This list provides names given in history and
tradition
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s for people who appear to be unnamed in the
Bible
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.
Hebrew Bible
Serpent of Genesis
Revelation 12
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identifies the
serpent with
Satan, unlike the
pseudepigraphical
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-
apocryphal Apocalypse of Moses (
Vita Adae et Evae) where the Devil works with the serpent.
Wives of the antediluvian patriarchs
The
pseudepigraphical
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Book of Jubilees
The Book of Jubilees, sometimes called Lesser Genesis (Leptogenesis), is an ancient Jewish religious work of 50 chapters (1,341 verses), considered canonical by the Ethiopian Orthodox Church as well as Beta Israel (Ethiopian Jews), where it is ...
provides names for a host of otherwise unnamed biblical characters, including wives for most of the
antediluvian patriarchs
The highest-ranking bishops in Eastern Orthodoxy, Oriental Orthodoxy, the Catholic Church (above major archbishop and primate), the Hussite Church, Church of the East, and some Independent Catholic Churches are termed patriarchs (and in certa ...
. The last of these is
Noah's wife, to whom it gives the name of ''Emzara''. Other Jewish traditional sources contain many different names for Noah's wife.
The Book of Jubilees says that Awan was
Adam and Eve
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's first daughter. Their second daughter Azura married
Seth. For many of the early wives in the series, ''Jubilees'' notes that the patriarchs married their sisters.
The ''
Cave of Treasures
The ''Cave of Treasures'' (Syriac ''M'drāth Gazzē'', Arabic ''Maghārat al-Kunūz'', Ge'ez ''Baʿāta Mazāgebet'' Tigrinya መዝገብ ገዛ ) sometimes referred to simply as ''The Treasure'', is an apocryphal and pseudoepigraphical work, th ...
'' and the earlier ''Kitab al-Magall'' (part of
Clementine literature) name entirely different women as the wives of the patriarchs, with considerable variations among the extant copies.
The Muslim historian
Ibn Ishaq (c. 750), as cited in
al-Tabari (c. 915), provides names for these wives which are generally similar to those in ''Jubilees'', but he makes them
Cainites
The Cainites, or Cainians (Greek: Καϊνοί ''Kainoi'', Καϊανοί ''Kaianoi''),The name is variously written; Καϊνοί (Hippol. ''Ref''. viii. 20; Theodoret, ''Haer. Fab''. i. 15); Caini (Praedest. ''Cod''.); Καϊανισταί (Cle ...
rather than
Sethites, despite clearly stating elsewhere that none of Noah's ancestors were descended from Cain.
Cain and Abel's sisters
:Name:
Aclima (or Calmana or Luluwa)
:source:
Golden Legend
The ''Golden Legend'' (Latin: ''Legenda aurea'' or ''Legenda sanctorum'') is a collection of hagiographies by Jacobus de Voragine that was widely read in late medieval Europe. More than a thousand manuscripts of the text have survived.Hilary ...
,
[Medieval Sourcebook: The Golden Legend: Volume 1 (full text)](_blank)
Fordham.edu.(Dead link 2/2/2022) which also tells stories about many of the saints
:Appears in the Bible at: Genesis 4:17
:Name: Delbora
:source: Golden Legend,
which also tells stories about many of the saints
:Appears in the Bible at: Genesis 4
See also:
Balbira and Kalmana
Aclima (also Kalmana, Lusia, Cainan, Luluwa, or Awan) according to some religious traditions was the oldest daughter of Adam and Eve, the sister (in many sources, the twin sister) of Cain. This would make her the first female human who was born ...
,
Azura and
Awan
Awan may refer to:
Places
* Awan (ancient city), a city-state in Elam in the 3rd millennium BCE
* Awan (region), a town in Guna district, Madhya Pradesh, India
* Awan, Bhulath, a village in Kapurthala district, Punjab, India, Punjab, Pakistan
* ...
for alternate traditions of names.
Noah's wife
:Name: ''
Naamah''
:Source:
Midrash Genesis Rabbah
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23:4
:Appears in the Bible at: Genesis 4:22; Gen. 7:7
Daughter of
Lamech and Zillah and sister of
Tubal-cain
Tubal-cain or Tubalcain ( he, תּוּבַל קַיִן – ''Tūḇal Qayīn'') is a person mentioned in the Bible, in , known for being the first blacksmith. He is stated as the "forger of all instruments of bronze and iron". A descendant of C ...
(Gen. iv. 22). According to Abba ben Kahana, Naamah was Noah's wife and was called "Naamah" (pleasant) because her conduct was pleasing to God. But the majority of the rabbis reject this statement, declaring that Naamah was an idolatrous woman who sang "pleasant" songs to idols.
See also
Wives aboard the Ark
The wives aboard Noah's Ark were part of the family that survived the Deluge in the biblical Genesis flood narrative from the Bible. These wives are the wife of Noah, and the wives of each of his three sons. Although the Bible only notes the ex ...
for a list of traditional names given to the wives of Noah and his sons Shem, Ham, and Japheth.
Ham's wife
:Name: ''
Egyptus
In Latter-day Saint theology, Egyptus () is the name of two women in the Book of Abraham in the Pearl of Great Price. One is the wife of Ham, son of Noah, who bears his children. The other is their daughter, who discovered Egypt while "it was un ...
''
:Source:
Book of Abraham
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The
Mormon
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Book of Abraham, first published in 1842, mentions Egyptus
Abraham 1:23 as being the name of Ham's wife; his daughter apparently had the same name (v. 25).
