Wives in the Bible
Example
• Abihail (wife of Abishur) — Wife of Abishur, mother of Ahban and Molid.
• Abishur — Son of Shammai, descendant of Judah.
Old Testament
• Taphath — The daughter of Solomon and wife of Ben-abinadab.
• Abinadab (governor) — A governor responsible for providing a month’s provisions for Solomon’s household.
• Atarah — Second wife of Jerahmeel, a descendant of Judah.
• Jerahmeel (son of Hezron) — Son of Hezron, a descendant of Judah.
• Hodesh — Wife of Shaharaim.
• Shaharaim — A descendant of Benjamin.
• Reumah — The concubine of Nahor who bore four children.
• Nahor (brother of Abraham) — The brother of Abraham and husband of Milcah.
• Zeruah — Mother of King Jeroboam.
• Nebat — A servant of Solomon and father of king Jeroboam.
• Naarah (wife of Ashhur) — A wife of Ashhur who bore four sons.
• Hur (craftsman) — Ancestor of Bezalel, who was a chief craftsman for the tabernacle.
• Helah (wife of Asshur) — Wife of Ashhur, who bore him three sons.
• Hur (craftsman) — Ancestor of Bezalel, who was a chief craftsman for the tabernacle.
• Elisheba — Wife of Aaron.
• Aaron — Descendant of Levi, brother of Moses. His descendants became priests for Israel.
• Bithiah — A daughter of Pharaoh, who married Mered, a descendant of Judah.
• Mered — A son of Ezrah, a descendant of Judah who married both an Egyptian and a Jew.
• Tahpenes — The Egyptian queen who lived during the reigns of David and Solomon.
• Pharaoh (husband of Tahpenes) — The pharaoh who granted asylum to Hadad.
• Zillah — One of Lamach’s two wives and mother of two.
• Lamech (father of Jubal) — The father of Jubal.
• Wife of Cain — A woman who married Cain.
• Cain — Son of Adam; he killed his brother Abel.
• Azubah (wife of Caleb) — First wife of Caleb, descendant of Judah.
• Caleb (son of Hezron) — Son of Hezron, whose descendants were relatives of David.
• Wife of Hadad — The sister of Pharaoh’s wife Tahpenes. Pharaoh gave her as a wife to Hadad the Edomite.
• Hadad (Edomite) — An Edomite who escaped Joab’s purge of every male in Edom and became an adversary of Solomon.
• Peninnah — A wife of Elkahah who taunted Hannah, Elkanah’s other wife, for being barren.
• Elkanah (father of Samuel) — A son of Jeroham, father of Samuel the prophet.
• Ephah (concubine of Caleb) — A concubine of Caleb, who was a descendant of Judah.
• Caleb (son of Hezron) — Son of Hezron, whose descendants were relatives of David.
• Abihail (wife of Abishur) — Wife of Abishur, mother of Ahban and Molid.
• Abishur — Son of Shammai, descendant of Judah.
• Basemath (daughter of Solomon) — A daughter of Solomon; wife of Ahimaaz, an official in Solomon’s court.
• Ahimaaz (governor) — A governor responsible for providing a month’s provisions for Solomon’s household.
• Wife of Job — The woman married to Job.
• Job — The main character of the book of Job.
• Adah (wife of Lamech) — One of two wives of Lamech.
• Lamech (father of Jubal) — The father of Jubal.
• Mahalath (granddaughter of David) — David’s granddaughter through Jerimoth and wife to Rehoboam.
• Rehoboam — The son of Solomon and Naamah; first king of Judah after the division of the kingdom.
• Ahinoam (wife of Saul) — Daughter of Ahimaaz, wife of King Saul.
• Saul (king) — The first king of Israel.
• Timna (sister of Lotan) — A daughter of Seir and concubine to Eliphaz, Esau’s son.
• Eliphaz (son of Esau) — A son of Esau by his wife Adah.
• Maacah (concubine) — A concubine of Caleb and mother of four sons.
