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In the Book of Judges, it is stated that Deborah was a prophetess, a judge of Israel and the wife of Lapidoth. [5] [6] She rendered her judgments beneath a date palm tree between Ramah in Benjamin and Bethel in the land of Ephraim. [7] The people of Israel had been oppressed by Jabin, the king of Canaan, whose capital was Hazor, for twenty years.
Miriam was the daughter of Amram and Jochebed and the sister of Aaron and Moses, the leader of the Israelites in ancient Egypt. [7] The narrative of Moses's infancy in the Torah describes an unnamed sister of Moses observing him being placed in the Nile (); she is traditionally identified as Miriam.
[2] [5] She flourished between approximately 100 and 160 CE, with her influence as a prophetess widely recognized in the first half of the 2nd century. Scholars such as Christine Trevett and W.M. Ramsay align her ministry with the period following Quadratus, who was active in the 120s CE, and suggest she may have been succeeded by the Montanist ...
Huldah (Hebrew: חֻלְדָּה Ḥuldā) is a prophetess mentioned in the Hebrew Bible in 2 Kings 22:14–20 and 2 Chronicles 34:22–28. After the discovery of a book of the Law during renovations at Solomon's Temple, on the order of King Josiah, Hilkiah together with Ahikam, Acbor, Shaphan and Asaiah approach her to seek the Lord's opinion.
Anne Wentworth (prophetess) (17th century, persecuted by Baptists) John Reeve (religious leader) (1608–1658, co-founder of Muggletonianism) Lodowicke Muggleton (1609–1698, co-founder of Muggletonianism) Mary Cary (prophetess) (1621–1653, supporter of the Fifth Monarchists)
Hannah is also considered to be a prophetess: in her song of thanksgiving (1 Samuel 2:1–10) she is inspired “to discern in her own individual experience the universal laws of the divine economy, and to recognise its significance for the whole course of the Kingdom of God". [4]
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Sarah [a] (born Sarai) [b] is a biblical matriarch, prophet, and major figure in Abrahamic religions.While different Abrahamic faiths portray her differently, Judaism, Christianity, and Islam all depict her character similarly, as that of a pious woman, renowned for her hospitality and beauty, the wife and half-sister [1] of Abraham, and the mother of Isaac.