Orpah
עׇרְפָּהStrong’s H6204orpah (or-pah)
Appears in 2 verses of the Old Testament
In short
Orpah is the Hebrew word usually translated “orpah”. It appears in 2 verses of the Old Testament.
“And they took them wives of the women of Moab; the name of the one was Orpah, and the name of the other Ruth: and they dwelled there about ten years.”
Meaning
- A woman of the Moabites living before Israel's Monarchy, first mentioned at Rut.1.4; married to Chilion (H3630)
How it's translated
- orpah 2
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- Ruth 2
1 book in all.
Explore in Scripture
Hebrew dictionary
עׇרְפָּה orpah · Orpah
A woman of the Moabites living before Israel's Monarchy, first mentioned at Rut.1.4; married to Chilion (H3630) § Orpah = "gazelle" a Moabite woman, wife of Chilion, the son of Naomi, and sister-in- law of Ruth
From STEPBible’s Hebrew lexicon (based on Brown-Driver-Briggs).
Verses are from the King James Version. Word meanings come from the original Hebrew, not from any one translation.