Wednesday, February 27, 2008

Women in the Bible

Ishah. That is what Adam called her. Then Eve.
Eve's daughters
Cain's wife
Enoch's wife
Irad's wife
Mehujael's wife
Methushael's wife
Adah
Zillah
Jabal's wife
Naamah (sister of Tubal-cain)
Tubal-cain's wife

Seth's wife
Enosh's wife
Kenan's wife
Mahalalel's wife
Jared's wife
Enoch's wife
Methuselah's wife
Lamech's wife
Noah's wife
Mrs. Shem
Mrs. Ham
Mrs. Japheth

Mrs. Gomer plus three sons' wives
Mrs. Magog
Mrs. Madai
Mrs. Javan plus four sons' wives
Mrs. Tubal
Mrs. Meshech
Mrs. Tiras

Mrs. Cush plus five
Mrs. Nimrod
Mrs. Mizrim plus seven
Mrs. Put
Mrs. Caanan plus eleven

Mrs. Elam
Mrs. Asshur
Mrs. Arphachashad
Mrs. Lud
Mrs. Aram plus four

Mrs. Shelah
Mrs. Eber
Mrs. Peleg
Mrs. Reu
Mrs. Serug
Mrs. Nahor
Mrs. Terah
Mrs. Nahor
Mrs. Haran

Sarai/Sarah
Milcah (also Mrs. Nahor)
Hagar
Rebekah
Deborah (Rebekah's nurse)
Keturah
Judith
Basemath
Oholibamah
women rescued with Lot in Genesis 14:16
Lot's two daughters
Mahalath
Mehetabel
Matred
Cozby
Rachel
Zilpah
Leah
Bilhah
Dinah
Timna
Shua
Tamar
Potipher's wife
Asenath
Serah
Shiprah
Puah
Jocobed
Miriam
Pharoah's daughter
Canaanite woman of Gen. 46:40 and Ex. 6:15
Shelomith
Elishaeba
Aaron's daugher-in-law Genesis 6:25, mom who names Ichabod
Zipporah
and her six sisters
Cushite woman Numbers 12
Mahlah
Noah (yes, its a woman) Numbers 26, 27, 36
Hoglah
Milcah
Tizrah
Rahab
Keturah Joshua's daughter Joshua 7:24
Daughter of Manesseh
Achsah
Azubah
Caleb's daughter
Deborah
Jael (armed with a tent peg and fermented yogurt)
Gideon's many wives (70 sons)
Jephthah's mom, the harlot
Jephthah's daughter
Mrs. Manoah
Samson's first wife
Delilah
woman who threw the millstone
Gilead's wife Jug. 11
Levite's concubine Jugd. 10 and 20
Ruth
Naomi
Orpah
women who encouraged Naomi
Peninnah
Hannah
women who served I Sam. 2:22
Eli's daughter in law
400 virgins of Judges 20 and 21
dancing daughters of Shiloh
Saul's daughter, Merab
Michal
Saul's wife
Rizpah 2 Sam. 21
captured women of 1 Sam. 30:2
woman who hid Jonathan and A
wise woman of 2 Sam. 10:16, 22
cannibal woman of 2 Kings 6:26-30
Abigail
medium of Endor
Ahinoam
Maarah
Haggith
Abitah
Eglah
Bathsheba
Tamar 2 Sam. 13
Tamar 2 Same. 14:27
woman of Tekoah
Abishag the Shunammite
two harlots of 1 Kings 3
Queen of Sheba
Solomon's 1,000 (wives and concubines)
Taphath
Bawemath
pretending queen of 1 Kings 14
Jezebel
widow who helped Elijah
Elisha's mom (parents are mentioned)
Elisha's widow helper
Shunammite of 2 Kings 4:3, 36
Hebrew slave girl 2 Kings 5
Jehosheba
nurse of 2 Kings 11
bad queen Athaliah
Jerusah
Abi
Hephzibah
Zeruah
Naamah
Macah
Azubah
Zibiah
Jehoaddin
Jecolian
Jerusha
Meshullemeth
Jedidah
Huldah the prophetess 2 Kings 22:14 and 2 Chron. 34:22
Hamutal
Zebidah
Nehushta
daughter of Machir 1 Chron. 2:21
Atarah
Jabez's mom
Abihail
Sheshan's daughter
Bithia
Jewish wife 1 Chr. 4:18
Aramean concubine 1 Chr. 7:14
Maacah 1 Chron. 7:16
Beriah's mother 1 Chron. 7:23
Sheerah's daughter verse 24
Micaiah 2 Chr. 13:2
Queen Vashti
Queen Esther
Job's wife
Job's first three daughters
Jemimah
Keziah
Keren-happuch
women singers in Song of Solomon
Gomer
Loruhamah Hos. 1:8
Ezekiel's wife
Queen Candace
Nodiah the prophetess of Nehemiah 6:14

Did I miss any women in the Old Testament??

Here are the New Testament women:

Mary, Jesus' mom
Peter's mother-in-law (3 accounts)
Resuscitated daughter Matt. 9:18
bad Herodias
bad Herodias' daughter

Mary of Mark 7:37 (alabaster, feet and tears)
Gentile woman who pleads Matt. 15:23-27
her daughter
mother of the sons of Zebedee
Mary with alabaster vial of Luke 10, Matt. 23, Mark 14

Martha
Mary Magdalene
Jarius' daughter (3 accounts)
hemorrhaging woman Matt. 9:21 and Mark 5
Elizabeth Luke 1
Annah Luke 2:36
Joannah
healed woman of Luke 13
Susanna
widow with the gift
Bride of Cana
woman of Samaria
woman caught in adultery John 8
Jesus' sisters
Sapphira
Tabitha/Dorcus
Lydia Act 16:13
Pricilla
Timothy's grandmother Eunice
Timothy's mother, Lois 2 Tim. 1:5
four virgin daughters of Acts 21:9
Euodia and Syntyche Phil. 4:3

double mentions in the Matthews geneology: Tamar, Rahab, Ruth, wife of Uraiah, Mary
and the women of Hebrews chapter 11

How many women are mentioned in the Bible?? At least 2,000 depending on how many daughters you assign to the daughters mentioned in the geneologies---two each literally, or more like ten, twenty or one hundred.

How many men are mentioned in the Bible??

1 comment:

ShalomSeeker said...

Wowser! Did you create this list yourself? Very nice. Just goes to prove God doesn't care about women, right! LOL!! For the random reader: I am SO kidding!