Ruth

Ruth

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1. Old Testament

a. a Moabite woman, who left her own people to remain with her mother-in-law Naomi, and became the wife of Boaz; an ancestress of David

b. the book in which these events are recounted

2. George Herman, nicknamed Babe. 1895--1948, US professional baseball player from 1914 to 1935

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Ruth

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Old Testament

a. a Moabite woman, who left her own people to remain with her mother-in-law Naomi, and became the wife of Boaz; an ancestress of David

b. the book in which these events are recounted

Collins Discovery Encyclopedia, 1st edition © HarperCollins Publishers 2005

Ruth

(religion, spiritualism, and occult)

Ruth, asteroid 798 (the 798th asteroid to be discovered, on November 21, 1914), is approximately 54 kilometers in diameter and has an orbital period of 5.2 years. It was named after the biblical Ruth and represents loyalty. In a natal chart, Ruth’s location by sign and house indicates where and how one is most likely to be loyal or to experience loyal devotion from others. When afflicted by inharmonious aspects, Ruth may show disloyalty or overt displays of loyalty that are not felt. If prominent in a chart (e.g., conjunct the Sun or the ascendant), it may signal an exceptionally loyal person or someone for whom loyalty and devotion are important life themes.

Sources:

Kowal, Charles T. Asteroids: Their Nature and Utilization. Chichester, West Sussex, UK: Ellis Horwood Limited, 1988.

Room, Adrian. Dictionary of Astronomical Names. London: Routledge, 1988.

Schwartz, Jacob. Asteroid Name Encyclopedia. St. Paul, MN: Llewellyn Publications, 1995.

The Astrology Book, Second Edition © 2003 Visible Ink Press®. All rights reserved.

Ruth

devotedly follows mother-in-law to Bethlehem. [O.T.: Ruth 1:15–17]

See: Loyalty

Allusions—Cultural, Literary, Biblical, and Historical: A Thematic Dictionary. Copyright 2008 The Gale Group, Inc. All rights reserved.

RUTH

D.A. Harrison at Newcastle University. Real-time language based on LispKit. Uses timestamps and real-time clocks.

["RUTH: A Functional Language for Real-Time Programming", D. Harrison in PARLE: Parallel Architectures and Languages Europe, LNCS 259, Springer 1987, pp.297-314].

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