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| {{Short description|Eldest daughter of Job in the Bible}} | |||
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| ⚫ | '''Jemimah''' or '''Jemima''' ({{IPAc-en|dʒ|ə|ˈ|m|aɪ|m|ə}} {{respell|jə|MY|mə}}; {{langx|he|יְמִימָה|Yəmīmā}}) was the oldest of the three beautiful daughters of ], named in the Bible as given to him in the later part of his life, after God made Job prosperous again. Jemimah's sisters are named ] and ]. Job's sons, in contrast, are not named. | ||
| Jemimah, along with her sisters, was described as the most beautiful women in the land. Unusually, Jemimah and her sisters were granted inheritances by her father, along with their brothers ({{bibleverse||Job|42:15}}). Apart from these brief references at the end of the ], Jemimah is not mentioned elsewhere in the Bible. | |||
| ⚫ | The name Jemimah means "]".<ref name="BrandEngland2003">{{cite book|author1=Chad Brand|author2=Archie England|author3=Charles W. Draper|title=Holman Illustrated Bible Dictionary|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=OxG5AwAAQBAJ&pg=PT1254|date=1 October 2003|publisher=B&H Publishing Group|isbn=978-1-4336-6978-1|page=1254}}</ref> | ||
| Modern scholarship has cast doubt on the historical existence of the events described in the Book of Job.<ref name="Newsom2009">{{cite book|author=Carol A. Newsom|title=The Book of Job: A Contest of Moral Imaginations|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=LLSgQlNhwtoC&pg=PA38|date=29 June 2009|publisher=Oxford University Press|isbn=978-0-19-973115-2|page=39}}</ref><ref name="III2010">{{cite book|author=Tremper Longman III|title=How to Read Exodus|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=wUoiTyLqyTIC&pg=PA90|date=4 February 2010|publisher=InterVarsity Press|isbn=978-0-8308-7865-9|page=90}}</ref><ref name="Lemche2015">{{cite book|author=Niels Peter Lemche|title=Ancient Israel: A New History of Israel|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=TPtdCgAAQBAJ&pg=PA52|date=19 November 2015|publisher=Bloomsbury Publishing|isbn=978-0-567-66280-4|pages=52}}</ref> | |||
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| In ] 42:14 (]): | In ] 42:14 (]): | ||
| <blockquote>And he called the name of the first daughter Jemimah, and the name of the second Keziah, and the name of the third Keren-happuch</blockquote> | <blockquote>And he called the name of the first daughter Jemimah, and the name of the second Keziah, and the name of the third Keren-happuch</blockquote> | ||
| ==Possible Arabian queen== | |||
| The Christian theologian ] notes that Jemima may mean either "day" or "dove", the latter by association with the Arabic word {{lang|ar|يمامة}} ''{{transl|ar|ALA|yamāmah}}''. Noting that there is a land in Arabia with the name ], which had a queen called ], he conjectures that the Biblical Jemima may be connected with the Yamamah of Arabic folklore.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://gill.biblecommenter.com/job/42.htm |title=Archived copy |accessdate=2010-09-09 |deadurl=yes |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20100913000605/http://gill.biblecommenter.com/job/42.htm |archivedate=2010-09-13 |df= }}</ref> | |||
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Eldest daughter of Job in the Bible For other people with the same name, see Jemimah (disambiguation). | This article relies largely or entirely on a single source. Relevant discussion may be found on the talk page. Please help improve this article by introducing citations to additional sources. Find sources: "Jemima" Bible – news · newspapers · books · scholar · JSTOR (September 2021) |
Jemimah or Jemima (/dʒəˈmaɪmə/ jə-MY-mə; Hebrew: יְמִימָה, romanized: Yəmīmā) was the oldest of the three beautiful daughters of Job, named in the Bible as given to him in the later part of his life, after God made Job prosperous again. Jemimah's sisters are named Keziah and Keren-Happuch. Job's sons, in contrast, are not named.
Jemimah, along with her sisters, was described as the most beautiful women in the land. Unusually, Jemimah and her sisters were granted inheritances by her father, along with their brothers (Job 42:15). Apart from these brief references at the end of the Book of Job, Jemimah is not mentioned elsewhere in the Bible.
The name Jemimah means "dove".
And he called the name of the first daughter Jemimah, and the name of the second Keziah, and the name of the third Keren-happuch
References
- Chad Brand; Archie England; Charles W. Draper (1 October 2003). Holman Illustrated Bible Dictionary. B&H Publishing Group. p. 1254. ISBN 978-1-4336-6978-1.
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