naomi

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naomi - WordNet (r) 2.1 (2005) :

  Naomi
      n 1: the mother-in-law of Ruth whose story is told in the Book
           of Ruth in the Old Testament [syn: Naomi, Noemi]

naomi - Easton's 1897 Bible Dictionary :

  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.).