Zipporah

Gender: Female

Years: -1531 - -1491

Dictionary Text: A female bird. Reuel’s daughter, who became the wife of Moses. In consequence of the event recorded in, she and her two sons, Gershom and Eliezer, when so far on the way with Moses toward Egypt, were sent back by him to her own kinsfolk, the Midianites, with whom they sojourned till Moses afterwards joined them.

Family Members

• Father: Jethro
• Siblings:
  • Hobab
  • Eliasaph
• Children:
  • Eliezer
  • Gershom

Verses

• Exodus 4:25: Then Zipporah took a sharp stone, and cut off the foreskin of her son, and cast it at his feet, and said, Surely a bloody husband art thou to me.
• Exodus 18:2: Then Jethro, Moses’ father in law, took Zipporah, Moses’ wife, after he had sent her back,
• Exodus 2:21: And Moses was content to dwell with the man: and he gave Moses Zipporah his daughter.