Person
Boaz draft
The husband of Ruth, a wealthy Bethlehemite.
Family & connections
- Parents
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Line of descent
31 generations back to God, following the father where one is recorded.
- God
- Adam
- Seth
- Enos
- Cainan (antediluvian patriarch)
- Mahalaleel (line of Seth)
- Jared
- Enoch (father of Methuselah)
- Methuselah
- Lamech (father of Noah)
- Noah
- Shem
- Arphaxad
- Cainan (son of Arphaxad)
- Salah
- Eber (Heber)
- Peleg
- Reu
- Serug
- Nahor (father of Terah)
- Terah
- Abraham
- Isaac
- Jacob (Israel)
- Judah (patriarch)
- Pharez
- Hezron
- Ram
- Amminadab
- Nahshon
- Salmon
- Boaz
Descendants
Three generations.
Easton's Bible Dictionary
The husband of Ruth, a wealthy Bethlehemite. By the “levirate law” the duty devolved on him of marrying Ruth the Moabitess (Ruth 4:1-13). He was a kinsman of Mahlon, her first husband.
In Scripture
24 verses in 6 books
- Ruth2:1, 3–5, 8, 11, 14–15, 19, 23; 3:2, 7; 4:1, 5, 8–9, 13, 21
- 1 Kings7:21
- 1 Chronicles2:11–12
- 2 Chronicles3:17
- Matthew1:5
- Luke3:32
Source: Theographic Bible Metadata (CC-BY-SA-4.0)