Can you name the eleven most-mentioned women in the Bible?

Times mentioned	Woman's Name	Hint
56		Wife of Abraham; gave birth at age 90
53		Jewish woman who became queen and saved her people from destruction
47		Jacob worked for 14 years so he could marry her
34		Jacob was tricked into marrying her first, instead of #3
31		Isaac's wife, and mother of Jacob and Esau
23		Wife of Ahab; comparing a woman to her is highly unflattering
19		Mother of Jesus
15		Wife of Nabal, and later, David
15		Sister of Moses and Aaron
14		Jesus delivered her from several demons
14		Abraham's concubine and mother of Ishmael

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Women in the Bible Quiz

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Created by: bobkat74 -
Contributed: November 8th, 2009
Published: December 28th, 2009
Category: Religion
Plays: 81,417

Tags: Bible Quizzes, mentioned, women, woman, eleven, Editor Pick

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	emanuel:	Dec 28th, 2009 at 15:52 GMT	4 points
	izevel or ezevel should be accepted because that's how it is in hebrew and i didnt know it in english (if anything, i would have guessed isabelle).

	jennifer8:	Dec 28th, 2009 at 15:58 GMT	42 points
	Amazing that one of the two women with an entire book named after her (Ruth) didn't make the list.

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	kagomeshuko:	Dec 28th, 2009 at 18:35 GMT	0 points
	Very good quiz! Missed only one!

	jsftrey:	Dec 28th, 2009 at 20:01 GMT	7 points
	Benny6 - before making a comment like that you should have checked first to verify. Esther is after Nehemiah in the modern Bible

	madhatter22:	Dec 28th, 2009 at 21:14 GMT	5 points
	I was surprised about Ruth too Jennifer! I would've thought Eve would have more mentions too. Maybe Salome ... Delilah ... I guess those stories are memorable but short. =) I'm no bible scholar, but the one I missed (wife of Nabal) I've never heard of. Interesting! Fun quiz.

	bekah:	Dec 28th, 2009 at 23:16 GMT	5 points
	thanks for saying "rebekah" instead of "rebecca" as a rebekah im always glad to see my name spelled right in a quiz!

	RavJosh:	Dec 28th, 2009 at 23:22 GMT	2 points
	easy enough. Surprised Deborah wasn't mentioned more.

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	dark_chocolate:	Dec 29th, 2009 at 00:51 GMT	8 points
	@brmtheterrorist: please don't post stuff like that on sporcle!

	trumpetchic94:	Dec 29th, 2009 at 01:31 GMT	6 points
	i agree with you dark_chocolate. seriously, if u were trying to be funny, well.... it wasnt

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	k3lit0:	Dec 29th, 2009 at 01:49 GMT	-1 points
	Never heard of Nabal's wife! I thought Jacob's was 'Leigh' my bad :( Also totally forgot Abraham's..concubine.. I remembered her but not her name. Good quiz!

	match:	Dec 30th, 2009 at 14:18 GMT	-3 points
	good quiz - could've put many more on there though! Samson's wife was an obvious omission.

	dark_chocolate:	Dec 30th, 2009 at 15:48 GMT	2 points
	@match: it's only the most mentioned women. i guess she wasn't mentioned enough. i was surprised too.

	dbcint:	Dec 31st, 2009 at 00:36 GMT	-1 points
	I would think that a source that has the word "complete" in it's title would include all of them. I was surprised not to see Tamar or Rahab, as they're both mentioned in the geneology of Jesus

	distortednerd:	Jan 6th, 2010 at 01:50 GMT	1 point
	I was looking for a description of Ruth or Naomi...surprised I didn't find those on here but good quiz :)

	jef:	Jan 14th, 2010 at 23:42 GMT	-2 points
	@Benny6 you are correct that Esther is a separate scroll from the 5 books of the Torah, but she is still included in the book of ktuvim, writings and @jsftrey i could be wrong, but i believe that the order is esther, daniel, ezra, and then nehemiah after nehemiah are chronicles 1 and 2

	superkat:	May 20th, 2010 at 16:29 GMT	3 points
	jef, you're wrong :) ezra,nehemiah,esther. daniel doesn't appear for a while, not till the prophets- Hosea, Obadiah etc.

	RAA:	Aug 15th, 2010 at 23:29 GMT	0 points
	end woman suffrage! they shouldn't have to suffer so much :(

	greatness:	Sep 5th, 2010 at 14:10 GMT	0 points
	i like dis game really good

	Meltha:	Sep 28th, 2010 at 00:05 GMT	0 points
	I wonder where Judith would fall in this.

	Meltha:	Nov 11th, 2010 at 21:33 GMT	0 points
	To answer my own theorhetical question, aside from the actual title of the book, the word "Judith" appears 31 times, which would tie her with Rebekah.

	Sforzando:	Dec 31st, 2010 at 21:29 GMT	2 points
	Now it's very interesting to compare the numbers here with those in my quiz for the whole Bible; http://www.sporcle.com/games/Sforzando/bible_200, and it's good to see that the differences in the numbers for the women you've given are small or non-existent. I'm happy to put them down to the different translations used, or my mistakes in counting. However - and this is quite important! - my count does reveal that the following women should be listed on here; Naomi (28 mentions); Zeruiah mother of Joab (26 mentions); Ruth (21 mentions); Michal wife of David (18 mentions); Athaliah queen of Judah (15 mentions); Hannah mother of Samuel (14 mentions); Tamar daughter of David (14 mentions). If you don't believe me, feel free to do a word-count on the NIV; I might be wrong. With some of the less-mentioned women I can believe differences in translations might sort out the problem, but I have a hard time believing Ruth, Naomi or Zeruiah wouldn't make it into the top ten no matter what translation you use. So it looks as though your quiz ought to have 18 names on it rather than 11. It's just a shame that this quiz has now been published and so can't be edited.

	beetlebailey:	Dec 31st, 2010 at 21:33 GMT	2 points
	Aaargh, I missed two because I couldn't spell them correctly!!

	moley:	Jan 9th, 2011 at 10:41 GMT	3 points
	Despite a Catholic upbringing I still couldn't spell Magdalene.