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What else does that same verse call her?\", opts:[\"A prophetess\",\"A queen\",\"A priestess\",\"A scribe\"], correct:0, fact:\"\\\"And Deborah, a prophetess, the wife of Lapidoth, she judged Israel at that time.\\\" She is the only woman the Bible names as a judge.\", ref:\"Judges 4:4\"},\n    {q:\"Two Moabite widows started for Bethlehem with Naomi. One turned back \u2014 what was her name?\", opts:[\"Orpah\",\"Peninnah\",\"Rizpah\",\"Milcah\"], correct:0, fact:\"\\\"Orpah kissed her mother in law; but Ruth clave unto her.\\\" One goodbye, one refusal to leave.\", ref:\"Ruth 1:14\"},\n    {q:\"What did Rahab hide the two Israelite spies under, up on her roof in Jericho?\", opts:[\"Stalks of flax\",\"Sacks of grain\",\"Fishing nets\",\"Empty clay jars\"], correct:0, fact:\"She had laid the flax out in order on the roof and tucked two men underneath it.\", ref:\"Joshua 2:6\"},\n    {q:\"Jael ended the commander Sisera while he slept in her tent. What did she use?\", opts:[\"A tent nail and a hammer\",\"A sword\",\"A millstone\",\"A jawbone\"], correct:0, fact:\"She \\\"took a nail of the tent, and took an hammer in her hand, and went softly unto him.\\\"\", ref:\"Judges 4:21\"},\n    {q:\"What name did Naomi ask to be called when she came home to Bethlehem in grief?\", opts:[\"Mara\",\"Rizpah\",\"Keturah\",\"Basmath\"], correct:0, fact:\"\\\"Call me not Naomi, call me Mara: for the Almighty hath dealt very bitterly with me.\\\" The book does not rush her out of it.\", ref:\"Ruth 1:20\"},\n    {q:\"Hannah prayed so quietly at Shiloh that Eli the priest assumed what about her?\", opts:[\"That she was drunk\",\"That she was mute\",\"That she was a foreigner\",\"That she had fallen asleep\"], correct:0, fact:\"\\\"Only her lips moved, but her voice was not heard: therefore Eli thought she had been drunken.\\\"\", ref:\"1 Samuel 1:13\"},\n    {q:\"After Isaac was born, what did Sarah say God had made her do?\", opts:[\"Laugh\",\"Sing\",\"Dance\",\"Weep\"], correct:0, fact:\"\\\"God hath made me to laugh, so that all that hear will laugh with me.\\\" She had laughed once already, behind a tent door.\", ref:\"Genesis 21:6\"},\n    {q:\"Hagar met the angel of the LORD by a well in the wilderness. What name did she give God there?\", opts:[\"\u201cThou God seest me\u201d\",\"\u201cThe LORD will provide\u201d\",\"\u201cThe LORD is my banner\u201d\",\"\u201cThe God of my salvation\u201d\"], correct:0, fact:\"A runaway servant with no standing at all is the first person in scripture recorded giving God a name.\", ref:\"Genesis 16:13\"},\n    {q:\"Before going to the king uninvited, what did Esther ask the Jews of Shushan to do for three days?\", opts:[\"Fast\",\"Sing\",\"March around the palace\",\"Send gifts to the court\"], correct:0, fact:\"\\\"Fast ye for me... and so will I go in unto the king, which is not according to the law: and if I perish, I perish.\\\"\", ref:\"Esther 4:16\"},\n    {q:\"Why did the queen of Sheba travel all the way to Jerusalem?\", opts:[\"To prove Solomon with hard questions\",\"To arrange a marriage\",\"To demand tribute\",\"To escape a famine\"], correct:0, fact:\"She had heard of his fame and \\\"came to prove him with hard questions.\\\" She left convinced.\", ref:\"1 Kings 10:1\"},\n    {q:\"After the prophets of Baal fell at Carmel, which queen sent a messenger threatening Elijah's life?\", opts:[\"Jezebel\",\"Athaliah\",\"Herodias\",\"Vashti\"], correct:0, fact:\"One threatening note sent the same prophet who had just called down fire running into the wilderness.\", ref:\"1 Kings 19:2\"},\n    {q:\"Jacob served seven years for Rachel. Who was he given on the wedding morning instead?\", opts:[\"Leah\",\"Bilhah\",\"Zilpah\",\"Dinah\"], correct:0, fact:\"\\\"In the morning, behold, it was Leah\\\" \u2014 and Jacob worked another seven years.\", ref:\"Genesis 29:25\"},\n    {q:\"After Israel crossed the sea, which sister of Aaron took a timbrel and led the women out dancing?\", opts:[\"Miriam\",\"Zipporah\",\"Jochebed\",\"Deborah\"], correct:0, fact:\"\\\"And Miriam the prophetess, the sister of Aaron, took a timbrel in her hand.\\\" Israel's first recorded worship song has a woman leading it.\", ref:\"Exodus 15:20\"},\n    {q:\"Two Hebrew midwives quietly refused Pharaoh's order to kill the baby boys. What were their names?