Elimelech

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Meaning: God his king

A man of the tribe of Judah, of the family of the Hezronites, and kinsman of Boaz, who dwelt in Bethlehem in the days of the judges. In consequence of a great dearth he, with his wife Naomi and his two sons, went to dwell in the land of Moab. There he and his sons died (Ruth 1:2f; Ruth 2:1ff; Ruth 4:3, Ruth 4:9). Naomi afterwards returned to Palestine with her daughter Ruth.

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A man of the tribe of Judah, living in Bethlehemjudah at the time of the Judges (Ruth 1:2). Scarcity of food compelled him to emigrate with his family to Moab, where he died, and where one of his sons married Ruth (Ruth 1:3f). As a relative of Boaz (Ruth 2:1, Ruth 4:3), he was of the family of the Hezronites. But according to Rab (B. B. 91a), Elimelech, Salmon (the father of Boaz), Peloni-Almoni, and the father of Naomi were the sons of Nahshon ben Aminadab. R. Simon b. Yoḥai contends (ib.) that Elimelech was one of the chiefs of Israel, and that his premature death was his punishment for having left the Holy Land and having settled in the land of Moab.