Maya,
On the Biblehub website, it uses Strong's Exhaustive Concordance and Brown-Driver-Briggs Concordance. I think this helps you see that
Boaz's name probably does mean something like swift and strong since Jewish people today attribute it to mean strength, the root word also comes from swiftness/quickness and how
Boaz is the name for the pillar in front of the temple. It makes sense to how quickly
Boaz married
Ruth in the Bible. Once she pointed out how he was the Kinsmen Redeemer for their family, he got it settled in court that day! It's interesting that the pillar to the
Temple is named after him since a pillar holds something up and through him,
King David and
Jesus were born... very interesting!!!
~
Sherry Stahl
Brown-Driver-Briggs
בֹּ֫עַז proper name, masculine (quickness ?) —
1 kinsman of
Naomi, who married
Ruth Ruth 2:1,3,4,5,8,11,14,15,19,23;
Ruth 3:2,7;
Ruth 4:1 (twice in verse);
Ruth 4:5;
Ruth 4:8;
Ruth 4:9;
Ruth 4:13; also
Ruth 4:21 (twice in verse); 1 Chronicles 2:11,12 (ᵐ5 Βοος, Βοοζ).
2 name of the left hand of two pillars set up before temple (compare also יָכִין below כון) 1 Kings 7:21 2Chronicles 3:17; (meaning obscure; ᵑ0 apparently reference to 1, compare ᵑ72Chronicles 3:17; Thes supposes name of architect or donor; Ew perhaps sons of
Solomon, etc.; read possibly בְּעֹז in strength, ᵐ52Chronicles 3:17 ἰσχύς; Th thinks יכין בעז a sentence, one word being engraved on each pillar, he (God) establisheth in strength; against him, however, Ke Be; Öttli thinks an exclamation, in strength ! expressing satisfaction of architect; Klo proposes for בעז, בַּעַל עֹז (compare B 1 Kings 7:21 Βαλαζ)).
Strong's Exhaustive Concordance
BoazFrom an unused root of uncertain meaning;
Boaz, the ancestor of
David; also the name of a pillar in front of the temple --
Boaz.