A name from Scripture
Mahlon
MAH-lon
Meaning
Sickness; Weak; Infirm
Hebrew origin · Boy · First in Ruth
What it points to
Mahlon — named 'sickness' — died young in a foreign land. Yet his brief marriage to Ruth connected a Moabite gleaner to the royal line of David. No life is too short or too small for God to use eternally.
Verses · King James Version
“Moreover Ruth the Moabitess, the wife of Mahlon, have I purchased to be my wife, to raise up the name of the dead upon his inheritance, that the name of the dead be not cut off.”
Ruth 4:10
“And the name of the man was Elimelech, and the name of his wife Naomi, and the name of his two sons Mahlon and Chilion, Ephrathites of Bethlehemjudah.”
Ruth 1:2