Boaz:
(fleetness).
(1.) A wealthy Bethlehemite kinsman to Elimelech the husband of Naomi. He married Ruth, and redeemed the estates of her deceased husband Mahlon (Ruth 4:1). Boaz is mentioned in the genealogy of Christ (Matthew 1:5). (B.C. 1250, but there is great difficulty in assigning his date.)
(2.) The name of one of Solomon's brazen pillars erected in the temple porch. SEE [JACHIN]. It stood on the left, and was eighteen cubits high (1 Kings 7:15; 21; 2 Chronicles 3:15; Jeremiah 52:21).
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