• Caleb (son of Hezron) — Son of Hezron, whose descendants were relatives of David.
• Maacah (wife of Machir) — The wife of Machir and mother of Peresh and Sheresh.
• Machir (grandson of Joseph) — A grandson of Joseph through Manasseh and his concubine.
• Eglah — A wife of David.
• David — Son of Jesse; second king of Israel. He united Israel, conquered enemies, and established the practices of worship in Jerusalem.
• Baara — A wife of Shaharaim.
• Shaharaim — A descendant of Benjamin.
• Jerioth — A wife of Caleb who was a descendant of Judah.
• Caleb (son of Hezron) — Son of Hezron, whose descendants were relatives of David.
• Wife of Bethuel — A woman who married Bethuel. She was the mother of Rebekah and Laban.
• Bethuel (father of Rebekah) — Father of Isaac’s wife Rebekah.
• Milcah (wife of Nahor) — The wife of Nahor and grandmother of Rebekah.
• Nahor (brother of Abraham) — The brother of Abraham and husband of Milcah.
• Divorced Woman — A wife whose husband divorced her, or who divorced her husband.
• Husband of Divorced Woman — A man who married a woman who divorced her husband.
• Mehetabel (wife of Hadar) — The wife of Hadar, king of Edom.
• Hadad (king) — King of Edom after Baal-hanan.
• Pharaoh’s Daughter (wife of Solomon) — A woman who married Solomon.
• Solomon — Son of David and Bathsheba and third king of Israel.
• Wife of Lot — A woman who married Lot. She turned into a pillar of salt.
• Lot (person) — A nephew of Abraham who fled Sodom.
• Ephrath — A wife of Caleb son of Hezron.
• Caleb (son of Hezron) — Son of Hezron, whose descendants were relatives of David.
• Hezron (son of Perez) — Son of Perez, a descendant of Judah.
• Hushim (wife) — Wife of Shaharaim.
• Shaharaim — A descendant of Benjamin.
• Merab — The oldest of Saul’s daughters promised to David, but given away to someone else.
• Adriel — Saul’s daughter Merab became the wife of Adriel.
• Judith (wife of Esau) — A wife of Esau.
• Esau — Son of Isaac, twin brother of Jacob.
• Bath-shua — A Canaanite woman who bore three sons to Judah.
• Judah (patriarch) — Son of Jacob by his wife Leah; head of one of the twelve tribes of Israel.
• Mahalath (daughter of Ishmael) — A daughter of Ishmael and wife to Esau.
• Esau — Son of Isaac, twin brother of Jacob.
• Abital — Mother of Shephatiah, a son of David.
• David — Son of Jesse; second king of Israel. He united Israel, conquered enemies, and established the practices of worship in Jerusalem.
• Maacah (wife of David) — The daughter of Talmai and wife of David. She was Absalom’s mother.
• David — Son of Jesse; second king of Israel. He united Israel, conquered enemies, and established the practices of worship in Jerusalem.
• Wife of Ezekiel — A woman married to the prophet Ezekiel.
• Ezekiel — The prophet whose words are recorded in the book of Ezekiel.
• Wife of Phinehas — A woman who married Phinehas. She bore a son named Ichabod.
• Phinehas (son of Eli) — A son of Eli who served as a priest at Shiloh.
• 400 Virgins — Women taken as spoils of war from Jabesh-gilead and given to the tribe of Benjamin as wives.
• Benjaminites — The descendants of the patriarch Benjamin.
• Maacah (wife of Jeiel) — The wife of Jeiel.
• Jeiel (ancestor of Saul) — Who lived in Gibeon, and was an ancestor of King Saul.
• Wife of Noah — A woman who married Noah. She survived the flood.
• Noah (builder of ark) — A son of Lamech chosen to build the ark.
• Oholibamah — The wife of Esau and mother of three sons.
• Esau — Son of Isaac, twin brother of Jacob.
