Ruth 4:20

And Amminadab begat Nahshon,.... The prince of the tribe of Judah, as the Targum adds; and so he was when the Israelites were come out of Egypt, and were in the wilderness at the time of the…

Amminadab begat Nahshon - The Targum adds, "And Nahshon was chief of the house of his father in the tribe of Judah."

Nahshon begat Salmon - In the Hebrew it is שלמה Salmah, which Houbigant thinks was…

Here is, I. Ruth a wife. Boaz took her, with the usual solemnities, to his house, and she became his wife (Rut 4:13), all the city, no doubt, congratulating the preferment of a virtuous woman, purely…

Nahshon i.e. serpent, a name belonging to the early period. This Nahshon son of Amminadab was a prince of Judah (Num 1:7; Num 2:3; Num 10:14) and a contemporary of Moses and Aaron (Exo 6:23),…