Deborah
historical figure · 3 works · 4 mentions · 6 anchored passages
Dabūrā · the prophetess · دبورا
in the texts
Dissertations on Early Law and Custom
Prophetess counted among the Judges of Israel who judged the people.
She dwelt under the palm-tree of Deborah in Mount Ephraim, and all Israel came up to her for judgment.
Nevertheless, these Slavonian phenomena suggest that, even in the primitive militant communities, eminent capacity in a woman might overweigh the disadvantages of sex, and that every now and then a Deborah or an Artemisia might rule the tribe as the house-mother rules the house community.
Stromata
Deborah, prophetess and judge, wife of Lapidoth, who led Israel to victory over Jabim and ruled for forty years.
In his time Deborah prophesies, the wife of Lapidoth, of the tribe of Ephraim;
And of women (for these too prophesied), Sarah and Rebecca and Mariam and Deborah and Olda.
In the time of this Gotholia Elisha still prophesies, after whom reigns, as I said before, Joas, who was saved by Josabaia, the wife of Jodae the high priest;
Ansāb al-ʻArab al-qudamāʼ
The Hebrew name meaning bee, cited first among the early Hebrew animal names that show the habit was Semitic and pre-religious.
The Jews, in their earliest periods, followed this pattern in naming, and that is why you see among their ancient names many names of animals: