1. Mary
   Bathsheba
2. Antiochus
   Lo–Ruhamah

Mary was the mother of Jesus, a pregnancy she had after a virgin birth. The story goes that the angel Gabriel visited her to tell her that she would have God's child prior to her pregnancy.

1. Junias
   Eve
2. Keturah
   Orpah

Eve is one of the many maligned women of the Bible, but it makes little sense to hold any of the first humans to modern standards. How could she know the consequences of her actions when no actions had yet had consequences?

1. Mary Magdalene
   Acsah
2. Basemeth
   Euodia

Mary Magdalene is one of the most famous characters in the Bible. She was a follower of Jesus and some have theorized she was his wife, though there is little hard evidence of this.

1. Tabitha
   Sarah
2. Shelomit
   Shelomit

Yes, Abraham's wife Sarah was also his half sister, but given some of the things biblical people got up to, it's not that big a deal in the grand scheme of things.

1. Euodia
   Rebecca
2. Hammolekheth
   Maacah

Isaac's wife was Rebecca, the daughter of Abraham’s nephew, Bethuel. Her sons were Esau and Jacob.

1. Orpah
   Junias
2. Lo–Ruhamah
   Rachel

Rachel was known for her beauty, and for being the mother of Benjamin and Joseph.

1. Leah
   Zeresh
2. Anna the Prophetess
   Cozbi

Leah was Jacob's first wife and mother of Judah, Issachar, Zebulun, Reuben, Simeon, Levi and Dinah. She wasn't Jacob's first choice, but she did bear him many kids.

1. Basemeth
   Acsah
2. Miriam
   Atarah

Miriam was the sister of Moses and Aaron, and she helped lead the Israelites to freedom from Egypt. She then led the Israelites in song, to celebrate their freedom and thank God.

1. Deborah
   Damaris
2. Eunice
   Me-Zahab

Deborah, the only female judge, is credited with telling Barak to fight the Canaanites. She is a saint in the Catholic Church.

1. Me-Zahab
   Lo–Ruhamah
2. Hammolekheth
   Hannah

Hannah is best known for being so desperate for a son that she prayed to God, promising that if she gave birth to a son, she would dedicate the child to God.

1. Keturah
   Abigail
2. Orpah
   Zeresh

Abigail was a very intelligent woman from a moneyed family who married David after the death of his wife, Nabal.

1. Eunice
   Basemeth
2. Huldah
   Dinah

Huldah prophesied divine judgment for Israel but a peaceful death for Josiah. She advised King Josiah after the discovery of “the book of the law in the house of the Lord”.

1. Maacah
   Hammolekheth
2. Gomer
   Atarah

The Bible intimates that Gomer was not faithful to her husband, though it does not specify that her three children were not her husband's issue.

1. Acsah
   Elizabeth
2. Mahlah
   Cozbi

Elizabeth was the wife of Zecheriah and the mother of John the Baptist. She appears in the Book of Luke.

1. Mahlah
   Hazelelponi
2. Eunice
   Orpah

A daughter of Etam, Hazelelponi was the sister of Jezreel, Ishma and Idbash. She's more of a supporting character than a major player.

1. Mahalath
   Lo–Ruhamah
2. Dinah
   Zeresh

Mahalath is the third wife of Esau mentioned in the Bible.

1. Susanna
   Acsah
2. Keturah
   Basemeth

Susanna is mentioned in the 8th chapter of the Gospel of Luke, described as taking care of Jesus out of her personal resources.

1. Mahlah
   Zipporah
2. Hushim
   Euodia

Zipporah was the daughter of Jethro, the shepherd Moses met in the desert after leaving Egypt as a young man. Zipporah and Moses married after Moses dealt with some competing shepherds.

1. Zilpah
   Maacah
2. Cozbi
   Keturah

Zilpah was Leah's handmaid. Leah "gave" her to Isaac to produce children, and Zilpah did not disappoint, producing two sons who Leah raised as hers, naming them Gad and Asher.

