Kiljon
Kiljon is Orpa's husband in the Book of Ruth in the Old Testament .
etymology
The Hebrew name כִּלְיוֹן Kiljon is derived from the Hebrew root כלה kalah "to be over / to be past / to fade away / to languish". כִּלָּיוֹן killajon means "annihilation / languishing" (in the status constructus כִּלְיוֹן Kiljon ), Kiljon can be translated as "weak / infirm".
This name already indicates what is reported in Ruth 1.5 EU , namely that Kiljon will die. The use of “speaking names” is characteristic of the book of Ruth and indicates that the characters involved should be understood as literary figures and not as historical personalities.
In the Septuagint the name is rendered with χελαιων chelaiōn .
Biblical report
According to Ruth 1,2 EU Kiljon is the youngest son of Elimelech and Naomi. He is an Efratite and comes from Bethlehem in Judah . He and his parents and older brother Machlon moved away from Bethlehem to the grasslands of Moab at the time of the judges because of a famine . There he married the Moabite Orpa after Elimelech's death. Ruth 4,10 EU leaves open which is his wife and which is his brother's wife, only Ruth 4,10 EU mentions Ruth as Machlon's wife, so that Orpah can be deduced as Kiljon's wife. After ten years, he and his brother Machlon died with no offspring. As reported in Ruth 4,9 EU , the property of Kiljon passes to Boaz together with the property of his father and brother .
Individual evidence
- ↑ Gesenius , 16th ed. 1915, p. 346.
- ↑ Gesenius , 16th ed. 1915, p. 348.
- ↑ a b Irmtraud Fischer: Rut / Rutbuch. In: Michaela Bauks, Klaus Koenen, Stefan Alkier (Eds.): The Scientific Biblical Lexicon on the Internet (WiBiLex), Stuttgart 2006 ff.