82 — Person: Ruth

Number: 82

Person: Ruth

Action: Gleaning in Boaz's field (where you go I will go)

Object: Grain / cloak

Scripture connection: Ruth 2:2–3 — And Ruth the Moabite said to Naomi, "Let me go to the field and glean among the ears of grain after him in whose sight I shall find favor." … So she set out and went and gleaned in the field after the reapers. Ruth 3:9 — "Spread your wings over your servant."

Memory hook: 82 = Chet-Bet = fence + house; Ruth 2. Ruth in the field — the number 82 is the foreigner who became the grandmother of David.

Why this number? 82 = Chet-Bet = fence + house; Ruth 2. Ruth gleaned in Boaz's field; the number 82 ties her to the Hebrew letters and the grain.