Nimrod's wife
A large body of legend has attached itself to
Nimrod, whose brief mention in Genesis merely makes him "a mighty hunter in the face of the
Lord
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". (The biblical account makes no mention of a wife at all.) These legends usually make Nimrod to be a sinister figure, and they reach their peak in Hislop's ''
The Two Babylons
''The Two Babylons'', subtitled ''Romanism and its Origins,'' is a book that started out as a religious pamphlet published in 1853 by the Presbyterian Free Church of Scotland theologian Alexander Hislop (1807–65).
Its central theme is the ar ...
'', which make Nimrod and his wife
Semiramis
''Samīrāmīs'', hy, Շամիրամ ''Šamiram'') was the semi-legendary Lydian- Babylonian wife of Onnes and Ninus, who succeeded the latter to the throne of Assyria, according to Movses Khorenatsi. Legends narrated by Diodorus Siculus, who dr ...
to be the original authors of every false and
pagan religion.
Mother of Abraham
:Name: ''Amthlai bath (daughter of) Khrubu''
:Source:
Babylonian Talmud Tractate Baba Bathra Chapter 5
[The Babylonian Talmud, Rodkinson tr., Book 7.: Tract Baba Bathra, Part I: Chapter V](_blank)
Sacred-texts.com.
:Appears in the Bible at:
Book of Genesis
The Book of Genesis (from Greek ; Hebrew: בְּרֵאשִׁית ''Bəreʾšīt'', "In hebeginning") is the first book of the Hebrew Bible and the Christian Old Testament. Its Hebrew name is the same as its first word, ( "In the beginning" ...
Lot's married daughter
:Name: ''Paltith''
:Source:
Book of Jasher
Sefer haYashar is a reference to the Five Books of Moses, Joshua 10:13, see Targum Jonathan, "sifra d'oriaitho"; named on behalf of the Patriarchs who were call "Yesharim", see Numbers 23:10.
Sefer haYashar (Hebrew language, Hebrew ספר הישר ...
19:24
[Book of Jasher, Chapter 19]
Sacred-texts.com.
:Appears in the Bible at:
Book of Genesis
The Book of Genesis (from Greek ; Hebrew: בְּרֵאשִׁית ''Bəreʾšīt'', "In hebeginning") is the first book of the Hebrew Bible and the Christian Old Testament. Its Hebrew name is the same as its first word, ( "In the beginning" ...
Lot's wife
:Name: ''Ado'' (or ''Edith'', or ''Erith'')
:Source:
Book of Jasher
Sefer haYashar is a reference to the Five Books of Moses, Joshua 10:13, see Targum Jonathan, "sifra d'oriaitho"; named on behalf of the Patriarchs who were call "Yesharim", see Numbers 23:10.
Sefer haYashar (Hebrew language, Hebrew ספר הישר ...
19:52 (Ado);
''
Pirkei De-Rabbi Eliezer
Pirkei de-Rabbi Eliezer (also Pirkei DeRabbi Eliezer; Aramaic: פרקי דרבי אליעזר, or פרקים דרבי אליעזר, Chapters of Rabbi Eliezer; abbreviated PdRE) is an aggadic-midrashic work on the Torah containing exegesis and re ...
'' (Edith)
:Appears in the Bible at:
Book of Genesis
The Book of Genesis (from Greek ; Hebrew: בְּרֵאשִׁית ''Bəreʾšīt'', "In hebeginning") is the first book of the Hebrew Bible and the Christian Old Testament. Its Hebrew name is the same as its first word, ( "In the beginning" ...
Laban's wife
: Name: ''Adinah''
: Source:
Book of Jasher
Sefer haYashar is a reference to the Five Books of Moses, Joshua 10:13, see Targum Jonathan, "sifra d'oriaitho"; named on behalf of the Patriarchs who were call "Yesharim", see Numbers 23:10.
Sefer haYashar (Hebrew language, Hebrew ספר הישר ...
28:28
: Appears in the Bible at:
Book of Genesis
The Book of Genesis (from Greek ; Hebrew: בְּרֵאשִׁית ''Bəreʾšīt'', "In hebeginning") is the first book of the Hebrew Bible and the Christian Old Testament. Its Hebrew name is the same as its first word, ( "In the beginning" ...
Potiphar's wife
:Name: ''
Zuleikha''
:Source: The ''Sefer Hayyashar'', a book of Jewish lore published in
Venice
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in 1625
Also, the Persian mystical poem "
Yusuf and Zulaikha
"Yusuf and Zulaikha" (the English transliteration of both names varies greatly) refers to a medieval Islamic version of the story of the prophet Yusuf and Potiphar's wife which has been for centuries in the Muslim world, and is found in many langu ...
" by
Jami
Nūr ad-Dīn 'Abd ar-Rahmān Jāmī ( fa, نورالدین عبدالرحمن جامی; 7 November 1414 – 9 November 1492), also known as Mawlanā Nūr al-Dīn 'Abd al-Rahmān or Abd-Al-Rahmān Nur-Al-Din Muhammad Dashti, or simply as J ...
.
:Appears in the Bible at: Genesis 39:12
Potiphar's wife attempted to
seduce Joseph in
Egypt
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.
Pharaoh's daughter
:Name: Merris
:Source: Eusebius of Caesarea (Preparation for the Gospel 9.15)
:Name: Merrhoe
:Source: Eustathius of Antioch (Commentary on Hexameron MPG 18.785)
:Name: Thermutis
:Source: Flavius Josephus
:Name: ''
Bithiah
The Pharaoh's daughter ( he, בַּת־פַּרְעֹה, lit=daughter of Pharaoh) in the story of the finding of Moses in the biblical Book of Exodus is an important, albeit minor, figure in Abrahamic religions. Though some variations of her stor ...
