Bible Strands
Ruth 2:14
At mealtime Boaz said to her, “Come over here; have some bread and dip it into the vinegar sauce.” So she sat down beside the harvesters, and he offered her roasted grain, and she ate and was satisfied and had some left over.
Berean Standard Bible
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Study note
Setting — At the midday meal, Boaz calls Ruth over to sit with the harvesters and offers her bread dipped in vinegar sauce and roasted grain. She eats until satisfied and packs the remainder to take back to the town.
The words — The imperative גֹּשִֽׁי (Go.shi) directs Ruth to "approach" or "come over here," while לְ/עֵ֣ת הָ/אֹ֗כֶל (le./'Et ha./'O.khel) anchors the invitation to the specific "time of the meal" when provision is distributed.
The thread — Ruth carries the leftover grain to Naomi in the town (Ruth 2:18), tracing a pattern where physical satisfaction precedes thanksgiving (Deuteronomy 8:10) and mirroring narratives where provision exceeds immediate need (2 Kings 4:43).
Why it lands — The text documents concrete, public care for a vulnerable foreign worker, requiring the reader to acknowledge that practical dignity and surplus provision are enacted before any spiritual response is expected.
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The Hebrew words
King James Version
And Boaz said unto her, At mealtime come thou hither, and eat of the bread, and dip thy morsel in the vinegar. And she sat beside the reapers: and he reached her parched corn, and she did eat, and was sufficed, and left.
Cross-references
- Ruth 2:18 She picked up the grain and went into the town, where her mother-in-law saw what she had gleaned. And she brought out what she had saved from her meal and gave it to Naomi.
- Deuteronomy 8:10 When you eat and are satisfied, you are to bless the LORD your God for the good land that He has given you.
- 2 Kings 4:43 But his servant asked, “How am I to set twenty loaves before a hundred men?” “Give it to the people to eat,” said Elisha, “for this is what the LORD says: ‘They will eat and have some left over.’”
- Matthew 14:20 They all ate and were satisfied, and the disciples picked up twelve basketfuls of broken pieces that were left over.
- Luke 14:12 Then Jesus said to the man who had invited Him, “When you host a dinner or a banquet, do not invite your friends or brothers or relatives or rich neighbors. Otherwise, they may invite you in return, and you will be repaid.
- Deuteronomy 11:15 And I will provide grass in the fields for your livestock, and you will eat and be satisfied.
- 1 Samuel 17:17 One day Jesse said to his son David, “Take this ephah of roasted grain and these ten loaves of bread for your brothers and hurry to their camp.
- 1 Samuel 25:18 Then Abigail hurried and took two hundred loaves of bread, two skins of wine, five butchered sheep, five seahs of roasted grain, a hundred clusters of raisins, and two hundred cakes of figs. She loaded them on donkeys
- 2 Samuel 17:28 They brought beds, basins, and earthen vessels, as well as wheat, barley, flour, roasted grain, beans, lentils,
- Job 31:16 If I have denied the desires of the poor or allowed the widow’s eyes to fail,