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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".
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.
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.
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.
Then I went to the prophetess, and she conceived and bore a son. Then the Lord said to me, "Call his name Maher-Shalal-Hash-Baz"; [7] The striking similarity with Isaiah 7:14-15 raises an argument that this is a variant version of the same story, but 'the heavily symbolic name given to the unsuspecting child has markedly different overtone'. [8]
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.
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McLaughlin argues that Matthew recognizes that the prophecy Isaiah gave to King Ahaz in the referenced Old Testament passage concerned a virgin living at that time (namely, Isaiah's wife) and a child (namely, Maher-Shalal-Hash-Baz), who was born as a sign to Ahaz , and he argues that Matthew saw the act of salvation of which Maher-Shalal-Hash ...