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Simeon (Hebrew: שִׁמְעוֹן, Modern: Šīmʾōn, Tiberian: Šīmʾōn) [1] was the second of the six sons of Jacob and Leah, and the founder of the Israelite tribe, The Tribe of Simeon, according to the Book of Genesis of the Hebrew Bible.
Deborah #2 – Prophetess and the fourth, and the only female, Judge of pre–monarchic Israel in the Old Testament. Judges [41] Delilah – The "woman in the valley of Sorek" who Samson loved. Judges [42] Dinah – Daughter of Jacob, one of the patriarchs of the Israelites and Leah, his first wife. Genesis [43] Dorcas, also known as Tabitha ...
Anna (Hebrew: חַנָּה, Ḥana; Ancient Greek: Ἄννα, Ánna), distinguished as Anna the Prophetess, is a woman mentioned in the Gospel of Luke. According to that Gospel, she was an elderly woman of the Tribe of Asher who prophesied about Jesus at the Temple of Jerusalem .
The Bible is a collection of canonical sacred texts of Judaism and Christianity.Different religious groups include different books within their canons, in different orders, and sometimes divide or combine books, or incorporate additional material into canonical books.
A group of female theologians have written a religious text they're calling "A woman's Bible." Here's why they did it.
The zonah of the Hebrew Bible is a woman who is not under the authority of a man; she may be a paid prostitute, but not necessarily. In the Bible, for a woman or girl who was under the protection of a man to be called a "zonah" was a grave insult to her and her family.
Implying a derivation from the Hebrew term shama on, meaning "he has heard"; this is a similar etymology as the Torah gives for the theophoric name Ishmael ("God has heard"; Genesis 16:11), on the basis of which it has been argued that the tribe of Simeon may originally have been an Ishmaelite group (Cheyne and Black, Encyclopaedia Biblica).
Enrique Iglesias and Anna Kournikova mostly keep their three kids — Nicholas, Lucy and Mary — out of the spotlight, but the proud parents occasionally share adorable photos of the trio. The ...