• Adah (wife of Esau) — One of the wives of Esau.
• Esau — Son of Isaac, twin brother of Jacob.
• Jael — Wife of Heber; she killed Sisera, commander of king Jabin’s army while he slept.
• Heber (husband of Jael) — Husband of Jael, who killed Sisera, commander of the Canaanite army.
• Asenath — Daughter of Potiphera and wife of Joseph.
• Joseph (patriarch) — Son of Jacob by his wife, Rachel. He became an administrator in Egypt during the famine.
• Jehosheba — Sister of King Ahaziah of Judah, who hid his infant son Joash.
• Jehoiada (chief priest) — A chief priest who removed queen Athaliah from the throne in Judah and restored the regency to Joash.
• Zeresh — The wife of Haman who advised her husband to build the gallows.
• Haman — Son of Hammedatha; whose plot to destroy the Jews throughout the Persian empire was foiled by Esther.
• Rizpah — A concubine of Saul’s who bore him sons Armoni and Mephibosheth.
• Saul (king) — The first king of Israel.
• Haggith — A wife of David and mother of Adonijah.
• David — Son of Jesse; second king of Israel. He united Israel, conquered enemies, and established the practices of worship in Jerusalem.
• Maacah (wife of Rehoboam) — The wife of Rehoboam and daughter of Absalom.
• Rehoboam — The son of Solomon and Naamah; first king of Judah after the division of the kingdom.
• Basemath (wife of Esau) — A wife of Esau.
• Esau — Son of Isaac, twin brother of Jacob.
• Achsah (daughter of Caleb) — The daughter of Caleb who was given to Othniel as a wife for his capture of Kiriath-sepher.
• Othniel — A son of Kenaz and Israel’s first judge.
• Vashti — The queen replaced by Esther during the reign of Ahasuerus.
• Ahasuerus (king) — King of Persia, who married Esther.
• Wife of Potiphar — A woman who married Potiphar. She accused Joseph of trying to sleep with her.
• Potiphar — An officer of Pharaoh and captain of the palace guard who purchased Joseph.
• Huldah — A prophetess during the reign of Josiah.
• Shallum (keeper of wardrobe) — The husband of Huldah, son of Tokhath and keeper of the wardrobe.
• Keturah — Abraham’s second wife and mother of six sons.
• Abraham — To whom God promised uncountable descendants and the land of Canaan for their possession.
• Wife of Jeroboam — A woman who married Jeroboam. Ahijah prophesied to her the end of Jeroboam’s line.
• Jeroboam (king) — Son of Nebat; he became the first king of Israel after the separation of the kingdom.
• Zipporah — The wife of Moses and mother of two sons.
• Moses — Brother of Aaron and Miriam, and leader of the Hebrew people.
• Zilpah — A wife of Jacob and mother of Gad and Asher.
• Jacob (son of Isaac) — Son of Isaac; father of the twelve sons who were heads of the twelve tribes of Israel.
• Wife of Manoah — A woman who married Manoah. She was barren but she bore a son.
• Manoah — The father of Samson.
• Wife of Samson — A Philistine woman who married Samson. After their marriage, her father gave her to another man.
• Samson — A judge in Israel whose strength and moral weakness made him famous.
• Bilhah (maidservant) — Maidservant of Rachel, who bore Dan and Naphtali to Jacob.
• Jacob (son of Isaac) — Son of Isaac; father of the twelve sons who were heads of the twelve tribes of Israel.
• Jochebed — Wife of Amram, mother of Moses.
• Amram (father of Moses) — Son of Kohath, father of Moses.
• Ahinoam (wife of David) — Wife of King David, mother of his first son, Amnon.
• David — Son of Jesse; second king of Israel. He united Israel, conquered enemies, and established the practices of worship in Jerusalem.
• Shunammite Woman who helped Elisha — A woman from Shunem who provided hospitality for Elisha.
• Shunammite’s Husband — A man who married the Shunammite woman.
