Naomi

3 definitions found

From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  Naomi
       n : the mother-in-law of Ruth whose story is told in the Book of
           Ruth in the Old Testament [syn: {Noemi}]

From Easton's 1897 Bible Dictionary [easton]:



  Naomi
     the lovable; my delight, the wife of Elimelech, and mother of
     Mahlon and Chilion, and mother-in-law of Ruth (1:2, 20, 21;
     2:1). Elimelech and his wife left the district of
     Bethlehem-Judah, and found a new home in the uplands of Moab. In
     course of time he died, as also his two sons Mahlon and Chilion,
     who had married women of Moab, and three widows were left
     mourning the loss of their husbands. Naomi longs to return now
     to her own land, to Bethlehem. One of her widowed
     daughters-in-law, Ruth, accompanies her, and is at length
     married to Boaz (q.v.).
     

From Hitchcock's Bible Names Dictionary (late 1800's) [hitchcock]:

  Naomi, beautiful; agreeable