Zeruiah and Abigail
״and Jesse begot his first-born Eliab, and Abinadab the second ...David the seventh.nd their sisters were Zeruiah and Abigail״ 1 Chronicles, ch 2 v 16.
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Two stork wing women
"Then lifted I up mine eyes, and saw, and, behold, there came forth two women, and the wind was in their wings; for they had wings like the wings of a stork" Zechariah 5 9
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The mother of Abraham, Amatlai, daughter of Karnevo
"And moreover she is indeed my sister, the daughter of my father, but not the daughter of my mother; and so she became my wife." Genesis 20:12
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The ordeal of the bitter water / The law of the sotah
"And the priest shall set the woman before the LORD, and let the hair of the woman's head go loose, and put the meal-offering of memorial in her hands, which is the meal-offering of jealousy; and the priest shall have in his hand the water of bitterness that causeth the curse.” Numbers 5 18
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Nitzevet bat Adael King David’s mother
"And David went thence to Mizpeh of Moab; and he said unto the king of Moab: 'Let my father and my mother, I pray thee, come forth, and be with you, till I know what God will do for me.'” 1 Samuel Chapter 22 3
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The wise woman of Abel Beth-Maacah
״Then the woman went unto all the people in her wisdom. And they cut off the head of Sheba the son of Bichri, and threw it out to Joab. And he blew the horn, and they were dispersed from the city, every man to his tent. And Joab returned to Jerusalem unto the king.״
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Shelomith, the daughter of Dibri
״And the son of the Israelitish woman blasphemed the Name, and cursed; and they brought him unto Moses. And his mother's name was Shelomith, the daughter of Dibri, of the tribe of Dan. ״ Leviticus 24 11
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Hamutal, Zebudah and Nehushta
״Jehoiakim was twenty and five years old when he began to reign; and he reigned eleven years in Jerusalem; and his mother's name was Zebudah the daughter of Pedaiah of Rumah.״ Kings II 23 36
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Rehoboam’s wives
“So they strengthened the kingdom of Judah, and made Rehoboam the son of Solomon strong, three years; for they walked three years in the way of David and Solomon.; And Rehoboam took him a wife, Mahalath the daughter of Jerimoth the son of David, and of Abihail the daughter of Eliab the son of Jesse;” 2 Chronicles Chapter 11
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Pharaoh’s daughter – Solomon’s wife
And Solomon became allied to Pharaoh king of Egypt by marriage, and took Pharaoh's daughter, and brought her into the city of David, until he had made an end of building his own house, and the house of the LORD, and the wall of Jerusalem round about." kings 1, 3 1
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Ephrath and Azubah
Ephrath and Azubah And Caleb the son of Hezron begot children of Azubah his wife--and of Jerioth--and these were her sons: Jesher, and Shobab, and Ardon.And Azubah died, and Caleb took unto him Ephrath, who bore him Hur. And Hur begot Uri, and Uri begot Bezalel.״ 18-20 Chronicles 1, 2
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Sheshan’s daughter
"Now Sheshan had no sons, but daughters. And Sheshan had a servant, an Egyptian, whose name was Jarha.So Sheshan gave his daughter to Jarha his servant to wife" 1 Chronicles, 2 34-35
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Manoah’s Wife, Hazzelelponi
"and the angel of God came again unto the woman as she sat in the field; but Manoah her husband was not with her." Judges 13, 9
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Bilhah & Zilpah
"and the sons of Bilhah, Rachel's handmaid: Dan and Naphtali; and the sons of Zilpah, Leah's handmaid: Gad and Asher. " Genesis 35 25-26
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Esau Wives
'Esau took his wives of the daughters of Canaan; Adah the daughter of Elon the Hittite, and Oholibamah the daughter of Anah, the daughter of Zibeon the Hivite, and Basemath Ishmael's daughter, sister of Nebaioth.' Genesis 36, 2-3
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Huldah the prophetess
‘So Hilkiah the priest, and Ahikam, and Achbor, and Shaphan, and Asaiah, went unto Huldah the prophetess, the wife of Shallum the son of Tikvah, the son of Harhas, keeper of the wardrobe’ kings 2, 22, 14
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Vashti
'But the queen Vashti refused to come at the king's commandment by the chamberlains'
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Zeresh
"'If Mordecai, before whom thou hast begun to fall, be of the seed of the Jews, thou shalt not prevail against him, but shalt surely fall before him.' " Esther 6 13
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The priest of Midian’s seven daughters
The priest of Midian's seven daughters " Now the priest of Midian had seven daughters; and they came and drew water, and filled the troughs to water their father's flock. Exodus 2, 16
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Zeruah
"And Jeroboam the son of Nebat, an Ephraimite of Zeredah, a servant of Solomon, whose mother's name was Zeruah, a widow" Kings 1, 11, 26
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Woman of Shunem
"Then she saddled an ass, and said to her servant: 'Drive, and go forward; slacken me not the riding, except I bid thee.'״ Kings ||, 4 24
