BOARD (bard). Four Hebrew words are thus translated: 1. In Exod. xxvii:8; Ezck. xxvii:5 and else where, the word loo'akh, a tablet.
2. In Exod. xxvi:15, keh'resh, to split of like a board.
3. In t Kings vi:t 5, sed-ay-raw', a row, or set up in order.
4. In t Kings vi:15, isay-law', is rendered a rib, or a beam.
BOAT (hot). The following words in the orig inal are translated boat : 1. .-16-aw-raw' (lieb. a crossing place, so ferry boat (2 Sam. xix:18).
2. I'lay-ar'ee-on (Gr. 7rXotclptov), a little shed, a fishing smack (John ‘'i:22, 23).
3. Skafay (sr. anion), dreg out, a boat acting as tender to a larger vessel (Acts xxvii:16, 3o, 32).
BOAZ (Wax), (Itch. bo'az, perhaps alac rity).
1. A wealthy Be;h1chemite and near kinsman of the first husband of Ruth, whom he eventually espoused under the obligations of the Levirate law, which he willingly incurred (B. C. t36o).
The conduct of Boaz—his fine spirit, just feeling, piety, and amenity of manners—appcars to great advantage in the book of Ruth, and forms an in teresting portraiture of the condition and deport ment of what was in his time the upper class of Israelites. By his marriage with Ruth he became the father of °bed, from whom came Jesse. the father of David. He was thus one of the direct ancestors of Christ, and as such his name occurs in Matt. 1:5, hut it is difficult to assign his date. (See Ruiii ; GENEALOGY.) Late Jewish tradition, without any probability, identifies him with the judge, Ilnan.
2. The name given to one of the two braren pillars which Solomon erected in the court of the temple Kings vii:t 5, 21; 2 Chron. Jer.
lii:21). (Sec JAcitts, 2.)