Ruth 2:5 — KJV with Strong's Concordance

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⁵Then said Boaz unto his servant that was set over the reapers, Whose damsel is this?

Ruth 2:5 —

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Commentary

Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)

(vv. 4-16)

Now Boaz himself appears, and a great deal of decency there appears in his carriage both towards his own servants and towards this poor stranger. I. Towards his own servants, and those that were employed for him in reaping and gathering in his corn. Harvest-time is busy time, many hands must then be at work. Boaz that had much, being a mighty man of wealth, had much to do, and consequently many to…

Robert Jamieson, A. R. Fausset, David Brown’s Jamieson-Fausset-Brown Commentary (1871)

(vv. 5)

5. his servant that was set over the reapers--an overseer whose special duty was to superintend the operations in the field, to supply provision to the reapers, and pay them for their labor in the evening.