| What she did | Woman's Name | Book of Bible |
| Fought patriarchal system to keep her widowed mother-in-law from sliding into poverty | |
| A warrior, prophetess, judge, poet, and musician | |
| Raised her son, Hezekiah, to destroy idols, even in the face of her husband's royalty and idolatry | |
| First woman to inspire music, both of harp and organ | |
| Only ruling queen of Judah | |
| Wife of Aaron, first head of Hebrew priesthood, ancestress of entire Levitical priesthood | |
| Became wife of Ahasuerus (Xerxes), king of Persia, saved the Jews from genocide | |
| Abraham's handmaid, mother of Ishmael | |
| Mother of Moses, Miriam, and Aaron | |
| Midwife, disobeyed Pharaoh by not killing Hebrew sons | |
| Disobeyed her husband, a king, by not coming to dance for him and his drunk friends | |