Though the meaning of the term prophet is here indeterminate, Miriam is the first woman ever to bear it. She becomes thereby the archetype of the female prophetic tradition, even as Moses heads the male (compare Deut 34:10).
1 The five prophetesses are Miriam, Deborah, Huldah, Noadiah and the unnamed prophet- ess of Isa. 8:3. Rabbinic sources account for seven prophetesses of the Bible among which Huldah is also mentioned: 'Forty eight prophets and seven prophetesses prophesied for Israel' (b. Megillah 14a).
A woman who has received a testimony of Jesus and enjoys the spirit of revelation. A prophetess does not hold the priesthood or its keys. Though only a few women in the scriptures are called prophetesses, many prophesied, such as Rebekah, Hannah, Elisabeth, and Mary. Miriam was called a prophetess, Ex. 15:20.
Anna is one of only a handful of women designated as prophetesses in the Bible, including Miriam, Deborah, Huldah, Isaiah's wife, and Philip's daughters. So how did Anna fulfill that role? She was constant in her prayer and fasting, reminding others of the redemption that God had promised for Israel.
In the Book of Judges, it is stated that Deborah was a prophet, a judge of Israel and the wife of Lapidoth.
Queen Esther, the Israeli Liberator
An example of beauty, humility, brains, and courage, Esther is portrayed as the Jewish queen of the Persian king Ahasuerus (Xerxes I). She used her powerful position for good. When her people were on the verge of being annihilated, Esther selflessly risked her life to save them.
Priscilla was a woman of Jewish heritage and one of the earliest known Christian converts who lived in Rome. Her name is a Roman diminutive for Prisca which was her formal name. She is often thought to have been the first example of a female preacher or teacher in early church history.
Anna (Hebrew: חַנָּה, Ancient Greek: Ἄννα) or Anna the Prophetess is a woman mentioned in the Gospel of Luke. According to that Gospel, she was an elderly woman of the Tribe of Asher who prophesied about Jesus at the Temple of Jerusalem. She appears in Luke 2:36–38 during the presentation of Jesus at the Temple.
Some interpret the text to say that she was a widow for 84 years, which would make her around 105 years old when she met the family of Jesus.
New Testament narrative
Acts 16 describes Lydia as follows: A certain woman named Lydia, a seller of purple, of the city of Thyatira, one who worshiped God, heard us; whose heart the Lord opened to listen to the things which were spoken by Paul.
"woman who speaks or prognosticates by divine inspiration, a sibyl," late 14c., from or modeled on Old French prophetesse, Late Latin prophetissa. See prophet + -ess. also from late 14c.
Another exegetical tradition lists Sarah among the seven women prophets, the others being Miriam, Deborah, Hannah, Abigail, Huldah and Esther. Her prophetic ability is also learned from her name Iscah, for she saw [sokah] the spirit of divine inspiration (BT.
They needed someone to inspire them, and the Lord chose Deborah. If she had not been obedient to act on what the Lord told her to do, nothing would have changed. She used the place of trust and authority she had been given as a judge to inspire Barak to raise up an army. Deborah was a worshiping warrior.
proph·et·ess ˈprä-fə-təs. Synonyms of prophetess. : a woman who is a prophet.
Reading through Scripture, a few passages stand out that directly speak to the role of women in the church: 1 Corinthians 11:3-12, 14:34-35, 1 Timothy 2:11-15 and Titus 1, 2. These passages are the foundation for the conclusion that women cannot be lead pastors in churches.
Hannah is also considered to be a prophetess: in her song of thanksgiving (1 Samuel 2:1–10) she is inspired “to discern in her own individual experience the universal laws of the divine economy, and to recognise its significance for the whole course of the Kingdom of God".
This week we meet Anna, a prophetess and widow who waited her whole life for the Redeemer of Israel and finally saw baby Jesus when she was already very old.
Phoebe was a woman entrusted by Paul to bring his letter to Rome and preach his words to the local congregation. By her reading the letter aloud, she was teaching and exhorting as a trusted and capable woman, bringing her own oral skill and preaching ability to his words.
Hannah, also spelled Anna, (11th century bce), in the Hebrew Bible (Old Testament), the mother of the prophet Samuel. Childless as one of the two wives of Elkanah, she prayed for a son, promising to dedicate him to God.
Kramarik is a self-taught painter and says that Jesus spoke to her when she was four years old, encouraging her to draw and paint her visions. She began to draw at the age of four, was painting at six, and began to write poetry at seven. At the age of 8 years old, Akiane painted Jesus.
The world knew she wasn't able to have children, so she didn't have any opportunities to remarry once her husband had died. The fourth thing to note here is that she was a widow for 84 years. For Anna, she probably married very young as was the custom during this time, 15 or 16 years old.
Birth of Jesus
From the age at which Jewish maidens became marriageable, it is possible that Mary gave birth to her son when she was about thirteen or fourteen years of age. No historical document tells us how old she actually was at the time of the Nativity.
1853: Antoinette Brown Blackwell was the first woman ordained as a minister in the United States. She was ordained by a church belonging to the Congregationalist Church.
The Wise Woman of Abel Beth-Maacah is the second of two “wise women” portrayed in 2 Samuel lived in a fortified city in northern Israel. When David's general Joab batters the city wall where Sheba has staked a rebellion, the wise woman calls out for negotiation.
The first are the examples of Miriam, Deborah and Huldah in the Old Testament. These three women were used by God in positions of leadership. However, this is not entirely relevant to modern churches.