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Hamutal – Wife of Josiah and mother of "ungodly" sons Jehoahaz and Mattaniah. II Kings, Jeremiah [61] [62] Hannah – A worshipper at Jerusalem. Mother of Samuel. I Samuel [63] Hazzelelponi – daughter of Etam, tribe of Judah I Chronicles [64] Helah – I Chronicles [65] Hephziba – Wife of King Hezekiah and mother of Manasseh, who undid ...
Women in the Bible are wives, mothers and daughters, servants, slaves and prostitutes. As both victors and victims, some women in the Bible change the course of important events while others are powerless to affect even their destinies.
The wives aboard Noah's Ark were part of the family that survived the Deluge in the biblical Genesis flood narrative from the Bible. These wives are the wife of Noah, and the wives of each of his three sons. Although the Bible only notes the existence of these women, there are extra-biblical mentions regarding them and their names.
The pseudepigraphical Book of Jubilees provides names for a host of otherwise unnamed biblical characters, including wives for most of the antediluvian patriarchs. The last of these is Noah's wife, to whom it gives the name of Emzara. Other Jewish traditional sources contain many different names for Noah's wife.
Rebekah, the wife of Isaac; Leah and Rachel, the wives of Jacob; Secondary matriarchs: Some Jewish sources list Bilhah and Zilpah (Jacob's concubines) as additional matriarchs, for a total of six matriarchs. [11] [12] Other sources also include an emphasis on Tamar (the daughter-in-law of Judah) and Asenath (Osnat) (the wife of Joseph). [13]
List of minor Hebrew Bible figures, L–Z; List of names for the biblical nameless; A. ... Wives aboard Noah's Ark; Women at the crucifixion; List of women in the Bible
Leah was Jacob's first wife, and the older sister of his second (and favored) wife Rachel. She is the mother of Jacob's first son Reuben . She has three more sons, namely Simeon , Levi and Judah , but does not bear another son until Rachel offers her a night with Jacob in exchange for some mandrake root ( דודאים , dûdâ'îm ).
The novels in this series are centred on the wives of the Biblical Patriarchs of the Book of Genesis. As of December 2024, three books have been published, and the fourth and fifth books in the series are currently listed as works in progress on Card's website.