Zipporah
Sign in to saveZipporah is mentioned in the Book of Exodus as the wife of Moses, and the daughter of Jethro, the priest and prince of Midian.
Key facts
- Person.name
- Zipporah
- Person.image
- Zipporah (cropped).jpg
- Person.alt
- Painting of Zipporah
- Person.caption
- Zipporah by John Ruskin after Botticelli, 1874
- Person.native_name
- צִפּוֹרָה
- Person.birth_date
- Region of Midian
- Person.death_date
- Unknown
- Person.spouse
- Moses
- Person.children
- Gershom (son)Eliezer (son)
- Person.parents
- Jethro
- Person.relatives
- Six sistersAaron (brother-in-law)Miriam (sister-in-law)
- Person.native_name_lang
- he
- Person.known_for
- Being the wife of Moses
via Wikipedia infobox
Wikidata facts
- Gender
- female
- Spouse
- Moses
- Child
- Eliezer
- Father
- Jethro
- Occupation
- herder
- Performer
- Michelle Pfeiffer
- Image
- Sandro Botticelli 035.jpg
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- P12749
- Mesonychia
- present in work
- Exodus: Gods and Kings
- name in native language
- צפורה
- Commons category
- Zipporah
- described by source
- Bible Encyclopedia of Archimandrite Nicephorus
Sources (1)
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Encyclopedic overview
12 sectionsContents
- Biblical narrative
- Background
- Moses marries Zipporah
- Incident at the inn
- The Exodus
- Numbers 12
- In the Druze religion
- In literature and the arts
- See also
- Notes
- References
- Further reading
Zipporah is mentioned in the Book of Exodus as the wife of Moses, and the daughter of Jethro, the priest and prince of Midian.
She is the mother of Moses' two sons: Eliezer and Gershom.
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