rachel (bible)
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Barabbas
Barabbas is a figure mentioned in the New Testament of the Bible, in which he is an insurrectionary held by the Roman governor at the same time as Jesus, and whom Pontius Pilate freed at the Passover feast in Jerusalem, while keeping Jesus as a prisoner.A...
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Lucifer
Satan, The Devil....
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Moses
Moses was a prophet in the Abrahamic religions. According to the Hebrew Bible, he was adopted by an Egyptian princess, and later in life became the leader of the Israelites and lawgiver, to whom the authorship of the Torah, or acquisition of the Torah fro...
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Job
Job is the central figure of the Book of Job in the Bible. In rabbinical literature, Job is called one of the prophets of the Gentiles. In Islam, Job is also considered a prophet....
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Pontius Pilate
Pontius Pilate was the fifth prefect of the Roman province of Judaea, serving under Emperor Tiberius from AD 26 to 36. He is best known today for the trial and crucifixion of Jesus. Traditionally is married to Claudia, Claudia Procula, or Procula....
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Hagar
Hagar is a biblical person in the Book of Genesis. She was an Egyptian slave/handmaid of Sarai (Sarah), who gave her to Abraham to bear a child. The product of the union was Abrahams firstborn, Ishmael, the progenitor of the Ishmaelites. Various com...
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Jezebel
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Caiaphas
Joseph ben Caiaphas (/ˈkaɪ.ə.fəs/; c. 14 BC – c. 46 AD)[citation needed], known simply as Caiaphas[a] in the New Testament, was the Jewish high priest during the years of Jesus ministry, according to Josephus.[1] The Gospels of Matthew, Luke and Joh...
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Gad
Gad was, according to the Book of Genesis, the first son of Jacob and Zilpah, the seventh of Jacob overall, and the founder of the Israelite Tribe of Gad. However some Biblical scholars view this as postdiction, an eponymous metaphor providing an aetiolog...
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Mary Magdalene
Mary Magdalene[a] (sometimes called Mary of Magdala, or simply the Magdalene, Magdalena or the Madeleine) was a woman who, according to the four canonical gospels, traveled with Jesus as one of his followers and was a witness to his crucifixion and resurr...
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Eve
Eve is a figure in the Book of Genesis in the Hebrew Bible. According to the creation account of the Abrahamic religions, she was the first woman. In Islamic tradition, Eve is known as Adams wife and the first woman although she is not specifically ...
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Ruth (bible)
Ruth is the title character of the Book of Ruth. In the narrative, she is not an Israelite but rather is from Moab; she marries an Israelite. Both her husband and her father-in-law die, and she helps her mother-in-law, Naomi, find protection. The two of t...
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Anna (bible)
Anna or Anna the Prophetess is a woman mentioned in the Gospel of Luke. According to that Gospel, she was an elderly woman of the Tribe of Asher who prophesied about Jesus at the Temple of Jerusalem. She appears in Luke 2:36–38 during the presentation of ...
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Bathsheba (bible)
Bathsheba was the wife of Uriah the Hittite and later of David, according to the Hebrew Bible. She is most known for the biblical narrative in which she was summoned by King David, who had seen her bathing and lusted after her. She was the mother of Solom...
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Judah (bible - Son Of Jacob)
Judah is the fourth son of the patriarch Jacob and his first wife, Leah: his full brothers are Reuben, Simeon and Levi (all older), and Issachar and Zebulun (younger) and one full sister Dinah. He has six half-brothers....
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Naomi (bible)
Naomi is Ruths mother-in-law in the Old Testament Book of Ruth. The etymology of her name is not certain, but it is possible that it means "good, pleasant, lovely, winsome."more...
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Boaz (bible)
Boaz is a biblical figure appearing in the Book of Ruth in the Hebrew Bible and in the genealogies of Jesus in the New Testament and also the name of a pillar in the portico of the historic Temple in Jerusalem. The word is found 24 times in the Scriptures...
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Isaac (bible)
According to the biblical Book of Genesis, Isaac was the son of Abraham and Sarah and father of Jacob; his name means "he will laugh", reflecting when Sarah laughed in disbelief when told that she would have a child. In the Bible, he is one of the three p...
