Komentaryo sa Ruth 3:16: Tze'enah Ure'enah & Ibn Ezra

“And she came to her mother-in-law” [3:16]. She came to her mother-in-law and she [Naomi] said: who are you my daughter? She told her what the man did for her and she said, he gave me these six measures of barley and he said to me that I should not come empty-handed to my mother-in-law. Some ask about this verse. Why does her mother-in-law ask Ruth, who are you? Did she not know her own daughter-in-law, since it was already daylight? However, the sages say that she asked, are you still a widow or not? Did you spend the night with a man? Who are you?⁶⁹Ruth Rabbah, 7.4.

"Who are you, my daughter?" It is possible that she didn't see her until she opened the door for her to enter, as is customary. The scripture abbreviates it to say 'I am Ruth, your daughter'. Similar to 'they called him and he ate bread', and it's written 'and Moses agreed'. Rabbi Jonah the grammarian says, 'מי' means 'what', and the meaning is 'what happened to you'. He told me that it is similar to 'What is your name?' (Judges 13:17), because the use of 'מי' in such a context is not found with a human. In my opinion, 'שמך' (your name) is a proper noun, and therefore 'מי' relates to the context.

"What the man did to her. The oath."