'' or ''Bitya''
:Source:
Leviticus Rabbah
:Appears in the Bible at:
Exodus 2
:Name: ''
Sobekneferu
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, image_alt = Partially defaced bust of a female
, caption = Statue of Sobekneferu
, reign = 3 years, 10 months, and 24 days according to the Turin Canon in the mid 18th ...
'' or ''Neferusobek''
:Source: ''Unwrapping the Pharaohs''
:
Pharaoh's daughter, who drew
Moses out of the water, is known as ''
Bithiah
The Pharaoh's daughter ( he, בַּת־פַּרְעֹה, lit=daughter of Pharaoh) in the story of the finding of Moses in the biblical Book of Exodus is an important, albeit minor, figure in Abrahamic religions. Though some variations of her stor ...
'' in Jewish tradition (identifying her with the "Pharaoh's daughter Bithiah" in
1 Chronicles
The Book of Chronicles ( he, דִּבְרֵי־הַיָּמִים ) is a book in the Hebrew Bible, found as two books (1–2 Chronicles) in the Christian Old Testament. Chronicles is the final book of the Hebrew Bible, concluding the third sect ...
4:18).
Simeon's wife
:Name: Bunah
:Source:
Book of Jasher
Sefer haYashar is a reference to the Five Books of Moses, Joshua 10:13, see Targum Jonathan, "sifra d'oriaitho"; named on behalf of the Patriarchs who were call "Yesharim", see Numbers 23:10.
Sefer haYashar (Hebrew language, Hebrew ספר הישר ...
34:36 Legends of the Jews Volume 1 Chapter 6
:Appears in the bible at:
Genesis
:Name: Dinah
:Source:
Midrash Bereshit Rabba 80:11. After Simeon and Levi slaughtered the men of Shechem, Dinah refused to go with them unless someone married her and raised the child of Prince Chamor she was carrying as his own. Simeon did this.
Pharaoh's magicians
:Names: ''
Jannes and Jambres''
:Source:
2 Timothy 3:8,
Book of Jasher
Sefer haYashar is a reference to the Five Books of Moses, Joshua 10:13, see Targum Jonathan, "sifra d'oriaitho"; named on behalf of the Patriarchs who were call "Yesharim", see Numbers 23:10.
Sefer haYashar (Hebrew language, Hebrew ספר הישר ...
chapter 79 Antiquities of the Jews Book 2
Aquarian Gospel of Jesus the Christ Chapter 109 Ante-Nicene Fathers, Vol. VIII Easton's Bible Dictionary ''
The Book of the Bee'' Chapter 30 Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers, Vol. XIII Legends of the Jews Volume 2 Chapter 4,
Chronicles of Jerahmeel
The ''Chronicles of Jerahmeel'' is a voluminous work that draws largely on Pseudo-Philo's earlier history of Biblical events and is of special interest because it includes Hebrew and Aramaic versions of certain deuterocanonical books in the Septua ...
,
Papyrus Chester Beatty XVI: ''
Apocryphon of Jannes and Jambres''
:Appears in the Bible at:
Exodus 7
The names of Jannes and Jambres, or Jannes and Mambres, were well known through the ancient world as magicians. In this instance, nameless characters from the
Hebrew Bible
The Hebrew Bible or Tanakh (;["Tanach"](_blank)
'' New Testament
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. Their names also appear in numerous Jewish texts.
The Cushitic wife of Moses
:Name:
Tharbis
:Source: Flavius Josephus, Jewish Antiquities, Book II, Chapter 10
:Appears in the Bible at:
Numbers
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12
:Name: ''Adoniah''
:Source: Book of Jasher, 23.5–25.5
Job's wives
:Names: ''Sitis'', ''Dinah''
:Source: The apocryphal
Testament of Job
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:Appears in the Bible at:
Book of Job
Apocryphal Jewish folklore says that Sitis, or Sitidos, was Job's first wife, who died during his trials. After his temptation was over, the same sources say that
Job remarried
Dinah,
Jacob
Jacob (; ; ar, يَعْقُوب, Yaʿqūb; gr, Ἰακώβ, Iakṓb), later given the name Israel, is regarded as a patriarch of the Israelites and is an important figure in Abrahamic religions, such as Judaism, Christianity, and Islam. J ...
's daughter who appears in Genesis.
:Name: ''Raḥma''
:Source: Islamic tradition
[Eric Geoffroy et Néfissa Geoffroy : Le grand livre des prénoms arabes – Plus de 5500 prénoms classés par thèmes avec leurs correspondances en français, Albin Michel, 2009.]
The source does not tell which wife of Job has this name.
Jephthah's daughter
:Name: ''Seila''
:Source: ''
Liber Antiquitatum Biblicarum''
:Name: ''Adah''
:Source:
Order of the Eastern Star
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:Appears in the Bible at:
Judges 11
The ''
Liber Antiquitatum Biblicarum'' falsely ascribes itself to the Jewish author
Philo
Philo of Alexandria (; grc, Φίλων, Phílōn; he, יְדִידְיָה, Yəḏīḏyāh (Jedediah); ), also called Philo Judaeus, was a Hellenistic Jewish philosopher who lived in Alexandria, in the Roman province of Egypt.
Philo's de ...
. It in fact did not surface until the sixteenth century; see ''
Works of Philo''.
