Boaz
(fl. 12th cent, BCE)
Israelite landowner, husband of
Ruth. When
Ruth came to glean in his fields, Boaz saw and admired her devotion to her widowed mother-in-law
Naomi. As a kinsman of
Elimelech (Ruth's father-in-law), Boaz undertook to marry her (Ruth 2-4).
Dictionary of Jewish Biography.
Dan Cohn-Sherbok.