Ruth 2:17
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She gleaned therefore in the field till evening: and beating out with a rod, and threshing what she had gleaned, she found about the measure of an ephi of barley, that is, three bushels:

she gleaned

Proverbs 31:27 She hath looked well on the paths of her house, and hath not eaten her bread idle.

ephah

Exodus 16:36 Now a gomor is the tenth part of an ephi.

Ezekiel 45:11,12 The ephi and the bate shall be equal, and of one measure: that the bate may contain the tenth part of a core, and the ephi the tenth part of a core: their weight shall be equal according to the measure of a core. . . .

Context
Boaz Meets Ruth
16And let fall some of your handfuls of purpose, and leave them, that she may gather them without shame, and let no man rebuke her when she gathereth them. 17She gleaned therefore in the field till evening: and beating out with a rod, and threshing what she had gleaned, she found about the measure of an ephi of barley, that is, three bushels:18Which she took up, and returned into the city, and shewed it to her mother in law: moreover, she brought out, and gave her of the remains of her meat, wherewith she had been filled.…
Cross References
Ruth 2:16
And let fall some of your handfuls of purpose, and leave them, that she may gather them without shame, and let no man rebuke her when she gathereth them.

Ruth 2:18
Which she took up, and returned into the city, and shewed it to her mother in law: moreover, she brought out, and gave her of the remains of her meat, wherewith she had been filled.

Lexicon
So Ruth gathered grain
וַתְּלַקֵּ֥ט (wat·tə·laq·qêṭ)
Conjunctive waw | Verb - Piel - Consecutive imperfect - third person feminine singular
Strong's Hebrew 3950: To pick up, to gather, to glean

in the field
בַּשָּׂדֶ֖ה (baś·śā·ḏeh)
Preposition-b, Article | Noun - masculine singular
Strong's Hebrew 7704: Field, land

until
עַד־ (‘aḏ-)
Preposition
Strong's Hebrew 5704: As far as, even to, up to, until, while

evening.
הָעָ֑רֶב (hā·‘ā·reḇ)
Article | Noun - masculine singular
Strong's Hebrew 6153: Evening

And when she beat out
וַתַּחְבֹּט֙ (wat·taḥ·bōṭ)
Conjunctive waw | Verb - Qal - Consecutive imperfect - third person feminine singular
Strong's Hebrew 2251: To beat off, beat out

what
אֲשֶׁר־ (’ă·šer-)
Pronoun - relative
Strong's Hebrew 834: Who, which, what, that, when, where, how, because, in order that

she had gleaned,
לִקֵּ֔טָה (liq·qê·ṭāh)
Verb - Piel - Perfect - third person feminine singular
Strong's Hebrew 3950: To pick up, to gather, to glean

it was
וַיְהִ֖י (way·hî)
Conjunctive waw | Verb - Qal - Consecutive imperfect - third person masculine singular
Strong's Hebrew 1961: To fall out, come to pass, become, be

about an ephah
כְּאֵיפָ֥ה (kə·’ê·p̄āh)
Preposition-k | Noun - feminine singular
Strong's Hebrew 374: Ephah -- an ephah (a measure of grain)

of barley.
שְׂעֹרִֽים׃ (śə·‘ō·rîm)
Noun - feminine plural
Strong's Hebrew 8184: Barley


Additional Translations
So Ruth gathered grain in the field until evening. And when she beat out what she had gleaned, it was about an ephah of barley.So she gleaned in the field until even, and beat out that she had gleaned: and it was about an ephah of barley.

So she gleaned in the field until even; and she beat out that which she had gleaned, and it was about an ephah of barley.

So she gleaned in the field till evening, and beat out that she had gleaned, and it was about an ephah of barely.

And she gleaned in the field until even, and beat out what she had gleaned; and it was about an ephah of barley.

So she gleaned in the field until even; and she beat out that she had gleaned, and it was about an ephah of barley.

So she gleaned in the field until evening, and beat out that which she had gleaned: and it was about an ephah of barley.

So she gleaned in the field until evening; and she beat out that which she had gleaned, and it was about an ephah of barley.

And she gleaneth in the field till the evening, and beateth out that which she hath gleaned, and it is about an ephah of barley;
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