Samson's mother
:Name: ''
Zelelponith''
:Source:
Babylonian Talmud Tractate Baba Bathra Chapter 5
:Appears in the Bible at:
Book of Judges
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13
David's mother
:Name:
Nzb'th, daughter of Edal
:Source:
Babylonian Talmud Tractate Baba Bathra Chapter 5 (folio 91a)
:Appears in the Bible at:
Book of Samuel
The Witch of Endor
:Name: ''Sedecla''
:Source: ''
Liber Antiquitatum Biblicarum''
:Appears in the Bible at:
1 Samuel 28
The Man of God
:Name: ''
Iddo'' or ''
Jadon
Jadon is a Hebrew name meaning "God has heard," "thankful" (according to Strong's Concordance), "a judge," or "whom God has judged" and the name of two characters in biblical history.
Jadon the Meronothite
Jadon the Meronothite was one of the bu ...
''
:Source:
::Named ''Jadon'' by
Josephus
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in ''
The Antiquities of the Jews
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'' ''VIII.8.5''
:Appears in the Bible at:
2 Chronicles
The Book of Chronicles ( he, דִּבְרֵי־הַיָּמִים ) is a book in the Hebrew Bible, found as two books (1–2 Chronicles) in the Christian Old Testament. Chronicles is the final book of the Hebrew Bible, concluding the third sect ...
12:15 and
1 Kings
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13
The wise woman of Abel
:Name: ''
Serah {{about, , the Jewish wife of the Khazar ruler Sabriel, Serach (Khazar), the South Indian actress, Serah (actress), the type of Ancient Egyptian cartouche, Serekh, other meanings, Serach (disambiguation)
Serach bat Asher was, in the Tanakh, a daugh ...
''
:Source:
Aggadic Midrash
:Appears in the Bible at:
2 Samuel 20
The Queen of Sheba
:Name: ''Makeda''
:Source: Traditional
Ethiopia
Ethiopia, , om, Itiyoophiyaa, so, Itoobiya, ti, ኢትዮጵያ, Ítiyop'iya, aa, Itiyoppiya officially the Federal Democratic Republic of Ethiopia, is a landlocked country in the Horn of Africa. It shares borders with Eritrea to the ...
n lore surrounding Emperor
Menelik I
Menelik I ( Ge'ez: ምኒልክ) was the claimed first Emperor of Ethiopia. According to Kebra Nagast, a 14th-century national epic, in the 10th century BC he is said to have inaugurated the Solomonic dynasty of Ethiopia, so named because Meneli ...
; see the ''
Kebra Nagast
The Kebra Nagast, var. Kebra Negast ( gez, ክብረ ነገሥት, ), or The Glory of the Kings, is a 14th-century national epic from Ethiopia, written in Ge'ez by Nebure Id Ishaq of Axum, by the office of Abuna Abba Giyorgis and at the command ...
''
:Name: ''Nicaule''
:Source:
Josephus
Flavius Josephus (; grc-gre, Ἰώσηπος, ; 37 – 100) was a first-century Romano-Jewish historian and military leader, best known for '' The Jewish War'', who was born in Jerusalem—then part of Roman Judea—to a father of priestly ...
:Name: ''
Bilqis
The Queen of Sheba ( he, מַלְכַּת שְׁבָא, Malkaṯ Šəḇāʾ; ar, ملكة سبأ, Malikat Sabaʾ; gez, ንግሥተ ሳባ, Nəgśətä Saba) is a figure first mentioned in the Hebrew Bible. In the original story, she bring ...
''
:Source: Islamic traditions
:Appears in the Bible at: 1
Kings 10; 2
Books of Chronicles
The Book of Chronicles ( he, דִּבְרֵי־הַיָּמִים ) is a book in the Hebrew Bible, found as two books (1–2 Chronicles) in the Christian Old Testament. Chronicles is the final book of the Hebrew Bible, concluding the third sec ...
9
According to Ethiopian traditions, the Queen of Sheba returned to Ethiopia pregnant with King
Solomon's child. She bore Solomon a son that went on to found a
dynasty
A dynasty is a sequence of rulers from the same family,''Oxford English Dictionary'', "dynasty, ''n''." Oxford University Press (Oxford), 1897. usually in the context of a monarchical system, but sometimes also appearing in republics. A ...
that ruled Ethiopia until the fall of Emperor
Haile Selassie in 1974.
Jeroboam's wife
:Name: Ano
:Source:
Septuagint
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:Appears in the Bible at: 1
Kings 14
Haman's mother
:Name: ''Amthlai daughter of Urbthi''
:Source:
Babylonian Talmud Tractate Baba Bathra Chapter 5
:Appears in the Bible at:
Book of Esther
Old Testament deuterocanonicals
The
Deuterocanonical books
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, sometimes called the "
Apocrypha
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", are considered canonical by Catholics,
Eastern Orthodox
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Like the Pentarchy of the first millennium, the mainstream (or " canonical ...
, and
Oriental Orthodox (though these churches' lists of books differ slightly from each other).
Seven Maccabees and their mother
:Name: Habroun, Hebsoun, Bakhous, Adai, Tarsai, Maqbai and Yawnothon.
:Source:
Maronite tradition
:Name: Abim, Antonius, Gurias, Eleazar, Eusebonus, Alimus and Marcellus.
:Source: Eastern Orthodox Tradition
The
woman with seven sons
The woman with seven sons was a Jewish martyr described in 2 Maccabees 7 and other sources, who had seven sons that were arrested (along with her) by Antiochus IV Epiphanes, who forced them to prove their respect to him by consuming pig meat. When ...
is a Jewish
martyr
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who is unnamed in
2 Maccabees
2 Maccabees, el, Μακκαβαίων Β´, translit=Makkabaíōn 2 also known as the Second Book of Maccabees, Second Maccabees, and abbreviated as 2 Macc., is a deuterocanonical book which recounts the persecution of Jews under King Antiochus I ...