• Gomer (wife of Hosea) — A woman married to the prophet Hosea.
• Hosea (prophet) — Son of Beeri, The prophet.
• Hannah — Wife of Elkanah and mother of the prophet-priest Samuel.
• Elkanah (father of Samuel) — A son of Jeroham, father of Samuel the prophet.
• Abigail (wife of David) — Became David’s wife after her husband, Nabal, was struck down by God.
• David — Son of Jesse; second king of Israel. He united Israel, conquered enemies, and established the practices of worship in Jerusalem.
• Nabal — First husband of Abigail and a wealthy farmer of Maon.
• Jezebel (queen) — Daughter of Ethbaal, a Sidonian king; she became the wife of Ahab, king of Israel.
• Ahab (king) — Seventh king over the northern kingdom of Israel. His reign was characterized as wicked.
• Deborah (judge) — Wife of Lappidoth; a judge in Israel.
• Lappidoth — The husband of Deborah the prophetess.
• Eve — Wife of Adam, mother of the human race.
• Adam (first man) — Created by God, he became the father of the human race.
• Michal — A daughter of Saul and wife of David.
• David — Son of Jesse; second king of Israel. He united Israel, conquered enemies, and established the practices of worship in Jerusalem.
• Tamar (daughter-in-law of Judah) — Wife of Er, and daughter-in-law of Judah. An ancestor of Jesus.
• Er (son of Judah) — Son of Judah by his Canaanite wife Shua. Er died childless.
• Bathsheba — Daughter of Eliam and wife of Uriah the Hittite; David arranged for Uriah’s death to cover his adultery with Bathsheba.
• David — Son of Jesse; second king of Israel. He united Israel, conquered enemies, and established the practices of worship in Jerusalem.
• Uriah (Bathsheba’s husband) — One of David’s mighty men who was married to Bathsheba and eventually killed.
• Naomi — The wife of Elimelech and the mother-in-law of Ruth.
• Elimelech — Husband of Naomi in the story of Ruth.
• Hagar — Mother of Ishmael by Abraham. She was the Egyptian maidservant of Sarah.
• Abraham — To whom God promised uncountable descendants and the land of Canaan for their possession.
• Leah — A daughter of Laban, Jacob’s first wife, and mother of seven.
• Jacob (son of Isaac) — Son of Isaac; father of the twelve sons who were heads of the twelve tribes of Israel.
• Ruth — The widow of Mahlon and wife of Boaz. The great-grandmother of David.
• Boaz — Who became the husband of Ruth, the Moabite, and was an ancestor of David.
• Mahlon — Son of Naomi and first husband of Ruth.
• Esther — Whose Jewish name was Hadassah. She became the queen of Ahasuerus, the Persian king.
• Ahasuerus (king) — King of Persia, who married Esther.
• Rebekah — The daughter of Bethuel and wife of Isaac with whom she bore two sons.
• Isaac — Son of Abraham.
• Sarah — The wife of Abraham and mother of Isaac.
• Abraham — To whom God promised uncountable descendants and the land of Canaan for their possession.
• Rachel — The younger daughter of Laban and favorite wife of Jacob.
• Jacob (son of Isaac) — Son of Isaac; father of the twelve sons who were heads of the twelve tribes of Israel.
• Abijah (wife of Hezron) — The wife of Hezron and the mother of Asshur.
• Hezron (son of Perez) — Son of Perez, a descendant of Judah.
Deuterocanonical Books/Pseudepigrapha
• Cleopatra III — Wife of Ptolemy IX.
• Ptolemy IX — Ruler of Egypt and husband of Cleopatra III.
• Wife of Mattathias — Wife of Mattathias, and mother of Judas, Jonathan, John, Simon, and Eleazar.
• Mattathias (father of the Maccabees) — The father of Judas Maccabeus.
• Deborah (grandmother of Tobit) — Mother of Tobiel and grandmother of Tobit.
• Hananiel — Grandfather of Tobit.