\", opts:[\"Shiphrah and Puah\",\"Mahlah and Milcah\",\"Adah and Zillah\",\"Naamah and Judith\"], correct:0, fact:\"Exodus names two midwives and never names the Pharaoh they defied.\", ref:\"Exodus 1:15\"},\n    {q:\"Which woman loaded donkeys with loaves, wine and cakes of figs to keep David from bloodshed?\", opts:[\"Abigail\",\"Michal\",\"Bathsheba\",\"Ahinoam\"], correct:0, fact:\"Two hundred loaves, five dressed sheep, two hundred cakes of figs \u2014 and a speech that stopped an armed man in his tracks.\", ref:\"1 Samuel 25:18\"},\n    {q:\"Which daughter of Saul despised David in her heart when she saw him dancing before the ark?\", opts:[\"Michal\",\"Merab\",\"Rizpah\",\"Tamar\"], correct:0, fact:\"She \\\"looked through a window, and saw king David leaping and dancing before the LORD; and she despised him in her heart.\\\"\", ref:\"2 Samuel 6:16\"},\n    {q:\"When the lost book of the law turned up in the temple, which prophetess did the king's men go and consult?\", opts:[\"Huldah\",\"Deborah\",\"Noadiah\",\"Miriam\"], correct:0, fact:\"The high priest and the king's officials walked past every other advisor in Jerusalem to ask Huldah what it meant.\", ref:\"2 Kings 22:14\"},\n    {q:\"Which woman seized power and reigned over the land of Judah for six years?\", opts:[\"Athaliah\",\"Jezebel\",\"Jehosheba\",\"Maachah\"], correct:0, fact:\"\\\"And Athaliah did reign over the land\\\" \u2014 the only woman recorded ruling Judah outright.\", ref:\"2 Kings 11:3\"},\n    {q:\"The widow of Zarephath fed Elijah from her last handful of meal and little oil. What happened to them?\", opts:[\"They never ran out\",\"She was repaid in silver\",\"They turned to gold\",\"An angel refilled the barrel each night\"], correct:0, fact:\"\\\"The barrel of meal wasted not, neither did the cruse of oil fail.\\\" She gave away the last of it first.\", ref:\"1 Kings 17:16\"},\n    {q:\"Delilah did not cut Samson's hair with her own hands. What does Judges 16:19 say she actually did?\", opts:[\"Called for a man to shave off his seven locks\",\"Cut it with a bronze blade\",\"Burned it while he slept\",\"Bound it to a loom\"], correct:0, fact:\"\\\"She called for a man, and she caused him to shave off the seven locks of his head.\\\"\", ref:\"Judges 16:19\"},\n    {q:\"Rebekah offered to draw water for a stranger's camels until they finished. How many camels were there?\", opts:[\"Ten\",\"Three\",\"Seven\",\"Forty\"], correct:0, fact:\"Ten thirsty camels after a desert crossing \u2014 that is hours of hauling water, offered to a man she had never met.\", ref:\"Genesis 24:10,19\"},\n    {q:\"Dinah is the only daughter of Jacob the Bible names. Which of his wives was her mother?\", opts:[\"Leah\",\"Rachel\",\"Bilhah\",\"Zilpah\"], correct:0, fact:\"\\\"And Dinah the daughter of Leah, which she bare unto Jacob, went out to see the daughters of the land.\\\"\", ref:\"Genesis 34:1\"},\n    {q:\"Five sisters came to Moses to ask for their father's inheritance. Whose daughters were they?\", opts:[\"Zelophehad's\",\"Zebulun's\",\"Zadok's\",\"Zerubbabel's\"], correct:0, fact:\"Mahlah, Noah, Hoglah, Milcah and Tirzah asked, and the law was changed in their favour.\", ref:\"Numbers 27:1-7\"},\n    {q:\"Proverbs 31 says a virtuous woman's price is far above what?\", opts:[\"Rubies\",\"Gold\",\"Pearls\",\"Fine linen\"], correct:0, fact:\"\\\"Who can find a virtuous woman? for her price is far above rubies.\\\"\", ref:\"Proverbs 31:10\"},\n    {q:\"Which relative of Mary was already six months along with John the Baptist when Gabriel came?\", opts:[\"Elisabeth\",\"Anna\",\"Joanna\",\"Salome\"], correct:0, fact:\"\\\"Thy cousin Elisabeth, she hath also conceived a son in her old age... who was called barren.\\\"\", ref:\"Luke 1:36\"},\n    {q:\"Which widowed prophetess was in the temple to give thanks when the infant Jesus was brought in?\", opts:[\"Anna\",\"Hannah\",\"Elisabeth\",\"Priscilla\"], correct:0, fact:\"Luke calls her a prophetess who \\\"departed not from the temple, but served God with fastings and prayers night and day.\\\"\", ref:\"Luke 2:36-38\"},\n    {q:\"Which woman's song begins, \u201cMy soul doth magnify the Lord\u201d?\", opts:[\"Mary\",\"Elisabeth\",\"Hannah\",\"Anna\"], correct:0, fact:\"Mary's answer to impossible news is not a question but a song.\", ref:\"Luke 1:46\"},\n    {q:\"Martha served while her sister sat and listened. 