finished; complete; perfect
Hitchcock's Bible Names Dictionary
CHILION and Mahlon were the two sons of Elimelech and Naomi (Rth_1:1-2). They married women of the MoabitesMahlon marrying Ruth, and Chilion Orpah (Rth_4:10)and after a sojourn of ten years in Moabite territory died there. Chilion means wasting away. Mahlon means sickly. Neither of these names occurs elsewhere in the Bible. The two names occur in varying order in Rth_1:2; Rth_4:9, so that no conclusion can be drawn as to which was the elder.
Hastings' Dictionary of the Bible
Edited by James Hastings, D.D. Published in 1909
Orpah's husband, son of Elimelech and Naomi (Rth_1:2-5; Rth_4:9). An Ephrathite of Bethlehem Judah (formerly Ephrath, Gen_35:19).
Fausset's Bible Dictionary
By Andrew Robert Fausset, co-Author of Jamieson, Fausset and Brown's 1888.
kil?i-on (כּליון, kilyōn, ?pining,? ?wasting away?): One of the two sons of Elimelech and Naomi, ?Mahlon and Chilion, Ephrathites of Bethlehem-judah? (Rth_1:2). With his mother and brother he came into Moab and there both married Moabite women, Orpah being the name of Chilion's wife and Ruth that of the wife of Mahlon (Rth_4:9, Rth_4:10). Both died early and Orpah remained in Moab while Ruth accompanied Naomi back to Bethlehem. When Boaz married Ruth he ?bought all that was Elimelech's, and all that was Chilion's, and Mahlon's, of the hand of Naomi? (Rth_4:9).
International Standard Bible Encyclopedia
PRINTER 1915.
Chilion
(Hebrews Kilyon´, כַּלְיוֹן, pining; Sept. Χελεών v. r. Χελαιών), the younger son of Elimelech and Naomi of Bethlehem, and husband of Orpah, Ruth's sister; he died childless in the country of Moab (Rth_1:2; Rth_4:9). B.C. 1360.
CYCLOPEDIA OF BIBLICAL, THEOLOGICAL AND ECCLESIASTICAL
press 1895.