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Hamutal
[People]Hamutal was the wife of King Josiah of Judah and the mother of Kings Jehoahaz and Zedekiah. She is identified as the daughter of Jeremiah of Libnah, and her name appears in the Bible only in the accession records of her two sons.
Dinah
[People]Dinah was the daughter of Jacob and Leah and the only daughter of Jacob named in the Bible. She is the central figure in the Shechem incident recorded in Genesis 34.
Mahlah
[People]Mahlah is the first named of the five daughters of Zelophehad of the tribe of Manasseh. Together with her sisters, she asked Moses to let them receive the inheritance of their father, who had died without sons.
Gomer
[People]Gomer was the wife of the prophet Hosea and appears in Hosea 1 as the daughter of Diblaim. The marriage of Hosea and Gomer serves as a symbol of the relationship between God and Israel.
Milcah
[People]Milcah is a woman in the Book of Genesis, the daughter of Haran and the wife of Nahor, Abraham's brother. She was the mother of Bethuel and the grandmother of Rebekah, the wife of Isaac.
Achsah
[People]Achsah is an Old Testament figure, the daughter of Caleb and the wife of Othniel, the first judge. She is known for asking her father for springs of water at the time of her marriage and receiving the upper and nether springs.
Hoglah
[People]Hoglah was one of the five daughters of Zelophehad of the tribe of Manasseh, who appear in the Old Testament books of Numbers and Joshua. Together with her sisters, she asked that daughters be allowed to inherit the land of their father, who had died without sons.
Jehoram (King of Judah)
[People]Jehoram was an Old Testament king of the southern kingdom of Judah, the son of Jehoshaphat and the husband of Athaliah, daughter of Ahab. His reign is recorded in 2 Kings 8 and 2 Chronicles 21.
Cozbi
[People]Cozbi was a Midianite woman mentioned in Numbers 25, the daughter of the Midianite chief Zur. During the Baal-peor incident, she was killed by Phinehas together with Zimri, a leader of the Israelite tribe of Simeon.
Shelah (Son of Judah)
[People]Shelah was the third son of Judah, the son of Jacob, by the daughter of Shua the Canaanite. After the deaths of his brothers Er and Onan, he was next in line to marry their widow, Tamar. Judah's failure to give him to Tamar sets in motion the narrative of Genesis 38.
Zebidah
[People]Zebidah was a wife of King Josiah of Judah and the mother of King Jehoiakim. She is named only once, in 2 Kings 23:36, where she is identified as the daughter of Pedaiah of Rumah.
Shechem (Son of Hamor)
[People]Shechem, the son of Hamor the Hivite and chief of the city of Shechem, appears in Genesis 34. After violating Dinah, the daughter of Jacob, he asked to take her as his wife and was killed by Simeon and Levi.
Oholibamah
[People]Oholibamah was a wife of Esau mentioned in Genesis 36. The daughter of Anah the Hivite, she bore three sons, Jeush, Jaalam, and Korah, who became chiefs of Edom.
Maachah
[People]Maachah was the wife of Rehoboam, king of Judah, and the mother of Abijah (Abijam). During the reign of King Asa, she was removed from her position as queen mother for making an abominable image for Asherah.
Nehushta
[People]Nehushta was the mother of Jehoiachin (Jeconiah), king of Judah, and the daughter of Elnathan of Jerusalem. In the early sixth century BC she was carried off to Babylon with her son in the first Babylonian deportation.
Sheerah
[People]Sheerah is a woman named in the genealogy of Ephraim in 1 Chronicles 7. She is recorded as the builder of Lower and Upper Beth-horon and Uzzen-sheerah, and she appears in only this one verse of the Bible.
Zipporah
[People]Zipporah, a figure in the Book of Exodus, was the daughter of Jethro, the priest of Midian, and the wife of Moses. She is known for circumcising her son on the way back to Egypt.
Drusilla
[People]Drusilla was a Jewish woman mentioned in Acts 24 and the wife of the Roman governor Felix. Together with her husband, she heard Paul speak about faith in Christ Jesus while he was held in custody at Caesarea.
Asenath
[People]Asenath was an Egyptian woman in Genesis, the daughter of Potipherah, priest of On. Pharaoh gave her to Joseph as his wife, and she became the mother of Manasseh and Ephraim.
Bithiah
[People]Bithiah is a woman mentioned once, as "the daughter of Pharaoh," in the genealogy of the tribe of Judah in 1 Chronicles 4. She was the wife of Mered. Jewish tradition sometimes identifies her with the daughter of Pharaoh who rescued the infant Moses.