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- proper noun The name of a Biblical
prophetess . - proper noun A female
given name , in occasional use.
Etymologies
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Examples
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The Tannaim assert that there were five gates to the Mount, two of which, known as the Huldah Gates, were the southern entrance to the Temple Mount (M Middot 1: 3).
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"Pap Turrentine!" called Huldah from the kitchen, "Maw wants ye out here."
Judith of the Cumberlands Alice MacGowan
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And as a prophetess, like Miriam, she anticipates later female prophetic figures, such as Huldah, who prophesied the end of Israel’s time in Canaan, and Noadiah, who appeared during the restoration from exile.
Deborah: Bible. 2009
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"Huldah," she said, smiling, her pretty blue eyes full of pleasure, and gratitude, and affection, "I found on Rob's back this morning, left there by the brownies, a basket so pretty and so dainty that everyone who has seen it wants one like it.
Dick and Brownie Mabel Quiller-Couch 1895
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"Huldah," she said, kindly, "if your -- if Mrs. Smith will come in and rest, I'll make her a cup of tea.
Dick and Brownie Mabel Quiller-Couch 1895
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Both Deborah and Huldah were prophets and therefore presumably knowledgeable in the law.
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According to one opinion, the prophet Huldah was also among her offspring (Sifrei on Numbers, chap. 78).
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II Kings 22: 14 has Huldah “living in Jerusalem in the Mishneh,” which the Aramaic Targum renders as “study hall,” i.e., academy, a place of Torah.
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A brother, Ephraim (b. 1899), was killed in the battle at Huldah during the 1929 riots.
Hannah Chizhik. 2009
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Another exegetical tradition lists Sarah among the seven women prophets, the others being Miriam, Deborah, Hannah, Abigail, Huldah and Esther.
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