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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. Ru 4:1 Boaz is mentioned in the genealogy of Christ, Mt 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. [JACHIN] It stood on the left, and was eighteen cubits high.
        1Ki 7:15, 21; 2Ch 3:15; Jer 52:21


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Smith, William, Dr "Meaning and Definition for 'boaz' in Smiths Bible Dictionary".
bible-history.com - Smith's; 1901.

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