7, but is named Hannah, Miriam, Shamuna and Solomonia in other sources. According to Eastern Orthodox tradition, her sons, the "Holy Maccabean Martyrs" (not to be confused with the martyrs in the
Ethiopian book of
Meqabyan
Meqabyan ( am, መቃብያን, Mek'abiyan, also transliterated as or ), also referred to as Ethiopian Maccabees and Ethiopic Maccabees, are three books found only in the Ethiopian Orthodox Old Testament and Beta Israel Biblical canon. The la ...
), are named Abim, Antonius, Gurias, Eleazar, Eusebonus, Alimus and Marcellus. According to the
Syriac Syriac may refer to:
*Syriac language, an ancient dialect of Middle Aramaic
*Sureth, one of the modern dialects of Syriac spoken in the Nineveh Plains region
* Syriac alphabet
** Syriac (Unicode block)
** Syriac Supplement
* Neo-Aramaic languages a ...
Maronite Fenqitho (book of festal offices), the name of the mother is Shmooni while her sons are Habroun, Hebsoun, Bakhous, Adai, Tarsai, Maqbai and Yawnothon.
The seven Archangels
:Name:
Michael,
Gabriel
In Abrahamic religions ( Judaism, Christianity and Islam), Gabriel (); Greek: grc, Γαβριήλ, translit=Gabriḗl, label=none; Latin: ''Gabriel''; Coptic: cop, Ⲅⲁⲃⲣⲓⲏⲗ, translit=Gabriêl, label=none; Amharic: am, ገብ ...
,
Raphael
Raffaello Sanzio da Urbino, better known as Raphael (; or ; March 28 or April 6, 1483April 6, 1520), was an Italian painter and architect of the High Renaissance. His work is admired for its clarity of form, ease of composition, and visual a ...
,
Uriel,
Simiel,
Oriphiel, and
Raguel.
:Source:
Pope Gregory I
Pope Gregory I ( la, Gregorius I; – 12 March 604), commonly known as Saint Gregory the Great, was the bishop of Rome from 3 September 590 to his death. He is known for instigating the first recorded large-scale mission from Rome, the Gregor ...
:Name: Michael, Gabriel, Raphael, Uriel,
Selaphiel,
Jegudiel and
Barachiel
Barachiel ( Hebrew: בַּרַכְאֵל ''Baraḵʾēl'', "God has blessed") is one of the Archangels in Judaism, as well as Byzantine Catholic and Eastern Orthodox tradition. He is the Archangel of Blessings.
In the Third Book of Enoch, he i ...
:Source:
Byzantine Catholic The term Greek Catholic Church can refer to a number of Eastern Catholic Churches following the Byzantine (Greek) liturgy, considered collectively or individually.
The terms Greek Catholic, Greek Catholic church or Byzantine Catholic, Byzantine Ca ...
and
Eastern Orthodox
Eastern Orthodoxy, also known as Eastern Orthodox Christianity, is one of the three main branches of Chalcedonian Christianity, alongside Catholicism and Protestantism.
Like the Pentarchy of the first millennium, the mainstream (or " canonical ...
Tradition
:Name: Michael, Gabriel, Raphael, Uriel,
Camael,
Jophiel
The angel Jophiel ( Heb. ''Yōp̄īʾēl'', "God is my beauty"), also called ''Iophiel'', ''Iofiel'', ''Jofiel'', ''Yofiel'', ''Youfiel'', Zophiel ( ''Ṣōp̄īʾēl'', "God is my watchman") and Zuriel ( ''Ṣūrīʾēl'', "God is my rock"), is ...
, and
Zadkiel
Zadkiel ( he, צִדְקִיאֵל , 'God is my Righteousness'), also known as Hasdiel, is the archangel of freedom, benevolence, kindness and mercy, and the patron angel of all who forgive.
Names
Zadkiel is also known by a variety of oth ...
.
:Source:
Pseudo-Dionysius
Pseudo-Dionysius the Areopagite (or Dionysius the Pseudo-Areopagite) was a Greek author, Christian theologian and Neoplatonic philosopher of the late 5th to early 6th century, who wrote a set of works known as the ''Corpus Areopagiticum' ...
:Name: Michael, Gabriel, Raphael,
Suriel, Zadkiel,
Sarathiel, and
Ananiel.
:Source:
Coptic Orthodox
The Coptic Orthodox Church ( cop, Ϯⲉⲕ̀ⲕⲗⲏⲥⲓⲁ ⲛ̀ⲣⲉⲙⲛ̀ⲭⲏⲙⲓ ⲛ̀ⲟⲣⲑⲟⲇⲟⲝⲟⲥ, translit=Ti.eklyseya en.remenkimi en.orthodoxos, lit=the Egyptian Orthodox Church; ar, الكنيسة القبطي� ...
tradition
:Name: Uriel, Raphael, Raguel, Michael,
Sarakiel, Gabriel, and
Remiel.
:Source:
Book of the Watchers
Tobit 12:15 reads "I am Raphael, one of the
seven holy angels, which present the prayers of the saints, and which go in and out before the glory of the Holy One." Of the six unnamed
archangels
Archangels () are the second lowest rank of angel in the hierarchy of angels. The word ''archangel'' itself is usually associated with the Abrahamic religions, but beings that are very similar to archangels are found in a number of other relig ...
,
Michael is named in the
Book of Daniel, and
Gabriel
In Abrahamic religions ( Judaism, Christianity and Islam), Gabriel (); Greek: grc, Γαβριήλ, translit=Gabriḗl, label=none; Latin: ''Gabriel''; Coptic: cop, Ⲅⲁⲃⲣⲓⲏⲗ, translit=Gabriêl, label=none; Amharic: am, ገብ ...
is named in the
Gospel of Luke
The Gospel of Luke), or simply Luke (which is also its most common form of abbreviation). tells of the origins, birth, ministry, death, resurrection, and ascension of Jesus Christ. Together with the Acts of the Apostles, it makes up a two-vol ...