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Deborah, the Nurse of Rebecca
And Deborah Rebekah's nurse died, and she was buried below Beth-el under the oak; and the name of it was called Allon-bacuth" Genesis 35, 8
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Shaharaim’s wives
"And Shaharaim begot children in the field of Moab, after he had sent them away, to wit, Hushim and Baara his wives;he begot of Hodesh his wife, Jobab, and Zibia, and Mesha, and Malcam"
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Noah’s Sons’ Wives
'Go forth from the ark, thou, and thy wife, and thy sons, and thy sons' wives with thee... and be fruitful, and multiply upon the earth.' Genesis, 8, 16-17
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Taphath & Basemath
"The son of Abinadab, in all the region of Dor; he had Taphath the daughter of Solomon to wife... Ahimaaz, in Naphtali; he also took Basemath the daughter of Solomon to wife;" kings 1, 4, 11, 15
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Abishag
"Now king David was old and stricken in years; and they covered him with clothes, but he could get no heat" kings 1,1 1
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Sisera’s Mother
" 'Why is his chariot so long in coming? Why tarry the wheels of his chariots?" Judges 5, 28-30
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Elisheba
״And Nadab and Abihu, the sons of Aaron, took each of them his censer, and put fire therein, and laid incense thereon, and offered strange fire before the LORD, which He had not commanded them; And there came forth fire from before the LORD, and devoured them, and they died before the LORD"
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Wife of Jeroboam
"And Jeroboam said to his wife: 'Arise, I pray thee, and disguise thyself, that thou be not known to be the wife of Jeroboam; and get thee to Shiloh; behold, there is Ahijah the prophet; And take with thee ten loaves, and biscuits, and a cruse of honey, and go to him; he will tell thee what shall become of the child." kings 1 14 2-3
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Delilah
״How canst thou say: I love thee, when thy heart is not with me? thou hast mocked me these three times, and hast not told me wherein thy great strength lieth״ Judges, 16, 15
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The Wives of the Sons of the Prophets
״And thou shalt go in, and shut the door upon thee and upon thy sons, and pour out into all those vessels; and thou shalt set aside that which is full.' ״ Kings 2 4, 4
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Little maid and Naaman’s wife
"And the Arameans had gone out in bands, and had brought away captive out of the land of Israel a little maid; and she waited on Naaman's wife. And she said unto her mistress: 'Would that my lord were with the prophet that is in Samaria! then would he recover him of his leprosy.' " kings 2, 5 2-3
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Witch of Endor
״And when the woman saw Samuel, she cried with a loud voice; and the woman spoke to Saul, saying: 'Why hast thou deceived me? for thou art Saul.' ״ Samuel 1 28, 12
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The Wise Woman of Tekoa
״I pray thee, feign thyself to be a mourner, and put on mourning apparel, I pray thee, and anoint not thyself with oil, but be as a woman that had a long time mourned for the dead; and go in to the king, and speak on this manner unto him." Samuel 2' 14, 2-3
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The Woman of Thebez
״And a certain woman cast an upper millstone upon Abimelech's head, and broke his skull. Then he called hastily unto the young man his armour-bearer, and said unto him: 'Draw thy sword, and kill me, that men say not of me: A woman slew him.'״ judges 9, 53-54
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Maacah the daughter of Talmai king of Geshur – David’s Wife
״and the third, Absalom the son of Maacah the daughter of Talmai king of Geshur״ Samuel 2 3, 3
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Cozbi
״And, behold, one of the children of Israel came and brought unto his brethren a Midianitish woman in the sight of Moses, and in the sight of all the congregation of the children of Israel״ Numbers 25 6
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Ezekiel’s Wife
״'Son of man, behold, I take away from thee the desire of thine eyes with a stroke; yet neither shalt thou make lamentation nor weep, neither shall thy tears run down. ״ Ezekiel 24, 16
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Tahpenes
"And the sister of Tahpenes bore him Genubath his son, whom Tahpenes weaned in Pharaoh's house; and Genubath was in Pharaoh's house among the sons of Pharaoh. " Kings A 11, 20
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Judgement of Solomon
״Then the king answered and said: 'Give her the living child, and in no wise slay it: she is the mother thereof.'״ Kings A 3, 27
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Ruth
"for whither thou goest, I will go; and where thou lodgest, I will lodge; thy people shall be my people, and thy God my God" Ruth 1:16
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The daughters of Zelophehad
'Why should the name of our father be done away from among his family, because he had no son? Give unto us a possession among the brethren of our father.' Numbers 27, 4
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״and Jesse begot his first-born Eliab, and Abinadab the second …David the seventh.nd their sisters were Zeruiah and Abigail״ 1 Chronicles, ch 2 v 16.
