Bible Characters & Character Studies
Orpah
First appears at Ruth 1:4
First named in Scripture at Ruth 1:4 — read the chapter.
From Easton’s Bible Dictionary (1897)
forelock or fawn, a Moabitess, the wife of Chilion (Ruth 1:4; 4:10). On the death of her husband she accompanied Naomi, her mother-in-law, part of the way to Bethlehem, and then returned to Moab.