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Esther, a queen who walked into a throne room uninvited knowing it could cost her life. Mary, the mother of Jesus. Mary Magdalene, the first person to see Him alive again. Beyond those, the roster gets deep fast: Hannah, Abigail, Huldah, Priscilla, Lydia, Phebe, Dorcas. The trivia round above pulls from all of them, plus a few most quizzes never touch.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Was there ever a female leader in the Bible?<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p>Yes, and more than one, in more than one kind of role. Deborah is the clearest case. Judges 4:4 calls her both a prophetess and a judge of Israel, and the general Barak flatly refuses to go into battle unless she comes with him. Miriam is named a prophetess and leads Israel in its first recorded worship song after the sea crossing. Huldah is the prophet the high priest and the king&#8217;s own officials go to when the lost book of the law is found in the temple, walking past every other advisor in Jerusalem to do it. Athaliah is a darker example, seizing the throne and reigning over Judah outright for six years. In the New Testament, Priscilla teaches the gifted preacher Apollos, Lydia hosts the first church in Philippi in her own house, and Paul introduces Phebe to the Romans as a servant of the church at Cenchrea. Leadership in scripture is not as one-shaped as people expect.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Which women are named in the genealogy of Jesus?<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p>Matthew opens his Gospel with a long list of fathers, and then breaks his own pattern five times to name a mother. Tamar appears in Matthew 1:3. Rachab, better known as Rahab of Jericho, and Ruth the Moabite both appear in verse 5. Verse 6 refuses to name Bathsheba directly and instead calls her the one who had been the wife of Urias, keeping David&#8217;s worst chapter in the record rather than tidying it away. And Mary closes the list in verse 16. What stands out is who they are: two of them are foreigners, and several of them come with complicated histories that a family trying to look respectable would have edited out. Matthew leaves them in. That is a deliberate choice about what kind of family line this is, made in the very first paragraph of the New Testament.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">What does the Bible actually say about the Proverbs 31 woman?<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p>The chapter is usually quoted as a checklist, which is not quite how it reads. It opens with a question rather than a command: who can find a virtuous woman, for her price is far above rubies. What follows is a portrait of someone remarkably active in the world. She evaluates a field and buys it. She plants a vineyard from her own earnings. She trades, makes and sells linen, extends her hand to the poor, and speaks with wisdom and kindness. She is not described sitting still. Then the chapter lands somewhere unexpected. Verse 25 says strength and honour are her clothing, and she shall rejoice in time to come, which has nothing to do with productivity at all. It is about facing the future without dread. Read that way, Proverbs 31 is less a performance standard and more a picture of a settled, unhurried life.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">How well do I actually know the women of the Bible?<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p>There is a quick way to find out. The trivia round at the top of this page pulls twelve questions at random from a bank of forty, every one of them tied to a specific chapter and verse you can go look up afterward. Some are the names you would expect. Others are the ones that tend to slip past: the two midwives who quietly ignored a Pharaoh&#8217;s execution order, the five sisters who asked Moses to change an inheritance law and won, the prophetess the king of Judah sent his officials to consult. There is no sign-up, no score kept against you, and a wrong answer just shows you the verse it came from. Because the round is drawn at random each time, it is a genuinely different set of twelve on a second or third play. Give it a go and see where you land.<\/p>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bible Trivia Bible Trivia: Women of the Bible Judges, queens, spies, midwives, merchants, and a handful of names most quizzes skip entirely. 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