Ruth, Tamar, and Rahab
You add another "great" for each generation back in history. So the mother of your great great great grandmother is your great great great great grandmother.
You grandmother's father is your great grandfather and his wife (your grandmother's mother) is your great grandmother.
Your great grandmother's sister is your great-great-aunt.
The English language does not include a relationship called "great mother." It has terms "grandmother" (the mother of your father or of your mother) and great grandmother (the mother of one of your grandparents. The sister of your grandmother is your great aunt. The sister of your great grandmother is your great great aunt.
Salmon was his great great grandfather. And Rahab was his great great grandmother. It says that in Matthew 1:5-6. The geneolagy of Jesus Christ. Matthew 1:1-something.
Rahab is traditionally believed to be Jesus' great-great grandmother, not his grandmother. She is described as a harlot in the Bible and is known for her courage and faith in helping the Israelite spies during the conquest of Jericho.
Rahab was a prostitute who hid the spies sent by Israel to spy out Jericho so that they would not be killed. She hid them during a search made of her house and then let them down out her window outside the city wall so they could escape. She and her family were granted immunity when it came to Israel destroying the city of Jericho. She was remembered throughout history as having been a friend to Israel. She was also David's great-great grandmother.
Sexual.Solomons relationship to rahab was very sexual, jesus did not like this so he sent solomon to hell.True story.
Because depending on which biblical scripture you believe, Salome was either: Jesus's aunt OR Jesus's sister. I know because Salome was my great great great (x80) grandmother.
No. Rahab is not the mother-in-law of Ruth according to Matthew 1:5 in the NIV Bible. In that verse, Rahab is mentioned as the mother of Boaz, and Ruth is identified as Boaz's wife. Ruth is the great-grandmother of King David.
Without going into all the "great-great-greats" that it would take to put it in modern terms, Ruth was the great-grandmother of David (Ruth 4:13-17), making her a grandmother of Jesus a little over 40 generations removed.
Yes Ruth and Boaz were related to Jesus.Ruth is the great, great grandmother of David.
In the Bible, her name was 'Rahab'. At Joshua chapters 2 through 6, Rahab was instrumental in helping the Israelites in their conquest of Jericho. She hid the two spies that Joshua had sent to spy out the land. And yes, she is the same Rahab mentioned in the lineage of Jesus Christ. Interestingly, Rahab and Bath-sheba were the not Israelite women, but they purified themselves and became Hebrew by marriage. Jesus' earthly mother Mary was the only Jewish woman mentioned in the Bible as an ancestress.
In the genealogy of Jesus which is in Matthew 1.
Your grandmother's grandmother is your great-great-grandmother.
Your great grandmother's mother is your great great grandmother.