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Orpah

Mentioned in 1307 BC traditional (Jones)

Forelock or fawn, a Moabitess, the wife of Chilion (Ruth 1:4; 4:10). On the death of her husband she accompanied Naomi, her mother-in-law, part of the way to Bethlehem, and then returned to Moab.

From Easton’s Bible Dictionary (1897).

Partner
Chilion
Born at
Moab
Tagged in
2 verses

Computed from the data. Years are traditional (Jones).

Family

Two generations up and the children. Gold lines join partners; grey lines run from parent to child; a dotted line marks a parent named in the text but not by descent.

Family tree of Orpah: two generations up and down, with partners and siblings.

Places

Places named in the same verses as Orpah, with the number of verses they share; a larger marker means more. Locations follow OpenBible.info, which grades each identification. A dashed ring on the map marks a region, river, or mountain rather than a town.

  1. location not graded: Moab0

Timeline

The strip runs from Creation to AD 100; the shaded part, 1332–1282 BC, is drawn below at a larger scale around these mentions. Years are traditional (Jones), shown as recorded, not as settled fact.

Timeline of Orpah’s mentions beside the people of the same era.

Mentions

Begat counts Orpah in 2 tagged verses in one book.

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  1. Ruth2

The name in each translation

TextOccurrences of each name
BSBOrpah 2
KJVOrpah 2
ASVOrpah 2

Whole-word, case-sensitive count of the name string (regex \bName\b, so possessives like "Abraham's" count) across the whole Bible text of each translation; this counts the string, not the person, so other people who share the name are included and pronoun references are not. How Begat counts

Every verse

All 2 tagged verses, by book, in canonical order. The Berean Standard Bible is shown; switch to the King James or American Standard Version.

Ruth2 verses
  1. 1:4

    who took Moabite women as their wives, one named Orpah and the other named Ruth. And after they had lived in Moab about ten years,

  2. 1:14

    Again they wept aloud, and Orpah kissed her mother-in-law goodbye, but Ruth clung to her.

Easton’s Bible Dictionary

The full entry, public domain, as printed in 1897.

Forelock or fawn, a Moabitess, the wife of Chilion (Ruth 1:4; 4:10). On the death of her husband she accompanied Naomi, her mother-in-law, part of the way to Bethlehem, and then returned to Moab.