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Zillah
[People]Zillah is a woman mentioned in Genesis 4. She was one of the two wives of Lamech, a descendant of Cain, and the mother of Tubal-cain and Naamah.
Oretha Rooker
[People]Oretha Rooker (1918–2007) was the wife of the American charismatic preacher Kenneth Hagin. During roughly sixty-five years of marriage, she is known to have worked alongside her husband in the Word of Faith movement and in the ministry of Rhema Bible Training Center.
Lo-ruhamah
[People]Lo-ruhamah was the daughter of the prophet Hosea and his wife Gomer and appears in Hosea 1. Her name means "not having obtained mercy" and symbolizes God's judgment that He would no longer have mercy on the northern kingdom of Israel.
Lo-ammi
[People]Lo-ammi was the third child, a son, born to the prophet Hosea and his wife Gomer. His name means "not my people" in Hebrew. A symbolic name expressing the broken relationship between God and the northern kingdom of Israel, it appears in Hosea 1.
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.
Dibri
[People]Dibri is a man of the tribe of Dan who is named once in the Old Testament, in the book of Leviticus. His daughter Shelomith was the mother of the man who blasphemed the name of God in the wilderness and was stoned to death.
Merab
[People]Merab was the elder daughter of Saul, the first king of Israel. An Old Testament figure, she was promised to David as his wife but was instead given in marriage to Adriel the Meholathite. Her younger sister was Michal, who became David's wife.
Tamar (Daughter of David)
[People]Tamar was the daughter of King David and Maacah, the daughter of Talmai king of Geshur, and the full sister of Absalom. Her rape by her half-brother Amnon is recorded in 2 Samuel 13.
Rizpah
[People]Rizpah was the daughter of Aiah and a concubine of King Saul. She is known from 2 Samuel 21 for guarding the bodies of her two executed sons and of Saul's grandsons from the beginning of harvest until rain fell.
Numbers 30
[Bible]Numbers 30 is a law concerning vows and oaths. It states the principle that a vow must be kept as spoken. It also provides that a father or husband may annul a vow made by a daughter in his house or by a wife on the day he hears of it.
Bilhah
[People]Bilhah was Rachel's handmaid in the Book of Genesis and a wife (concubine) of Jacob. She bore Dan and Naphtali, the ancestors of the tribes of Dan and Naphtali among the twelve tribes of Israel.
Basemath
[People]Basemath is a wife of Esau in the Book of Genesis who, through her son Reuel, became an ancestor of the chiefs of Edom. Genesis 26 and Genesis 36 give differing accounts of her origin. The First Book of Kings mentions a daughter of Solomon who bore the same name.
Mahalath
[People]Mahalath is the name of two women in the Old Testament. It most often refers to the wife of Rehoboam, king of Judah, who was a granddaughter of David (2 Chronicles 11:18). A second woman of the same name was a daughter of Ishmael who became the wife of Esau (Genesis 28:9).
Luke 8
[Bible]Luke 8 is the chapter in which Jesus travels through the region of Galilee proclaiming the kingdom of God. He teaches the parable of the sower, calms a storm, heals a demon-possessed man and a woman with an issue of blood, and raises the daughter of Jairus.
Miriam
[People]Miriam was the sister of Moses and Aaron and a prophetess who, according to Exodus, took up a timbrel and sang with the women after the crossing of the Red Sea. Numbers records that she was struck with a skin disease after speaking against Moses, and that she died at Kadesh.
Reuel (son of Esau)
[People]Reuel was a son of Esau and his wife Bashemath. He appears in the genealogies of Esau in Genesis 36 and 1 Chronicles 1, and his four sons became chiefs in the land of Edom.
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.
Othniel
[People]Othniel is the first judge in the Old Testament Book of Judges. The son of Kenaz and a member of Caleb's family, he delivered Israel from Cushan-rishathaim, king of Mesopotamia.
Amasa
[People]Amasa was a military commander in the time of David. He commanded Absalom's army during Absalom's rebellion and was later appointed commander by David, but he was killed by his cousin Joab.
Moon Dong-hwan
[People]Moon Dong-hwan (1921–2019) was a minister of the Presbyterian Church in the Republic of Korea and a theologian of Christian education. He taught at Hankuk Theological Seminary, was imprisoned for his role in the democracy movement, and served as a member of the 13th National Assembly.