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Hephzibah or Hepzibah (English: / ˈ h ɛ f z ɪ b ə / or / ˈ h ɛ p z ɪ b ə /; Hebrew: חֶפְצִי־בָהּ, romanized: Ḥep̄ṣi-ḇāh, lit. 'my delight (is) in her') is a minor figure in the Books of Kings in the Hebrew Bible.
According to some modern interpretations, Isaiah's wife was called "the prophetess", [14] either because she was endowed with the prophetic gift, like Deborah [15] and Huldah, [16] or simply because she was the "wife of the prophet".
Huldah (Hebrew: חֻלְדָּה Ḥuldā) is a prophetess mentioned in the Hebrew Bible in 2 Kings 22:14–20 and 2 Chronicles 34:22–28. After the discovery of a book of the Law during renovations at Solomon's Temple, on the order of King Josiah, Hilkiah together with Ahikam, Acbor, Shaphan and Asaiah approach her to seek the Lord's opinion.
Modern author Krista McGruder, a native of the Ozarks, entitled her 2003 collection of short stories "Beulah Land". [10] The final story in the collection is also titled "Beulah Land". Mary Lee Settle , National Book Award winner for Blood Ties , (Houghton Mifflin 1977), wrote a series of novels called the Beulah Quintet.
In the Book of Judges, it is stated that Deborah was a prophetess, a judge of Israel and the wife of Lapidoth. [5] [6] She rendered her judgments beneath a date palm tree between Ramah in Benjamin and Bethel in the land of Ephraim. [7] The people of Israel had been oppressed by Jabin, the king of Canaan, whose capital was Hazor, for twenty years.
The name is mentioned twice in the Hebrew Bible, both times in the Book of Isaiah chapter 8: [3] Isaiah 8:1. Moreover the L ORD said unto me, Take thee a great roll and write in it with a man's pen concerning Mahershalalhashbaz. [4] Isaiah 8:3. And I went unto the prophetess; and she conceived and bore a son.
A very influential portion of Isaiah was the four so-called Songs of the Suffering Servant from Isaiah 42, 49, 50 and 52, in which God calls upon his servant to lead the nations (the servant is horribly abused, sacrifices himself in accepting the punishment due others, and is finally rewarded).
Miriam was the daughter of Amram and Jochebed and the sister of Aaron and Moses, the leader of the Israelites in ancient Egypt. [7] The narrative of Moses's infancy in the Torah describes an unnamed sister of Moses observing him being placed in the Nile (); she is traditionally identified as Miriam.