Ruth 1:20
And she said unto them, Call me not Naomi, call me Mara: for the Almighty hath dealt very bitterly with me.
Biblical meaning of the name Naomi
Meaning
“Pleasant”, “sweet”
From the Hebrew No’omi (נָעֳמִי), from no’am, “pleasantness”. After losing her husband and both sons, she asked to be called Mara, “bitter”.
In the original:נׇעֳמִי Noʻŏmîy · Strong H5281
Who was Naomi in the Bible?
Naomi left Bethlehem with her family because of a famine and came back widowed and childless, with only her daughter-in-law Ruth. She was the one who guided Ruth to Boaz; in the end, the woman who called herself bitter held her grandson Obed, David’s grandfather, in her arms.
Where the name appears
Ruth 4:17
And the women her neighbours gave it a name, saying, There is a son born to Naomi; and they called his name Obed: he is the father of Jesse, the father of David.
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