Two stork wing women
“Then lifted I up mine eyes, and saw, and, behold, there came forth two women, and the wind was in their wings; for they had wings like the wings of a stork” Zechariah 5 9
The mother of Abraham, Amatlai, daughter of Karnevo
“And moreover she is indeed my sister, the daughter of my father, but not the daughter of my mother; and so she became my wife.” Genesis 20:12
The ordeal of the bitter water / The law of the sotah
“And the priest shall set the woman before the LORD, and let the hair of the woman’s head go loose, and put the meal-offering of memorial in her hands, which is the meal-offering of jealousy; and the priest shall have in his hand the water of bitterness that causeth the curse.” Numbers 5 18
Nitzevet bat Adael King David’s mother
“And David went thence to Mizpeh of Moab; and he said unto the king of Moab: ‘Let my father and my mother, I pray thee, come forth, and be with you, till I know what God will do for me.’” 1 Samuel Chapter 22 3
The wise woman of Abel Beth-Maacah
״Then the woman went unto all the people in her wisdom. And they cut off the head of Sheba the son of Bichri, and threw it out to Joab. And he blew the horn, and they were dispersed from the city, every man to his tent. And Joab returned to Jerusalem unto the king.״
Shelomith, the daughter of Dibri
״And the son of the Israelitish woman blasphemed the Name, and cursed; and they brought him unto Moses. And his mother’s name was Shelomith, the daughter of Dibri, of the tribe of Dan. ״ Leviticus 24 11
״Jehoiakim was twenty and five years old when he began to reign; and he reigned eleven years in Jerusalem; and his mother’s name was Zebudah the daughter of Pedaiah of Rumah.״ Kings II 23 36
“So they strengthened the kingdom of Judah, and made Rehoboam the son of Solomon strong, three years; for they walked three years in the way of David and Solomon.; And Rehoboam took him a wife, Mahalath the daughter of Jerimoth the son of David, and of Abihail the daughter of Eliab the son of Jesse;” 2 Chronicles Chapter 11
Pharaoh’s daughter – Solomon’s wife
And Solomon became allied to Pharaoh king of Egypt by marriage, and took Pharaoh’s daughter, and brought her into the city of David, until he had made an end of building his own house, and the house of the LORD, and the wall of Jerusalem round about.” kings 1, 3 1
Ephrath and Azubah And Caleb the son of Hezron begot children of Azubah his wife–and of Jerioth–and these were her sons: Jesher, and Shobab, and Ardon.And Azubah died, and Caleb took unto him Ephrath, who bore him Hur. And Hur begot Uri, and Uri begot Bezalel.״ 18-20 Chronicles 1, 2
Sheshan’s daughter
“Now Sheshan had no sons, but daughters. And Sheshan had a servant, an Egyptian, whose name was Jarha.So Sheshan gave his daughter to Jarha his servant to wife” 1 Chronicles, 2 34-35
Manoah’s Wife, Hazzelelponi
“and the angel of God came again unto the woman as she sat in the field; but Manoah her husband was not with her.” Judges 13, 9
“and the sons of Bilhah, Rachel’s handmaid: Dan and Naphtali; and the sons of Zilpah, Leah’s handmaid: Gad and Asher. ” Genesis 35 25-26
‘Esau took his wives of the daughters of Canaan; Adah the daughter of Elon the Hittite, and Oholibamah the daughter of Anah, the daughter of Zibeon the Hivite, and Basemath Ishmael’s daughter, sister of Nebaioth.’ Genesis 36, 2-3
Huldah the prophetess
‘So Hilkiah the priest, and Ahikam, and Achbor, and Shaphan, and Asaiah, went unto Huldah the prophetess, the wife of Shallum the son of Tikvah, the son of Harhas, keeper of the wardrobe’ kings 2, 22, 14
Vashti
‘But the queen Vashti refused to come at the king’s commandment by the chamberlains’
Zeresh
“‘If Mordecai, before whom thou hast begun to fall, be of the seed of the Jews, thou shalt not prevail against him, but shalt surely fall before him.’ ” Esther 6 13
The priest of Midian’s seven daughters
The priest of Midian’s seven daughters ” Now the priest of Midian had seven daughters; and they came and drew water, and filled the troughs to water their father’s flock. Exodus 2, 16
Zeruah
“And Jeroboam the son of Nebat, an Ephraimite of Zeredah, a servant of Solomon, whose mother’s name was Zeruah, a widow” Kings 1, 11, 26
Woman of Shunem
“Then she saddled an ass, and said to her servant: ‘Drive, and go forward; slacken me not the riding, except I bid thee.’״ Kings ||, 4 24
