or.pah is the proper name of the woman identified alongside Ruth and shown bidding her mother-in-law farewell.

The supplied verses use the term as a proper name: in Ruth 1:4 it identifies one of the Moabite women married by the men, and in Ruth 1:14 it identifies the woman who kisses her mother-in-law goodbye while Ruth remains.

1. Personal name in the Ruth narrative · dominant

   The form is tagged as a proper noun in both occurrences. In Ruth 1:4 the APB renders the clause “the name of one was Orpah and the name of the other was Ruth”; in Ruth 1:14 it renders Orpah as the woman who “kissed her mother-in-law goodbye.”

   Ruth 1:4Ruth 1:14

In the Anselm Project Bible: The APB presents the term as “Orpah” in both verses: first in naming one of the women and then in narrating her farewell. It confirms the named-person reference rather than supplying a separate lexical rendering.