WOMEN in the Bible

-Creation of ; 2:21,22 -Named -Fall of, and curse upon -16; ; -Promise to -Had separate apartments in dwellings ; 31:33; ,11 -Veiled the face -See VAIL -Vows of -16 -When jealously charged with infidelity, their guilt or innocence was to be determined by an ordeal -31 -Took part in ancient worship ; 21; 38:8; -In chorus ,6; ; -Worshiped in separate compartments ; -Consecrated jewels to tabernacle -Mirrors -Required to attend to the reading of the law of Moses ; -Purifications of -After menstruation -33; -After childbirth LEV 12; -Difference in ceremonies made between male and female children LEV 12 -Religious privileges of, among early Christians ; 12:12,13; ; 14:34; -Domestic duties of ; -19; -Cooked -Spun ,26; ; -24 -Embroidered -Made garments -Gleaned -Kept vineyards So 1:6 -Tended flocks and herds ,13,14,19,20; 29:9; -Worked in fields ; ,8 -Was a doorkeeper ; ,17; ,14 -Forbidden to wear men' s costume -Wore hair long -15 -Rules for dress of Christian ,10; ,4 -Ornaments of -23 -Weaker than men -Are timid ; ; 51:30; NAM 3:13 -Are affectionate -Are tender to her offspring ; -Are mirthsome ; 21:21; ; -Are courteous to strangers -Could not marry without the consent of parents ,4; 34:6; -Not to be given in marriage was considered a calamity ; ; -Taken captive ,15,17,18,35; ; ,18 -Punishment to be inflicted upon men for seducing, when betrothed -27 -Punishment for seducing, when not betrothed ,17; ,29 -Treated with cruelty in war ; ; 5:11 -Virtuous, held in high estimation ; -30 -Fond of self-indulgence -11 -Fond of ornaments -Subtle and deceitful -29,32-35; 7:6-27; -Silly, and easily led into error -Zealous in promoting superstition and idolatry ; ,23 -Active in instigating to iniquity ,16; ; -Guilty of sodomy ; -As rulers -Deborah -Athaliah -16; ,3,10-12 -Queen of Sheba -13 -Queen Candace -A Persian queen sat on a throne beside her king -Patriotic -Miriam -Deborah JDG 5 -The women of Israel -The women of the Philistines -Help in defensive operations -As poets -Miriam -Deborah JDG 5 -Hannah -10 -Elisabeth -45 -Mary -55 -As prophets -Miriam ,21; -Deborah ,5 -Huldah -20; -28 -Noadiah -Anna -38 -Philip' s four unmarried daughters -False prophets -23 -In business -18,24 -Property rights of -In inheritance -11; 36; -6; -To sell real estate -9 -Sold for husband' s debts -First to sin -Last at the cross ,56; ,41 -First at the gravesite ,47; 16:1-6; ,28,49,55,56; 24:1-10 -First to whom the risen Lord appeared ; -18 -Converted by preaching of Paul ,15; 17:4,12,34 -Social status of -In Persia -22; -12 -In Roman customs ; 25:13,23; 26:30 -UNCLASSIFIED SCRIPTURES RELATING TO ,21-24; 3:16; -22; ,22; 12:4; 14:1; 18:22; 19:13,14; 21:9,19; 25:24; 27:15,16; 30:21-23; 31:10-31; -28; -24; 32:9-12; -23; -15; 14:34,35; -15; 3:11; 5:1-16; ,7; -5 -See WIDOW -See WIFE -See also [4261]HUSBANDS -See PARENTS -GOOD -INSTANCES OF -Deborah, a judge, prophetess, and military leader JDG 4; 5 -Mother of Samson -Naomi RUT 1; 2; 3:1 -Ruth ,14-22 -And RUT 2; 3; 4 -Hannah, the mother of Samuel -18,24-28 -Widow of Zarephath, who fed Elijah during the famine -24 -The Shunammite woman, who gave hospitality to Elisha -38 -Vashti ,12 -Esther -17 -Mary -38 -Elisabeth ,41-45 -Anna -The widow who put her two mite (small coins, Greek: leptas) into the treasury -44; -4 -Mary and Martha -9; ; -Mary Magdalene ; ; ,2,11-16 -Pilate' s wife -Dorcas (Tabitha) -Lydia -Priscilla (Prisca) -Phoebe ,2 -Julia -Mary -Lois and Eunice -The Philippian Christians -FIGURATIVE -Of the body (ekklesia) of Christ -15; ; -Of saints -4; ; -WICKED -37; 23:7; -19,25; ; -Zeal of, in licentious practices of idolatry ; ,14 -Full of deceit and licentiousness -19; 5:3-20; 6:24-29,32-35; 7:6-27; ; -Commits forgery -Silly and wayward -INSTANCES OF -Eve, in yielding to temptation and seducing her husband ; -Sarah, in her jealousy and malice toward Hagar -11; with 21:12-21 -Lot' s wife, in her rebellion against her situation, and against the destruction of Sodom ; -The daughters of Lot, in their incestuous lust -38 -Rebekah, in her partiality for Jacob, and her sharp practice to secure for him Isaac' s blessing -17 -Rachel, in her jealousy of Leah -Rachel, in stealing images ,34 -Leah, in her imitation of Rachel in the matter of children -18 -Dinah, in her fornication ,2 -Tamar, in her adultery -24 -Potiphar' s wife, in her lascivious lust and slander against Joseph -20 -Zipporah, in her persecution of Moses on account of his religious obligations ,26 -Miriam, in her sedition with Aaron against Moses NUM 12 -Rahab, in her harlotry -Delilah, in her conspiracy against Samson -20 -Peninnah, the wife of Elkanah, in her jealous taunting of Hannah -8 -The Midianite woman in the camp of Israel, taken in adultery -8 -Michal, in her derision of David' s religious zeal ,20-23 -Bath-sheba, in her adultery, in becoming the wife of her husband' s murderer ,5,27; 12:9,10 -Solomon' s wives, in their idolatrous and wicked influence over Solomon -11; -Jezebel, in her persecution and destruction of the prophets of the Lord ,13 -Jezebel, in her persecution of Elijah -Jezebel, in her conspiracy against Naboth, to cheat him out of his vineyard -16 -Jezebel, in her evil counsels to, and influence over, Ahab ; with 21:17-27 -And -37 -The cannibalistic mothers of Samaria ,29 -Athaliah, in destroying the royal household and usurping the throne -16; ,12; 23:12-15 -The sodomites of the southern kingdom (Judah) -Noadiah, a false prophetess in attempting to intimidate the Jews when they were restoring Jerusalem -Haman' s wife, in advising him to hang Mordecai ; 6:13 -Job' s wife, in suggesting to him that he curse God and die ; 19:17 -Gomer, the adulterous wife of Hosea ,3; 3:1 -Herodias, in her incestuous marriage with Herod Antipas ,4; -19; -Herodius, by indirectly causing John the Baptist to be decapitated -11; -28 -The daughter of Herodias, in her complicity with her mother in securing the death of John the Baptist ; -28 -Sapphira, in her blasphemous falsehood -10 -The woman caught in the act of adultery and brought to Jesus in the temple -11 -FIGURATIVE -Of backsliding ; ,18 -Of evil people ,11; -13 -SYMBOLICAL -Of wickedness ,8; REV 17; 19:2 -See WIFE