Ruth 4:19

19 Hezron fathered Ram,^[a] who fathered Amminadab.

Ruth 4:19 Meaning and Commentary

Ruth 4:19

And Hezron begat Ram
Called Aram by the Septuagint, and so in ( Matthew 1:3 ) ( Luke 3:33 ) ,

and Ram begat Amminadab;
in whose name there is no variation, neither in the book of Chronicles nor in the Evangelists; both these, as well as the next, were born in Egypt.

Ruth 4:19 In-Context

17 The neighbor women said, "A son has been born to Naomi," and they named him Obed. He was the father of Jesse, the father of David.

18 Now this is the genealogy of Perez: Perez fathered Hezron.

19 Hezron fathered Ram, who fathered Amminadab.

20 Amminadab fathered Nahshon, who fathered Salmon.

21 Salmon fathered Boaz, who fathered Obed.

Footnotes

• [a]. LXX reads Aram; Mt 1:3-4