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Aaron (bible)
Aaron is a prophet, high priest, and the brother of Moses in the Abrahamic religions (elder brother in the case of Judaism)....
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Abigail (bible)
Abigail was the wife of Nabal; she became a wife of the future King David after Nabals death (1 Samuel 25). Abigail was Davids third wife, after Sauls daughter, Michal, whom Saul later married to Palti, son of Laish when David went into ...
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Dinah (bible)
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Samson (bible)
Samson was the last of the judges of the ancient Israelites mentioned in the Book of Judges in the Hebrew Bible (chapters 13 to 16) and one of the last of the leaders who "judged" Israel before the institution of the monarchy. The biblical account states ...
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Delilah (bible)
Delilah is a woman mentioned in the sixteenth chapter of the Book of Judges in the Hebrew Bible. She is loved by Samson, a Nazirite who possesses great strength and serves as the final Judge of Israel. Delilah is bribed by the lords of the Philistines to ...
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Jonathan (bible)
Jonathan is a heroic figure in 1 Samuel in the Hebrew Bible. A prince of the United Kingdom of Israel, he was the eldest son of King Saul as well as a close friend of David, who eventually succeeded Saul as king. Like his father, he was a man of great str...
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Rehoboam
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Abihu
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Nadab
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Jesus
Jesus[e] (c. 4 BC – c. AD 30 / 33) was a first-century Jewish preacher and religious leader. He is the central figure of Christianity. Jesus Christ is the designation of Jesus of Nazareth (d. c. 30 CE), who was an itinerant Jewish prophet from the Galilee...
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Peter (apostle)
Saint Peter[note 1] (died between AD 64 and 68),[1] also known as Peter the Apostle, Simon Peter, Simeon, Simon, or Cephas (lit. rock),[6] was one of the Twelve Apostles of Jesus Christ and one of the first leaders of the early Christian Churc...
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Noah (bible)
Noah, also spelled Noe, the hero of the biblical Flood story in the Old Testament book of Genesis, the originator of vineyard cultivation, and, as the father of Shem, Ham, and Japheth, the representative head of a Semitic genealogical line. A synthesis of...
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Shem (bible)
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Ham (bible)
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Japheth (bible)
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Sarah (bible)
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Rebecca (bible)
Rebecca appears in the Hebrew Bible as the wife of Isaac and the mother of Jacob and Esau. According to biblical tradition, Rebecca was the daughter of Bethuel the Aramean from Paddan Aram, also called Aram-Naharaim, and sister of Laban the Aramean. She w...
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Saul (biblical King)
Saul, according to the Hebrew Bible, was the first king of the Kingdom of Israel and Judah. His reign, traditionally placed in the late 11th century BCE, marked a transition from a tribal society to statehood....
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Balak
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Balaam (bible)
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Eleazar
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Joseph (son Of Jacob)
Sold into slavery by his jealous brothers, Joseph son of Jacob rose to become vizier, the second most powerful man in Egypt next to Pharaoh, where his presence and office caused Israel to leave Canaan and settle in Egypt....
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Gideon (bible)
Gideon or Gedeon, also named Jerubbaal, and Jerubbesheth, was a military leader, judge and prophet whose calling and victory over the Midianites are recounted in chapters 6 to 8 of the Book of Judges in the Hebrew Bible. Gideon was the son of Joash, from ...
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Judas Iscariot
Judas Iscariot (died c. 30 – c. 33 AD) was a disciple and one of the original Twelve Disciples of Jesus Christ. According to all four canonical gospels, Judas betrayed Jesus to the Sanhedrin in the Garden of Gethsemane by kissing him and addressing him as...
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Samuel (bible)
Samuel is a figure who, in the narratives of the Hebrew Bible, plays a key role in the transition from the period of the biblical judges to the institution of a kingdom under Saul, and again in the transition from Saul to David. He is venerated as a proph...
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Hannah (bible)
Hannah is one of the wives of Elkanah mentioned in the First Book of Samuel. According to the Hebrew Bible she was the mother of Samuel....
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Solomon (king Of Israel)
Solomon (/ˈsɒləmən/),[a] also called Jedidiah,[b] was monarch of ancient Israel and the son and successor of King David, according to the Hebrew Bible and the Old Testament.[4][5] He is described as having been the penultimate ruler of an amalgamated Isra...