1. Atarah
   Basemeth
2. Zeresh
   Orpah

Zeresh is best remembered as advising Haman on the creation of huge gallows to use in the execution of Mordachi. To her horror, those gallows were used on Haman and his sons.

1. Tirzah
   Acsah
2. Keturah
   Junias

Tirzah and her sisters approached Moses upon the death of their father, asking to inherit his estate. Moses asked God, and God said it would be so. As a result, Jewish women have always been allowed to inherit their families' estates.

1. Tamar
   Dinah
2. Eunice
   Lo–Ruhamah

Tamar married two of Judah's sons, producing children for neither man. Both men died, presumably by divine judgement, and Tamar was cast out by Judah. She disguised herself as a prostitute and approached her widowed father, who had sex with her. Before she could be executed for prostitution, she proved to Judah that he was the father, and so she and her child lived.

1. Maacah
   Atarah
2. Cozbi
   Euodia

Euodia is mentioned as one half of two Christian women who get into an argument, and are told to "agree with the Lord," thus ending the argument.

1. Zeresh
   Junias
2. Sheerah
   Acsah

Sheerah is credited with building Lower Beth-horon, Upper Beth-horon, and Uzzen-sheerah, three cities of the day. It is unclear how she did this, but she was a name worth putting on your city, so she must have been a big deal.

1. Sapphira
   Dinah
2. Hammolekheth
   Hushim

Ananias and Sapphira basically lied to the tax man and died for it. Unfortunately for them, the tax man was God.

1. Salome
   Basemeth
2. Orpah
   Keturah

The daughter of Herod II, Salome is best known for asking for the head of John the Baptist. She danced for Herod II on his birthday, and this somehow convinced him to obtain the head as requested.

1. Rizpah
   Acsah
2. Atarah
   Damaris

Rizpah was one of Saul's concubines, and bore him children. When David conquered all of ancient Israel, he had Saul's heirs executed. Rizpah sat by the bodies of her children for as long as they were left outside, to keep them from being devoured by carrion eaters. Her watch ended when David had them buried.

1. Maacah
   Rhoda
2. Atarah
   Cozbi

Rhoda was a servant girl who is mostly known for answering the door when Peter was released from prison. In her excitement, she went to tell the Christians inside the house rather than open the door to let Peter in.

1. Hammolekheth
   Euodia
2. Basemeth
   Vashti

When King Ahasuerus of Persia asked his wife Vashti to display her beauty for his friends, she refused, and was banished and replaced by Ester, and the beginning of the story of Purim begins.

1. Junias
   Orpah
2. Naomi
   Lo–Ruhamah

Naomi was the mother-in-law of Ruth, and encouraged Ruth to pursue Boaz when Naomi realized that Boaz was interested in Ruth. While some have characterized this as scheming, isn't it what anyone would do for their single relatives?

1. Jezebel
   Lois
2. Orpah
   Michal

Michal was the first wife of King David. A daughter of Saul, her marriage to David was to cement an alliance that would determine the fate of nations.

1. Baara
   Candace
2. Lydia of Thyatira
   Jerioth

Lydia of Thyatira was a seller of "purple," probably meaning purple dye, a luxury item of the age. When she heard the call of her faith, she had herself and her family baptized.

1. Jerusha
   Aholibamah
2. Merab
   Noadiah

Aholibamah was a Canaanite woman who married Esau, who convinced her to change her name to Judith to pacify his family, who didn't appreciate him marrying someone outside the faith.

1. Keturah
   Junias
2. Asenath
   Lo–Ruhamah

Asenath was an Egyptian woman "given" to Joseph by the pharaoh to be Joseph's wife. Her father was a high priest of Heliopolis, and her sons were the patriarchs of two major Hebrew tribes.

1. Hagar
   Keturah
2. Julia
   Junia

Keturah is variously referred to as a concubine of Abraham and as "another wife" of Abraham. She bore him six children however, so either way, her place in history is assured.