Literary structure in Ruth

Ruth 1:8–Ruth 1:18

Book: Ruth
Showing: The strongest structural finding in Ruth (1 of 20 detected).

Findings

Kind: parallelism
Scope: passage
Book: Ruth
Range: Ruth 1:8–Ruth 1:18
Size: 11
Score: 0.258
P value: 0.01
Confidence: high
Confidence pct: 99.0
Placement: within
Chapter: 1

Units

Ref: Ruth 1:8

Ref: Ruth 1:9

Ref: Ruth 1:10

8 more

Ref: Ruth 1:11

Ref: Ruth 1:12

Ref: Ruth 1:13

Ref: Ruth 1:14

Ref: Ruth 1:15

Ref: Ruth 1:16

Ref: Ruth 1:17

Ref: Ruth 1:18

Matrix

121 measured values

—, 0.203, 0.208, 0.225, 0.147, 0.052, 0.0, 0.121, 0.156, 0.236, 0.077
0.203, —, 0.0, 0.059, 0.052, 0.097, 0.466, 0.0, 0.0, 0.066, 0.0
0.208, 0.0, —, 0.255, 0.224, 0.0, 0.0, 0.581, 0.447, 0.0, 0.0
0.225, 0.059, 0.255, —, 0.492, 0.185, 0.148, 0.148, 0.192, 0.0, 0.094
0.147, 0.052, 0.224, 0.492, —, 0.162, 0.0, 0.13, 0.168, 0.0, 0.083
0.052, 0.097, 0.0, 0.185, 0.162, —, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.062, 0.0
0.0, 0.466, 0.0, 0.148, 0.0, 0.0, —, 0.0, 0.075, 0.0, 0.0
0.121, 0.0, 0.581, 0.148, 0.13, 0.0, 0.0, —, 0.547, 0.0, 0.0
0.156, 0.0, 0.447, 0.192, 0.168, 0.0, 0.075, 0.547, —, 0.0, 0.088
0.236, 0.066, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.062, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0, —, 0.0
0.077, 0.0, 0.0, 0.094, 0.083, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.088, 0.0, —

Pairs

Index: 0
A: Ruth 1:8
B: Ruth 1:13
A pos: 0
B pos: 5
Score: 0.0519

Shared lemmas

Lemma: יהוה
Gloss: YHWH

Index: 1
A: Ruth 1:9
B: Ruth 1:14
A pos: 1
B pos: 6
Score: 0.4657

Shared lemmas

Lemma: נשׁק
Gloss: kiss

Lemma: בכה
Gloss: weep

Lemma: קול
Gloss: sound

Lemma: נשׂא
Gloss: lift

Index: 2
A: Ruth 1:10
B: Ruth 1:15
A pos: 2
B pos: 7
Score: 0.5807

Shared lemmas

Lemma: עם
Gloss: people

Lemma: שׁוב
Gloss: return

Lemma: אמר
Gloss: say

Index: 3
A: Ruth 1:11
B: Ruth 1:16
A pos: 3
B pos: 8
Score: 0.1919

Shared lemmas

Lemma: שׁוב
Gloss: return

Lemma: הלך
Gloss: walk

Lemma: אמר
Gloss: say

Method: deterministic · Detector: analysis/chiasm.py · Source ref: book_structure_map:Ruth · Captured at: 2026-08-09T01:30:51.480731+00:00