| A | B |
|---|
| Eve | the first woman |
| Mary of Nazareth | the mother of Jesus |
| Sarah | the first Matriarch, the wife of Abraham, and the mother of Isaac |
| Rebeka | the second Matriarch, the mother of Jacob and Esau |
| Leah | the thrid Matriarch, the first wife of Jacob |
| Rachel | the fourth Matriarch, the second and beloved wife of Jacob |
| Lot's wife | turned into a pillar of salt for looking back at Sodom as it was being destroyed |
| Huldah | a prophetess consulted after the discovery of a book of the Law in Solomon's temple |
| Deborah | a judge, prophetess, and warrior in the book of Judges |
| Miriam | a prophetess and the sister of Moses and Aaron, |
| Hannah | the mother of Samuel |
| Abigail | the prudent wife (then widow) of Nabal who became one of David's wives |
| Esther (or Hadassah) | the Jewish queen of King Ahasuerus who saved her people from genocide |
| Anna | an aged prophetess who prophesied over the baby Jesus at the Temple |
| Rahab | a "harlot" who hid Joshua's spies and helped defeat Jericho |
| Tamar | a daughter-in-law of Jacob's who gave birth to twins by Jacob |
| Abishag | a concubine of the aged King David |
| Bathsheba | the wife of Uriah the Hittite and later of King David; mother of Solomon |
| Bilhah | Rachel's handmaid and mother of two of Jacob's sons, Dan and Naphtali |
| Delilah | the woman Samson loved and who led to his downfall |
| Dinah | a daughter of Jacob, raped by Shechem, and avenged by Simeon and Levi |
| Dorcas (Tabitha) | a charitable disciple of Christ in Joppa who was raised from the dead by Peter |
| Elisabeth | mother of John the Baptist and wife of Zacharias |
| Hagar | Egyptian handmaid of Abraham and mother of his son, Ishmael |
| Jezebel | a powerful queen, Ahab's wife, and patron of false prophets |
| Joanna | one of the three women who went to prepare Jesus' body for burial |
| Jochebed | mother of Moses, Aaron, and Miriam |
| Keturah | Abraham's wife after Sarah's death |
| Lydia | an early convert to Christianity and "a seller of purple" |
| Martha | the practical sister to Lazarus and Mary of Bethany |
| Mary of Bethany | the spiritually focussed sister of Lazarus and Martha |
| Mary of Magdala (or Mary Magdalene) | cleanesed by Jesus "of seven demons," she became a disciple and his close friend |
| Mary, the mother of James | one of the three women who went to prepare Jesus' body for burial |
| Michal | daughter of Saul and wife of David |
| Naomi | mother-in-law to Ruth |
| Ruth | a Moabitess faithful to her mother-in-law; wife of Boaz; ancestor to King David |
| Phoebe | a deacon or servant (diakonon) in the church of Cenchreae |
| Priscilla | wife of Aquilla and missionary partner to Paul |
| Rhoda | the servant who was too excited by Peter's miraculous present and did not let him in |
| Sapphiria | the wife of Anaias, killed with him for lying to the Holy Spirit |
| Tamar | a daughter of David's raped by half-brother Amnon and avenged by full-brother Absalom |
| Vashti | the wife and of King Ahasuerus before Esther |
| Zilpah | Leah's handmaid and the mother of two of Jabob's sons, Gad and Asher |
| Zipporah | Moses' wife who saved Moses from death at God's hand by circumcising their son with a flint knife |
| Gomer | a supposed protitute, taken as an object-lesson wife by the prophet Hosea |
| Potiphar's wife | attempted to seduce Joseph while he was a slave in Egypt |
| Eunice | a faithful believer and the mother of Timothy |
| Lois | a faithful believer and the grandmother of Timothy |
| Tirzah | one of five sisters who caused God to rule inheritance laws include daughters if there are no sons |
| Jemima | one of Job's three "replacement daughters" at the end of the story |
