Orpah

Gender female Type Person

Moabite wife of Chilion and sister-in-law of Ruth.

About Orpah

Woman of Moab who married Chilion (Ru 1:1–14), son of Elimelech and Naomi. After her husband and sons died, Naomi decided to return to Judah. Both Orpah and Ruth resolved to go with Naomi, but at Naomi’s urging Orpah remained in her homeland.

See also Ruth, Book of.

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Chilion

Key References

Ruth 1:4

who took Moabite women as their wives, one named Orpah and the other named Ruth. And after they had lived in Moab about ten years,

Ruth 1:14

Again they wept aloud, and Orpah kissed her mother-in-law goodbye, but Ruth clung to her.

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Ruth (2)
Ruth 1:4

who took Moabite women as their wives, one named Orpah and the other named Ruth. And after they had lived in Moab about ten years,

Ruth 1:14

Again they wept aloud, and Orpah kissed her mother-in-law goodbye, but Ruth clung to her.