.
The
Book of Enoch, deuterocanonical in the
Ethiopian Orthodox Church, names the remaining four archangels
Uriel,
Raguel,
Zerachiel, and
Ramiel. Other sources name them Uriel, Izidkiel,
Haniel, and Kepharel. In the
Coptic Orthodox Church the names of these four archangels are given as Suriel, Sedakiel, Sarathiel and Ananiel. Several other sets of names have also been given.
New Testament
The Magi
* Names: Balthasar, Melqon, Gaspar
:Source: ''Armenisches Kindheitsevangelium''
* Names: Balthasar, Melchior, and Caspar (or Gaspar)
:Source: European folklore
* Names: Basanater, Hor, and Karsudan
:Source: The ''
Book of Adam'', an apocryphal
Ethiopia
Ethiopia, , om, Itiyoophiyaa, so, Itoobiya, ti, ኢትዮጵያ, Ítiyop'iya, aa, Itiyoppiya officially the Federal Democratic Republic of Ethiopia, is a landlocked country in the Horn of Africa. It shares borders with Eritrea to the ...
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* Names: Larvandad, Hormisdas, and Gushnasaph
:Source:
Syrian Christian folklore
* Names: Manatho, Alchor, and Gaspar
:Source: White Shrine of Jerusalem - Masonic
Appear in the Bible at Matthew 2.
The Gospel does not state that there were, in fact, three magi or when exactly they visited Jesus, only that multiple magi brought three gifts: gold,
frankincense, and
myrrh. Nevertheless, the number of magi is usually extrapolated from the number of gifts, and the
three wise men are a staple of Christian
nativity scene
In the Christian tradition, a nativity scene (also known as a manger scene, crib, crèche ( or ), or in Italian ''presepio'' or ''presepe'', or Bethlehem) is the special exhibition, particularly during the Christmas season, of art objects rep ...
s. While the European names have enjoyed the most publicity, other faith traditions have different versions. According to the ''Armenisches Kindheitsevangelium'', the three magi were brothers and kings, namely Balthasar, king of India; Melqon, king of
Persia
Iran, officially the Islamic Republic of Iran, and also called Persia, is a country located in Western Asia. It is bordered by Iraq and Turkey to the west, by Azerbaijan and Armenia to the northwest, by the Caspian Sea and Turkmeni ...
; and Gaspar, king of
Arabia
The Arabian Peninsula, (; ar, شِبْهُ الْجَزِيرَةِ الْعَرَبِيَّة, , "Arabian Peninsula" or , , "Island of the Arabs") or Arabia, is a peninsula of Western Asia, situated northeast of Africa on the Arabian Plat ...
. The
Chinese Christian Church believes that the
astronomer
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Liu Xiang was one of the wise men.
The Nativity shepherds
* Names: Asher, Zebulun, Justus, Nicodemus, Joseph, Barshabba, and Jose
:Source: The Syrian ''
Book of the Bee'' written by Bishop Shelemon in the
Aramaic language in the thirteenth century.
Appear in the Bible at
Luke 2.
Jesus' sisters
* Names: Maria
:Source: ''
Gospel of Philip
The Gospel of Philip is a non-canonical Gnostic Gospel dated to around the 3rd century but lost in medieval times until rediscovered by accident, buried with other texts near Nag Hammadi in Egypt, in 1945.
The text is not closely related to the ...
''
* Names: Assia and Lydia
:Source: ''
History of Joseph the Carpenter''
[Wilhelm Schneemelcher, Neutestamentarische Apokryphen. In deutscher Übersetzung: 2 Bde., Mohr Siebeck; 1999, Vol. 1, p. 363]
* Names: Maria or Anna, Salomé
:Source: ''Epiphanus''
That Jesus had sisters is mentioned in and , although their exact number is not specified in either gospel. See .
The various versions of Epiphanus differ on whether one of the sisters was named Maria or Anna.
The Innocents
* Names:
Sicarius of Brantôme,
St. Memorius
:Source:
St. Helena
Appears in the Bible at:
Matthew 2:6–18.
Herodias' daughter
* Name:
Salome
:Source: The ''
Jewish Antiquities
''Antiquities of the Jews'' ( la, Antiquitates Iudaicae; el, Ἰουδαϊκὴ ἀρχαιολογία, ''Ioudaikē archaiologia'') is a 20-volume Historiography, historiographical work, written in Greek language, Greek, by historian Josephus, F ...
'' of
Josephus
Flavius Josephus (; grc-gre, Ἰώσηπος, ; 37 – 100) was a first-century Romano-Jewish historian and military leader, best known for '' The Jewish War'', who was born in Jerusalem—then part of Roman Judea—to a father of priestly ...
, although that reference does not connect her with John the Baptist.
Appears in the Bible at
Matthew 14,
Mark 6.
Syrophoenician woman
* Name: Justa
:Source: 3rd century pseudo-
Clementine homily
Appears in the Bible at
Matthew 15,
Mark 7.
According to the same source, her daughter was Berenice.
The child with Jesus
* Name:
Ignatius Ignatius is a male given name and a surname. Notable people with the name include:
Given name
Religious
* Ignatius of Antioch (35–108), saint and martyr, Apostolic Father, early Christian bishop
* Ignatius of Constantinople (797–877), Cath ...
:Source: Early Christian Tradition
Appears in the Bible at
Mark 9.
