Orpah

In Bible versions:

Orpah: NET AVS NIV NRSV NASB TEV

a woman of Moab; wife of Chilion son of Ruth

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the neck or skull

Arts:

Arts Topics: Portraits of Orpah

Hebrew

Strongs #06204: hpre `Orpah

Orpah = "gazelle"

1) a Moabite woman, wife of Chilion, the son of Naomi, and sister-in-
law of Ruth

6204 `Orpah or-paw'

feminine of 6203; mane; Orpah, a Moabites:-Orpah.
see HEBREW for 06203

Orpah [EBD]

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.

Orpah [NAVE]

ORPAH, daughter-in-law of Naomi, Ruth 1:4, 14.

ORPAH [SMITH]

(a gazelle), a Moabite woman wife of Chilion son of Naomi, and thereby sister-in-law to Ruth. (Ruth 2:4,14) (B.C. 1360.)

ORPAH [ISBE]

ORPAH - or'-pa (`orpah; for meaning see below): A Moabitess, wife of Mahlon, son of Elimelech and Naomi. Unlike her sister Ruth she returned to her own people after escorting Naomi on her way to Judah (Ruth 1:4 ff). Her name is supposed to be derived from the Hebrew word for "neck" (`oreph), and so to mean "stiff-necked" because of her turning-back from following her mother-in-law; others take it to mean "gazelle."