A name from Scripture
Elimelech
eh-LIM-eh-lek
Meaning
My God is King
Hebrew origin · Boy · First in Ruth
What it points to
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?
Verses · King James Version
“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 1:1-2
“And Elimelech Naomi's husband died; and she was left, and her two sons.”
Ruth 1:3