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    Elimelech

    eh-LIM-eh-lek

    Hebrew
    Boy
    In the King James Bible
    Meaning
    My God is King
    Origin
    Hebrew
    Is it in the Bible?
    Yes — Elimelech appears in the King James Bible, including Ruth 1:1-2.
    First appears in
    Ruth — Conquest and judges
    Peak US usage
    No recorded United States usage in the 1880–2008 records
    Spiritual meaning
    Elimelech — 'my God is King' — left the land of promise during famine. His story asks: do we truly let God reign, or do we take matters into our own hands when circumstances grow difficult?
    King James verses
    • Ruth 1:1-2

      "Now it came to pass in the days when the judges ruled, that there was a famine in the land. And a certain man of Bethlehemjudah went to sojourn in the country of Moab, he, and his wife, and his two sons. And the name of the man was Elimelech."

    • Ruth 1:3

      "And Elimelech Naomi's husband died; and she was left, and her two sons."

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