Introduction
A Moabite woman who, widowed, chose to stay with her mother-in-law Naomi and return to Bethlehem; later remarried Boaz and became, per the text, great-grandmother of King David
Family
This article records a figure from the Hebrew Bible's narrative genealogy of Israel, as told across the Torah and the Former Prophets. It follows the text's own presentation of events rather than adjudicating questions of historicity, which remain debated among biblical scholars and archaeologists.