Several early Christian writers recorded a legend that the child whom Jesus took in his arms in Mark 9 was
St. Ignatius of Antioch
Ignatius of Antioch (; Ancient Greek, Greek: Ἰγνάτιος Ἀντιοχείας, ''Ignátios Antiokheías''; died c. 108/140 AD), also known as Ignatius Theophorus (, ''Ignátios ho Theophóros'', lit. "the God-bearing"), was an early Ch ...
.
Hæmorrhaging woman
* Name: Berenice
:Source: Apocryphal ''
Gospel of Nicodemus''
* Name: ''
Veronica
:Source: Latin translation of the apocryphal ''
Gospel of Nicodemus''
Gos. Nicodemus 5:26
Appears in the Bible at .
Veronica is a Latin variant of Berenice ( el, Βερενίκη). Veronica or Berenice obtained some of Jesus' blood on a cloth at the
Crucifixion
Crucifixion is a method of capital punishment in which the victim is tied or nailed to a large wooden cross or beam and left to hang until eventual death from exhaustion and asphyxiation. It was used as a punishment by the Persians, Carthagi ...
(see also:
Veil of Veronica). Tradition identifies her with the woman who was healed of a bleeding discharge in the Gospel.
Samaritan woman at the well
* Name:
Photini
The Samaritan woman at the well is a figure from the Gospel of John. John 4:4–42 relates her conversation with Jesus at Jacob's Well near the city of Sychar.
Biblical account
The woman appears in ; here is John 4:4–26:
This episode take ...
:Source:
Eastern Orthodox
Eastern Orthodoxy, also known as Eastern Orthodox Christianity, is one of the three main branches of Chalcedonian Christianity, alongside Catholicism and Protestantism.
Like the Pentarchy of the first millennium, the mainstream (or " canonical ...
Church Tradition
Appears in the Bible at John 4:5–42.
In the tradition of the Eastern Orthodox Church, the name of the woman at the well when she met Jesus is unknown, but she became a follower of Christ, received the name Photini in baptism, proclaimed the Gospel over a wide area, and was later martyred. She is recognized as a saint in the Eastern Orthodox Church.
Damned rich man
* Name:
Nineveh
:Source:
Coptic folklore
* Name: Phineas
:Source: Pseudo-
Cyprian
Cyprian (; la, Thaschus Caecilius Cyprianus; 210 – 14 September 258 AD''The Liturgy of the Hours according to the Roman Rite: Vol. IV.'' New York: Catholic Book Publishing Company, 1975. p. 1406.) was a bishop of Carthage and an early Christ ...
, ''De pascha computus''
* Name:
Dives
:Source: European Christian folklore
Appears in the Bible at .
''Dives'' is simply
Latin
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for "rich", and as such may not count as a proper name. The story of the blessed
Lazarus and the
damned rich man is widely recognised under the title of ''Dives and Lazarus'', which may have resulted in this word being taken for a proper name.
Woman taken in adultery
* Name:
Mary Magdalene
:Source: Western Christian tradition
Appears in the Bible at
John
John is a common English name and surname:
* John (given name)
* John (surname)
John may also refer to:
New Testament
Works
* Gospel of John, a title often shortened to John
* First Epistle of John, often shortened to 1 John
* Secon ...
8.
A long-standing Western Christian tradition first attested by
Pope Gregory I
Pope Gregory I ( la, Gregorius I; – 12 March 604), commonly known as Saint Gregory the Great, was the bishop of Rome from 3 September 590 to his death. He is known for instigating the first recorded large-scale mission from Rome, the Gregor ...
identifies the woman taken in
adultery
Adultery (from Latin ''adulterium'') is extramarital sex that is considered objectionable on social, religious, moral, or legal grounds. Although the sexual activities that constitute adultery vary, as well as the social, religious, and legal ...
with Mary Magdalene, and also with
Mary of Bethany
Mary of Bethany is a biblical figure mentioned only by name in the Gospel of John in the Christian New Testament. Together with her siblings Lazarus and Martha, she is described by John as living in the village of Bethany, a small village in Jud ...
. Jesus had
exorcised seven
demons out of Mary Magdalene (
Mark ), and Mary Magdalene appears prominently in the several accounts of Jesus' entombment and resurrection, but there is no indication in the Bible that clearly states that Mary Magdalene was the same person as the adulteress forgiven by Jesus. Roman Catholics also have identified Mary Magdalene as the weeping woman who was a sinner, and who anoints Jesus' feet in , and while the Church has dropped this interpretation to a degree, this remains one of her more famous portrayals.
The
Eastern Orthodox Church
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has never identified Mary Magdalene as either the woman taken in adultery, or the sinful woman who anointed Jesus' feet.
The man born blind
* Name:
Celidonius
:Source: Christian tradition
Appears in the Bible at
John
John is a common English name and surname:
* John (given name)
* John (surname)
John may also refer to:
New Testament
Works
* Gospel of John, a title often shortened to John
* First Epistle of John, often shortened to 1 John
* Secon ...
.
Pontius Pilate's wife
* Name: Claudia, Procla,
Procula, Perpetua or Claudia Procles
:Source: European folklore; Dolorous Passion of our Lord Jesus Christ (as "Claudia Procles")
Appears in the Bible at .
During the
trial of Jesus
Jesus, likely from he, יֵשׁוּעַ, translit=Yēšūaʿ, label=Hebrew/Aramaic ( AD 30 or 33), also referred to as Jesus Christ or Jesus of Nazareth (among other names and titles), was a first-century Jewish preacher and religious ...
the wife of
Pontius Pilate sent a message to him saying, "Have nothing to do with that just man; for I have suffered many things this day in a dream because of him."
