Ruth 4:15

Overview - Ruth 4
Boaz calls into judgment the next kinsman.
He refuses the redemption according to the manner in Israel.
Boaz buys the inheritance.
11 He marries Ruth.
13 She bears Obed, the grandfather of David.
18 The generations of Pharez unto David.
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Ruth 4:15  (King James Version)
And he shall be unto thee a restorer of thy life, and a nourisher of thine old age: for thy daughter in law, which loveth thee, which is better to thee than seven sons, hath born him.
 


a nourisher, etc
Hebrew to nourish thy grey hairs.
Genesis 45:11 ; 47:12 Psalms 55:22 ; Isaiah 46:4

for thy
1:16-18

better
1 Samuel 1:8 ; Proverbs 18:24