Ruth 4:15
Parallel Strong's
Berean Study Bible
He will renew your life and sustain you in your old age. For your daughter-in-law, who loves you and is better to you than seven sons, has given him birth.”

Young's Literal Translation
and he hath been to thee for a restorer of life, and for a nourisher of thine old age, for thy daughter-in-law who hath loved thee—who is better to thee than seven sons—hath borne him.’

King James Bible
And he shall be unto thee a restorer of [thy] life, and a nourisher of thine old age: for thy daughter in law, which loveth thee, which is better to thee than seven sons, hath born him.

Hebrew
He will renew
וְהָ֤יָה (wə·hā·yāh)
Conjunctive waw | Verb - Qal - Conjunctive perfect - third person masculine singular
Strong's 1961: To fall out, come to pass, become, be

your life
נֶ֔פֶשׁ (ne·p̄eš)
Noun - feminine singular
Strong's 5315: A soul, living being, life, self, person, desire, passion, appetite, emotion

and sustain you
וּלְכַלְכֵּ֖ל (ū·lə·ḵal·kêl)
Conjunctive waw, Preposition-l | Verb - Piel - Infinitive construct
Strong's 3557: To keep in, to measure, to maintain

in your old age.
שֵׂיבָתֵ֑ךְ (śê·ḇā·ṯêḵ)
Noun - feminine singular construct | second person feminine singular
Strong's 7872: Hoary head, old age

For
כִּ֣י (kî)
Conjunction
Strong's 3588: A relative conjunction

your daughter-in-law,
כַלָּתֵ֤ךְ (ḵal·lā·ṯêḵ)
Noun - feminine singular construct | second person feminine singular
Strong's 3618: Daughter-in-law, bride

who
אֲ‍ֽשֶׁר־ (’ăšer-)
Pronoun - relative
Strong's 834: Who, which, what, that, when, where, how, because, in order that

loves
אֲהֵבַ֙תֶךְ֙ (’ă·hê·ḇa·ṯeḵ)
Verb - Qal - Perfect - third person feminine singular | second person feminine singular
Strong's 157: To have affection f

you and is better
ט֣וֹבָה (ṭō·w·ḇāh)
Adjective - feminine singular
Strong's 2896: Pleasant, agreeable, good

to you than
לָ֔ךְ (lāḵ)
Preposition | second person feminine singular
Strong's Hebrew

seven
מִשִּׁבְעָ֖ה (miš·šiḇ·‘āh)
Preposition-m | Number - masculine singular
Strong's 7651: Seven, seven times, a week, an indefinite number

sons,
בָּנִֽים׃ (bā·nîm)
Noun - masculine plural
Strong's 1121: A son

has given him birth.”
יְלָדַ֔תּוּ (yə·lā·ḏat·tū)
Verb - Qal - Perfect - third person feminine singular | third person masculine singular
Strong's 3205: To bear young, to beget, medically, to act as midwife, to show lineage

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                           
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