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Jacob (bible - Son Of Isaac)
Jacob, Hebrew Yaʿaqov, Arabic Yaʿqūb, also called Israel, Hebrew Yisraʾel, Arabic Isrāʾīl, Hebrew patriarch who was the grandson of Abraham, the son of Isaac and Rebekah, and the traditional ancestor of the people of Israel. Stories about Jacob in the Bib...
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Rachel (bible)
Rachel (Hebrew: רָחֵל Rāḥêl, meaning ewe) was a Biblical figure, the favorite of Jacobs two wives, and the mother of Joseph and Benjamin, two of the twelve progenitors of the tribes of Israel. Rachels father was Laban. Her older s...
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David (bible)
David (/ˈdeɪvɪd/; Biblical Hebrew: דָּוִד, romanized: Dāwīḏ, "beloved one")[a][4] was, according to the Hebrew Bible, the third king of the United Kingdom of Israel.[5][6] Historians of the Ancient Near East agree that David probably lived around 1000 BC...
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Issachar
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Melchizedek
Melchizedek was the priest-king of Salem who lived during the time of Abram and at that time was one of the kings involved in the war against Sodom and Gomorrah. Melchizedek was the first of the priestly Order of Melchizedek (of which is an eponym of him)...
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Michal (bible)
Michal was, according to the first Book of Samuel, a princess of the United Kingdom of Israel; the younger daughter of King Saul, she was the first wife of David (1 Samuel 18:20–27), who later became king, first of Judah, then of Israel....
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Satan
Satan, also known as the Devil, is an entity in the Abrahamic religions that seduces humans into sin or falsehood. In Christianity and Islam, he is usually seen as either a fallen angel or a jinn, who used to possess great piety and beauty, but rebelled a...
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Jonah (bible)
Jonah or Jonas is the name given in the Hebrew Bible to a prophet of the northern kingdom of Israel in about the 8th century BCE. He is the eponymous central figure of the Book of Jonah, in which he is called upon by God to travel to Nineveh and warn its ...
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Ahinoam (bible)
A woman from Jezreel, who became Davids second wife, after he fled from Saul, leaving Michal, his first-ever wife, behind, and the mother of Amnon, Davids first-born.more...
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Reuben (bible)
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Levi (bible)
Levi (/ˈliːvaɪ/ LEE-vy; Hebrew: לֵוִי, Modern: Levī, Tiberian: Lēwī) was, according to the Book of Genesis, the third of the six sons of Jacob and Leah (Jacobs third son), and the founder of the Israelite Tribe of Levi (the Levites, including the K...
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Simeon Son Of Jacob (bible)
According to the Book of Genesis, Simeon (Hebrew: שִׁמְעוֹן, Modern: Šimōn, Tiberian: Šimeōn) was the second son of Jacob and Leah, and the founder of the Israelite Tribe of Simeon.more...
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Zebulon (bible)
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Absalom (bible)
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Adonijah
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Mephibosheth
According to the Books of Samuel of the Tanakh, Mephibosheth was the son of Jonathan, grandson of King Saul and father of Mica or Micha. According to the biblical narrative, Mephibosheth was five years old when both his father and grandfather died at the ...
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Benjamin (bible)
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Asher (bible)
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Naphtali (bible)
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Dan (bible)
According to the Book of Genesis, Dan was the fifth son of Jacob and the first son of Bilhah. He was the founder of the Israelite Tribe of Dan. In the biblical account, Dans mother is described as Rachels handmaid, who becomes one of Jacob&apo...
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Ishmael (bible)
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Nathan (bible)
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Joab (bible)
Joab the son of Zeruiah, was the nephew of King David and the commander of his army, according to the Hebrew Bible....
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Laban (bible)
Laban is a figure in the Book of Genesis of the Hebrew Bible. He was the brother of Rebekah, who married Isaac and bore Jacob. Laban welcomed his nephew as a young man, and set him the stipulation of seven years labour before he permitted him to mar...
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Amnon (bible)
Amnon was the oldest son of King David and his third wife, Ahinoam of Jezreel. He was born in Hebron during his fathers reign in Judah. He was the heir apparent to the throne of Israel until he was assassinated by his half-brother Absalom to avenge ...