The proposed names of Procla and Procula may not be names at all, but simply a form of Pilate's official title of
Procurator
Procurator (with procuracy or procuratorate referring to the office itself) may refer to:
* Procurator, one engaged in procuration, the action of taking care of, hence management, stewardship, agency
* ''Procurator'' (Ancient Rome), the title o ...
, indicating that she was the Procurator's wife.
Thieves crucified with Jesus
* Names: Titus and Dumachus
:Source: ''
Arabic Gospel of the Infancy of the Saviour''
* Names:
Dismas and
Gestas (or Gesmas)
:Source: ''
Acts of Pilate
The Acts of the Apostles ( grc-koi, Πράξεις Ἀποστόλων, ''Práxeis Apostólōn''; la, Actūs Apostolōrum) is the fifth book of the New Testament; it tells of the founding of the Christian Church and the spread of its messag ...
''
* Names: Demas (the
good thief)
:Source: ''
Narrative of Joseph of Arimathea
The Pilate cycle is a group of various pieces of early Christian literature that purport to either be written by Pontius Pilate, or else otherwise closely describe his activities and the Passion of Jesus. Unlike the four gospels, these later wri ...
''
* Name: Zoatham/Zoathan (the good thief)
:Source: ''
Codex Colbertinus''
* Name: Rakh (the good thief)
:Source:
Russian Orthodox
Russian Orthodoxy (russian: Русское православие) is the body of several churches within the larger communion of Eastern Orthodox Christianity, whose liturgy is or was traditionally conducted in Church Slavonic language. Most ...
tradition
Appear in the Bible at:
Matthew 27
Matthew 27 is the 27th chapter in the Gospel of Matthew, part of the New Testament in the Christian Bible. This chapter contains Matthew's record of the day of the trial, crucifixion and burial of Jesus. Scottish theologian William Robertson Ni ...
,
Mark 15,
Luke 23
Luke 23 is the twenty-third chapter of the Gospel of Luke in the New Testament of the Christian Bible. The book containing this chapter is anonymous, but early Christian tradition uniformly affirmed that Luke the Evangelist composed this Gospel as ...
,
John 19.
The good thief is revered under the name Saint Dismas in the Catholic Church and the
Coptic Orthodox Church.
Soldier who pierced Jesus with a spear
* Name:
Longinus
:Source: Apocryphal ''
Gospel of Nicodemus''
Gos. Nicodemus 7:8
Appears in the Bible at .
In tradition, he is called Cassius before his conversion to Christianity. The ''
Lance of Longinus'', also known as the ''
Spear of Destiny
A spear is a pole weapon consisting of a shaft, usually of wood, with a pointed head. The head may be simply the sharpened end of the shaft itself, as is the case with fire hardened spears, or it may be made of a more durable material fastene ...
'', is supposedly preserved as a
relic, and various miracles are said to be worked through it.
Man who offered Jesus vinegar
* Name: Agathon
:Source: ''
Codex Egberti
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Trier ( , ; lb, Tréier ), formerly known in English as Trèves ...
'', 10th century
Appears in the Bible at , , and .
Guard(s) at Jesus' tomb
* Name of centurion:
Petronius
:Source: Apocryphal ''
Gospel of Peter
The Gospel of Peter ( grc, κατά Πέτρον ευαγγέλιον, kata Petron euangelion), or the Gospel according to Peter, is an ancient text concerning Jesus Christ, only partially known today. It is considered a non-canonical gospel and ...
''
Gos. Peter 8
* Names of soldiers: Issachar, Gad, Matthias, Barnabas, Simon
:Source: ''
The Book of the Bee''
Appears in the Bible at . Centurion possibly appears also in the Bible at .
Ethiopian Eunuch baptized by the Apostle Philip
* Name: Simeon Bachos
:Source: ''
Adversus haereses
''Adversus Haereses'' is the commonly used Latin title for a book by the Church Father Irenaeus, Bishop of Lyon in Gaul (now France). It is also often cited as ''Against Heresies'' or ''On the Detection and Overthrow of the So-Called Gnosis''. I ...
'' (''Against the Heresies'', an early anti-
Gnostic
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theological work) 3:12:8 (180 AD)
* Name: Bachos
:Source:
Ethiopian Orthodox Tewahedo tradition
Appears in the Bible at
Acts of the Apostles 8:27.
In Eastern Orthodox tradition
he is known as an Ethiopian Jew with the name Simeon also called the Black, the same name he is given in the Acts of the Apostles 13:1.
Daughters of Philip
* Name:
Hermione
Hermione may refer to:
People
* Hermione (given name), a female given name
* Hermione (mythology), only daughter of Menelaus and Helen in Greek mythology and original bearer of the name
Arts and literature
* ''Cadmus et Hermione'', an opera by ...
; Eutychis; Irais and Chariline
:Source: Traditional. See
Daughters of Philip
Appears in the Bible at
Acts of the Apostles 21.8-9.
See also
*
Seventy Disciples
The seventy disciples or seventy-two disciples, known in the Eastern Christian traditions as the seventy apostles or seventy-two apostles, were early emissaries of Jesus mentioned in the Gospel of Luke. The correct Greek terminology is evdomik ...
References
Further reading
*"Names for the Nameless", in ''The Oxford Companion to the Bible'',
Bruce M. Metzger and
Michael D. Coogan, editors.
*"The
Poem of the Man God
''The Poem of the Man-God'' (Italian title: ''Il Poema dell'Uomo-Dio'') is a multi-volume book of about five thousand pages on the life of Jesus Christ written by Maria Valtorta. The current editions of the book bear the title ''The Gospel as Reve ...
", Centro Editoriale Valtortiano srl,
Maria Valtorta. (5 Volumes) no ISBN.
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