20 Women Whose Names Are Not Given




Here are twenty women who appear in the Bible but whose names are not given and the names given them by tradition if there is one.
  1. Enoch's wife (Edna)
  2. Noah's wife (Naamah)
  3. Lot's wife (Ado or Edith)
  4. Job's wife (Sitis or Dinah; some traditions posit a second wife, Rahma)
  5. Potiphar's wife (Zuleikha)
  6. Pharaoh's daughter (Thermutis or Bithia)
  7. Moses' Cushite wife (Tharbis)
  8. Jephthah's daughter (Seila or Adah)
  9. Manoah's wife (Tzelelponit)
  10. The wise woman of Abel (Serah)
  11. The widow of Zarephath
  12. The wealthy Shunammite woman
  13. Naaman's wife
  14. And her servant girl
  15. Peter's mother-in-law
  16. The widow of Nain
  17. The woman with the issue of blood
  18. The woman at the well
  19. The widow who put two coins in the treasury
  20. The mother of Rufus
(There are as many as 600 of these)

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