Elimelech ("my God is king".) Of the family of Hezron of Judah, kinsman of Boaz, residing in Bethlehem Ephratah under the judges. In a famine he and his wife Naomi, with their two sons, went to Moab, where he and his sons died, and from whence Naomi returned a childless widow with Ruth. I (See tid=679; tid=3161; tid=2661)