OF RUTH has 1 sense:

1. 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

  Familiarity information: BOOK OF RUTH used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• BOOK OF RUTH (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

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

Classified under:

Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents

Synonyms:

Book of Ruth; Ruth

Instance hypernyms:

book (a major division of a long written composition)

Holonyms ("Book of Ruth" is a part of...):

Old Testament (the collection of books comprising the sacred scripture of the Hebrews and recording their history as the chosen people; the first half of the Christian Bible)

Hagiographa; Ketubim; Writings (the third of three divisions of the Hebrew Scriptures)