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The Places of Ruth

Ruth names 3 places; Bethlehem, Moab and Ephrathah most often. 3 of them can be put on a map, 3 with confidence. The places and their references are OpenBible.info’s, which gathers what modern atlases and commentaries say about where each one stood.

Map of The Holy Land with the places named in Ruth. Every place is listed in the table below.34°E35°E36°E30°N31°N32°N33°NBethlehemEphrathahBethlehemMoabEphrathahN040 km
  • Located with confidence
  • Location uncertain
  • Mountain
The Holy Land, with the coasts and lakes as they lie today.

Every place in Ruth

The most often named first. Each place is set where its source puts it, and nowhere else; a place no source locates is listed and not drawn. References follow the chapter and verse numbering of the English Bible, which differs from the Septuagint’s in places.

PlaceReferencesSourceConfidence
Bethlehem1:1, 1:2, 1:19, 1:22, 2:1, 2:4, 4:11OpenBible.infoHigh
Moab1:1, 1:2, 1:4, 1:6, 1:22, 2:6, 4:3OpenBible.infoHigh
Ephrathah4:11OpenBible.infoHigh

Places from OpenBible.info’s Bible Geocoding Data, under the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 licence, and from Pleiades, © the Pleiades contributors, under the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 licence. Coastlines, lakes and rivers from Natural Earth; relief from SRTM and ETOPO1 elevation data by way of the AWS Terrain Tiles; all public domain.