Orpah
ORPAH
The Moabites, Naomi’s daughter-in-law, who remained with her people and gods, when Ruth followed Naomi and the Lord, Rth 1:4-14 . The one was taken and the other left.
Fuente: American Tract Society Bible Dictionary
Orpah
(Heb. Orpah’, , supposed to be transposed for , a gazelle; Sept. ), a Moabitish woman, wife of Chilion, son of Naomi, and thereby sister-in-law to Ruth. B.C. cir. 1360. On the death of their husbands Orpah accompanied her sister-in-law and her mother-in-law on the road to Bethlehem. But here her resolution failed her. The offer which Naomi made to the two younger women that they should return each to her own mother’s house, after a slight hesitation, she embraced. Orpah kissed her mother-in-law, and went back to her people and to her gods, leaving to the unconscious Ruth the glory, which she might have rivalled, of being the mother of the most illustrious house of that or any nation (Rth 1:4; Rth 1:14). SEE RUTH.
Fuente: Cyclopedia of Biblical, Theological and Ecclesiastical Literature
Orpah
forelock or fawn, a Moabitess, the wife of Chilion (Ruth 1:4; 4:10). On the death of her husband she accompanied Naomi, her mother-in-law, part of the way to Bethlehem, and then returned to Moab.
Fuente: Easton’s Bible Dictionary
Orpah
(See NOAMI; BOAZ.) Wife of Chilion. (See CHILION.) On her husband’s death accompanied Naomi toward Bethlehem a short distance, but, in spite of professions of attachment and tears, she went back to “her people and her gods,” and lost the golden opportunity which Ruth embraced of having Israel’s God for her God. “Orpah kissed her mother in law, but Ruth clave unto her” (Rth 1:14, compare Pro 17:17; Pro 18:24; compare Demas, 2Ti 4:10). Orpah’s name is now dishonoured, and her seed if she had any is consigned to oblivion. Ruth’s Seed – Jesus Christ – is the name at which every knee shall bow (Phi 2:10).
Fuente: Fausset’s Bible Dictionary
Orpah
ORPAH.A Moabitess, sister of Ruth and daughter-in-law of Naomi. When the latter was returning to her own country, Orpah, following Naomis advice, elected to go back to her own people and to her god (or gods), while her sister went with her mother-in-law (Rth 1:4-14).
Fuente: Hastings’ Dictionary of the Bible
Orpah
Wife of Chillon, son of Elimelech. (Rth 1:4) If from Sarah, the name means nakedness.
Fuente: The Poor Mans Concordance and Dictionary to the Sacred Scriptures
Orpah
orpa (, orpah; for meaning see below): A Moabitess, wife of Mahlon, son of Elimelech and Naomi. Unlike her sister Ruth she returned to her own people after escorting Naomi on her way to Judah (Rth 1:4 ff). Her name is supposed to be derived from the Hebrew word for neck (, oreph), and so to mean stiff-necked because of her turning-back from following her mother-in-law; others take it to mean gazelle.
Fuente: International Standard Bible Encyclopedia
Orpah
Orpah (fawn), daughter-in-law of Naomi, who remained behind among her kindred in Moab, when Ruth returned with Naomi to Bethlehem (Rth 1:4-14) [RUTH].
Fuente: Popular Cyclopedia Biblical Literature
Orpah
[Or’pah]
Wife of Chilion son of Elimelech. She wept at parting from her mother-in-law, but she returned to Moab when Naomi with Ruth came to Canaan. Rth 1:4; Rth 1:14. She stands in contrast to Ruth, whose faith and trust in the God of Israel were so highly rewarded.
Fuente: Concise Bible Dictionary
Orpah
H6204
Daughter-in-law of Naomi.
Rth 1:4; Rth 1:14
Fuente: Nave’s Topical Bible
Orpah
Or’pah. (a gazelle). A Moabite woman, wife of Chilion, son of Naomi, and thereby, sister-in-law to Ruth. Rth 2:4; Rth 2:14. (B.C. 1360).