Deborah, the Nurse of Rebecca
And Deborah Rebekah’s nurse died, and she was buried below Beth-el under the oak; and the name of it was called Allon-bacuth” Genesis 35, 8
“And Shaharaim begot children in the field of Moab, after he had sent them away, to wit, Hushim and Baara his wives;he begot of Hodesh his wife, Jobab, and Zibia, and Mesha, and Malcam”
Noah’s Sons’ Wives
‘Go forth from the ark, thou, and thy wife, and thy sons, and thy sons’ wives with thee… and be fruitful, and multiply upon the earth.’ Genesis, 8, 16-17
“The son of Abinadab, in all the region of Dor; he had Taphath the daughter of Solomon to wife… Ahimaaz, in Naphtali; he also took Basemath the daughter of Solomon to wife;” kings 1, 4, 11, 15
Abishag
“Now king David was old and stricken in years; and they covered him with clothes, but he could get no heat” kings 1,1 1
Sisera’s Mother
” ‘Why is his chariot so long in coming? Why tarry the wheels of his chariots?” Judges 5, 28-30
Elisheba
״And Nadab and Abihu, the sons of Aaron, took each of them his censer, and put fire therein, and laid incense thereon, and offered strange fire before the LORD, which He had not commanded them; And there came forth fire from before the LORD, and devoured them, and they died before the LORD”
Wife of Jeroboam
“And Jeroboam said to his wife: ‘Arise, I pray thee, and disguise thyself, that thou be not known to be the wife of Jeroboam; and get thee to Shiloh; behold, there is Ahijah the prophet; And take with thee ten loaves, and biscuits, and a cruse of honey, and go to him; he will tell thee what shall become of the child.” kings 1 14 2-3
Delilah
״How canst thou say: I love thee, when thy heart is not with me? thou hast mocked me these three times, and hast not told me wherein thy great strength lieth״ Judges, 16, 15
The Wives of the Sons of the Prophets
״And thou shalt go in, and shut the door upon thee and upon thy sons, and pour out into all those vessels; and thou shalt set aside that which is full.’ ״ Kings 2 4, 4
Little maid and Naaman’s wife
“And the Arameans had gone out in bands, and had brought away captive out of the land of Israel a little maid; and she waited on Naaman’s wife. And she said unto her mistress: ‘Would that my lord were with the prophet that is in Samaria! then would he recover him of his leprosy.’ ” kings 2, 5 2-3
Witch of Endor
״And when the woman saw Samuel, she cried with a loud voice; and the woman spoke to Saul, saying: ‘Why hast thou deceived me? for thou art Saul.’ ״ Samuel 1 28, 12
The Wise Woman of Tekoa
״I pray thee, feign thyself to be a mourner, and put on mourning apparel, I pray thee, and anoint not thyself with oil, but be as a woman that had a long time mourned for the dead; and go in to the king, and speak on this manner unto him.” Samuel 2′ 14, 2-3
The Woman of Thebez
״And a certain woman cast an upper millstone upon Abimelech’s head, and broke his skull. Then he called hastily unto the young man his armour-bearer, and said unto him: ‘Draw thy sword, and kill me, that men say not of me: A woman slew him.’״ judges 9, 53-54
Maacah the daughter of Talmai king of Geshur – David’s Wife
״and the third, Absalom the son of Maacah the daughter of Talmai king of Geshur״ Samuel 2 3, 3
Cozbi
״And, behold, one of the children of Israel came and brought unto his brethren a Midianitish woman in the sight of Moses, and in the sight of all the congregation of the children of Israel״ Numbers 25 6
Ezekiel’s Wife
״’Son of man, behold, I take away from thee the desire of thine eyes with a stroke; yet neither shalt thou make lamentation nor weep, neither shall thy tears run down. ״ Ezekiel 24, 16
Tahpenes
“And the sister of Tahpenes bore him Genubath his son, whom Tahpenes weaned in Pharaoh’s house; and Genubath was in Pharaoh’s house among the sons of Pharaoh. ” Kings A 11, 20
Judgement of Solomon
״Then the king answered and said: ‘Give her the living child, and in no wise slay it: she is the mother thereof.’״ Kings A 3, 27
Ruth
“for whither thou goest, I will go; and where thou lodgest, I will lodge; thy people shall be my people, and thy God my God” Ruth 1:16
‘Why should the name of our father be done away from among his family, because he had no son? Give unto us a possession among the brethren of our father.’ Numbers 27, 4