Women’s History Month
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12 WOMEN IN THE BIBLE
Women play an important role in history. This is the month that history making women are celebrated in the United States. Below is a list of women in the Old Testament that are mentioned in the God-inspired writings. These women played a part as heroines, wives, mothers, warriors, daughters etc. Which one is familiar to you? Which woman do you identify with? Who has a story that you want to read again?
Do some bible research on the scriptures listed below. Hopefully you will find there is more illumination for you in these stories.
1. EVE
a. Meaning ‘mother of all living’.
b. Genesis 3:20
2. SARAH
a. Meaning ‘princess’
b. Genesis 11:29
3. RACHEL
a. Meaning ‘the daughter’
b. Genesis 29:28
4. LEAH
a. Meaning ‘weary’
b. Genesis 29:16
5. JOCHEBED
a. Meaning ‘Yahweh is glory or God’s glory’
b. Exodus 6:20
6. HANNAH
a. Meaning ‘Favour, grace’
b. 1st Samuel 1
7. PENINNAH
a. Meaning ‘pearl, precious stone, the face’
b. 1st Samuel 1:2, 4
8. RUTH
a. Meaning ‘comrade or companion’
b. Ruth
9. NAOMI
a. Meaning ‘pleasant’
b. Ruth 1
10. ESTHER
a. Meaning ‘secret, hidden’
b. Esther
11. DEBORAH
a. Meaning ‘bee’
b. Judges 4 and 5
12. JAEL
a. Meaning ‘one who ascends; a kid’, mountain goat
b. Judges 4
Women have a role in ministry that helps to promote the kingdom of God as well as add to the body of Christ. There are many others but I will leave that research to you if you are up to an in depth study of the women in the Bible. All of these women have a story. They are all attached to the story of a men that came along side of them. We need male and female in the body of Christ, remember that!
Your sister in Christ,
Trena
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