Ruth Hamoaviyah / Ruth could have identified herself as Ruth haMoaviyah, as Ruth kallat Naomi or simply as Ruth; yet she prefers to evoke her responses to Bo’az in the field on that day, several months earlier, when they first met:
Then she said, Let me find favor in your sight, my lord; for you have comforted me, and spoken kindly to your maidservant, though I am not one of your maidservants. (2:13)