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Bilhah (bible)
Bilhah is a person mentioned in the Book of Genesis. Genesis 29:29 describes her as Labans handmaid, who was given to Rachel to be her handmaid on Rachels marriage to Jacob. When Rachel failed to have children, Rachel gave Bilhah to Jacob as a...
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Zilpah (bible)
In the Book of Genesis, Zilpah (זִלְפָּה "meaning uncertain," Standard Hebrew Zilpa, Tiberian Hebrew Zilpāh) was Leahs handmaid, presumed slave, whom Leah gave to Jacob "to wife" to bear him children (Genesis 30:9). Zilpah gave birth to two sons, wh...
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Hezekiah (bible)
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Manasseh Of Judah (king)
Manasseh (/məˈnæsə/; Hebrew: מְנַשֶּׁה Mənaššé, "Forgetter"; Akkadian: ...
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Jeroboam (bible)
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Abraham (bible)
Abraham[a] (originally Abram)[b] is the common Hebrew patriarch of the Abrahamic religions, including Judaism, Christianity, and Islam.[5] In Judaism, he is the founding father of the special relationship between the Jews and God; in Christianity, he is t...
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Esau (bible)
Esau[a] is the elder son of Isaac in the Hebrew Bible. He is mentioned in the Book of Genesis[3] and by the prophets Obadiah[4] and Malachi.[5] The Christian New Testament alludes to him in the Epistle to the Romans[6] and in the Epistle to the Hebrews.[7...
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Leah (bible)
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Joshua (bible)
Joshua is the central figure in the Hebrew Bibles Book of Joshua. According to the books of Exodus, Numbers and Joshua, he was Moses assistant and became the leader of the Israelite tribes after the death of Moses. His name was Hoshea (ה...
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Miriam (bible)
Miriam is described in the Hebrew Bible as the daughter of Amram and Jochebed, and the sister of Moses and Aaron. She was a prophetess and first appears in the Book of Exodus. The Torah refers to her as "Miriam the Prophetess" and the Talmud names her as ...
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Caleb (bible)
Caleb, in the Old Testament, one of the spies sent by Moses from Kadesh in southern Palestine to spy out the land of Canaan. Only Caleb and Joshua advised the Hebrews to proceed immediately to take the land; for his faith Caleb was rewarded with the promi...
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Cain (bible)
Cain[a] is a Biblical figure in the Book of Genesis within Abrahamic religions. He is the elder brother of Abel, and the firstborn son of Adam and Eve, the first couple within the Bible.[1] He was a farmer who gave an offering of his crops to God. However...
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Abel (bible)
Abel[a] is a Biblical figure in the Book of Genesis within Abrahamic religions. He was the younger brother of Cain, and the younger son of Adam and Eve, the first couple in Biblical history.[1] He was a shepherd who offered his firstborn flock up to God a...
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God
The supernatural being conceived as the perfect and omnipotent and omniscient originator and ruler of the universe; the object of worship in monotheistic religions....
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Judith (bible)
Judith is the protagonist of the Book of Judith from the Old Testament. She uses her charm to seduce Holofernes, but then she beheads him, allowing Israel to counter-attack the Assyrians....
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Adam (bible)
Adam is the name used in the opening chapters of the Book of Genesis and in the Quran for the first man created by God, but it is also used in a collective sense as "mankind" and individually as "a human". Biblical Adam (man, mankind) is created from adam...
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Tamar (bible)
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Mary (mother Of Jesus)
Mary[c] was a first-century Judean woman of Nazareth,[6] the wife of Joseph and the mother of Jesus. She is a central figure of Christianity, venerated under various titles such as virgin or queen, many of them mentioned in the Litany of Loreto. The Easte...
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Elisha (bible Prophet)
Elisha (/əˈlaɪʃə/;[1] Hebrew: אֱלִישָׁע, Modern: ʼElīšaʻ, Tiberian: ʼĔlīšāʻ, "My God is salvation" or "God is my salvation", Greek: Ἐλισ[σ]αῖος, Elis[s]aîos or Ἐλισαιέ, Elisaié, Latin: Eliseus) was, according to the Hebrew Bible, a prophet and a wonder-w...