Dict: smith - NAOMI

smith:

NAOMI - N>@ - or Nao’mi (my delight), the wife of Elimelech and mother-in-law of Ruth. kjv@Ruth:1:2) etc.; kjv@Ruth:2:1 etc.; kjv@Ruth:3:1 kjv@Ruth:4:3 etc. (B.C. 1363.) The name is derived from a root signifying sweetness or pleasantness. Naomi left Judea with her husband and two sons, in a time of famine and went to the land of Moab. Here her husband and sons died; and on her return to Bethlehem she wished to be known as Mara, bitterness , instead of Naomi, sweetness.