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Re: meaning of "Boaz"
Maya,On the Biblehub website, it uses Strong's Exhaustive Concordance and Brown-Driver-Briggs Concordance. I think this helps you see that Boaz's name probably does mean something like swift and strong since Jewish people today attribute it to mean strength, the root word also comes from swiftness/quickness and how Boaz is the name for the pillar in front of the temple. It makes sense to how quickly Boaz married Ruth in the Bible. Once she pointed out how he was the Kinsmen Redeemer for their family, he got it settled in court that day! It's interesting that the pillar to the Temple is named after him since a pillar holds something up and through him, King David and Jesus were born... very interesting!!!~Sherry Stahl Brown-Driver-Briggs
בֹּ֫עַז proper name, masculine (quickness ?) —
1 kinsman of Naomi, who married Ruth Ruth 2:1,3,4,5,8,11,14,15,19,23; Ruth 3:2,7; Ruth 4:1 (twice in verse); Ruth 4:5; Ruth 4:8; Ruth 4:9; Ruth 4:13; also Ruth 4:21 (twice in verse); 1 Chronicles 2:11,12 (ᵐ5 Βοος, Βοοζ).2 name of the left hand of two pillars set up before temple (compare also יָכִין below כון) 1 Kings 7:21 2Chronicles 3:17; (meaning obscure; ᵑ0 apparently reference to 1, compare ᵑ72Chronicles 3:17; Thes supposes name of architect or donor; Ew perhaps sons of Solomon, etc.; read possibly בְּעֹז in strength, ᵐ52Chronicles 3:17 ἰσχύς; Th thinks יכין בעז a sentence, one word being engraved on each pillar, he (God) establisheth in strength; against him, however, Ke Be; Öttli thinks an exclamation, in strength ! expressing satisfaction of architect; Klo proposes for בעז, בַּעַל עֹז (compare B 1 Kings 7:21 Βαλαζ)). Strong's Exhaustive Concordance
Boaz
From an unused root of uncertain meaning; Boaz, the ancestor of David; also the name of a pillar in front of the temple -- Boaz.
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Ruth and Boaz are clearly a type of Christ and the church!
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