• Cleopatra Thea — Daughter of Ptolemy VI and wife first of Alexander Balas and then Demetrius II Nicator.
• Alexander Balas — Ruler of Seleucid kingdom who claimed Antiochus Epiphanes was his father.
• Demetrius II Nicator — Son of Demetrius I who fought Alexander Balas to regain the throne.
• Edna — Wife of Raguel and mother of Sarah.
• Raguel (father of Sarah) — Father of Sarah and husband of Edna.
• Anna (wife of Tobit) — Wife of Tobit and mother of Tobias.
• Tobit — The protagonist of the Book of Tobit, who was blinded and eventually cured.
• Judith (daughter of Merari) — Heroine of the Book of Judith who killed Holofernes and saved Israel.
• Manasseh (husband of Judith) — The husband of Judith who died during a barley harvest.
• Susanna (daughter of Hilkiah) — A woman falsely accused of adultery and condemned to death.
• Joakim (husband of Susanna) — A man in Babylon who married Susanna.
• Sarah (daughter of Raguel) — Woman who had seven husbands killed by a demon before marrying Tobias.
• Sarah’s Husbands — The seven men who married Sarah consecutively and were killed by the demon Asmodeus.
• Tobias (son of Tobit) — Son of Tobit and Anna.
• Mother of the Seven Sons — The mother of seven sons who were tortured by Antiochus IV for not eating unclean meat.
• Father of the Seven Sons (Maccabees) — The husband of the mother of the seven sons who were tortured and killed by Antiochus IV.
New Testament
• Wife of Divorced Man — A woman who was married to a man who divorced his wife.
• Divorced Man — A man who divorced his wife.
• Wives in Colossae — Women who were exhorted to submit to their husbands.
• Husbands in Colossae — Married men in the church at Colossae.
• Wives in Ephesus — Women who were exhorted to submit to their husbands.
• Husbands in Ephesus — Men who were exhorted to love their wives as Christ loved the church.
• Wife of Pilate — The wife of Pontius Pilate. She had a dream that caused her to urge Pilate to have nothing to do with Jesus.
• Pilate — A Roman governor of Judea who authorized Jesus’ crucifixion.
• Mary (wife of Clopas) — Wife of Clopas, a woman present at the crucifixion of Jesus.
• Clopas — Husband of Mary, who was among Jesus’ followers who was present at his crucifixion.
• Wife with Seven Husbands — A woman who married seven brothers after each died. She had no children.
• First Brother — A man who married a woman and bore no children before his death.
• Second Brother — A man who married the widow of his childless brother in order to bear children on his behalf.
• Third Brother — A man who married the widow of his two childless brothers in order to bear children on their behalf.
• Seventh Brother — A man who married the widow of his six childless brothers in order to bear children on their behalf.
• Sapphira — The wife of Ananias and a member of the Jerusalem church.
• Ananias (husband of Sapphira) — Who was struck dead by God for lying about a donation he made to the early church.
• Drusilla — The Jewish wife of Felix, who was a Roman procurator in Judea during Paul’s imprisonment.
• Felix — A governor in Caesarea who heard Paul’s case.
• Herodias — Wife of Philip the tetrarch, whom she deserted to marry Herod Antipas. John the Baptist criticized this relationship.
• Philip (brother of Herod) — The brother of Herod and husband of Herodias.
• Joanna — Wife of Chuza; among those who provided for Jesus and the disciples.
• Chuza — Manager of Herod’s household.
• Elizabeth — Wife of Zechariah; mother of John the Baptist.
• Zechariah (father of John) — The father of John the Baptist and husband of Elizabeth.
• Priscilla — A Christian missionary, who with her husband Aquila, was a leader in the early church.
• Aquila — Who, together with his wife Priscilla, were supporters of Paul’s work in the early church.
• Mary (mother of Jesus) — The mother of Jesus.
• Joseph (husband of Mary) — Husband of Mary, who was mother of Jesus.
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