05/09/2026
Happy Mother's Day!
103 Mothers in the Bible
Genesis–Deuteronomy
1. Eve — Mother of Cain, Abel, Seth, and others; “the mother of all living” (Gen 3.20; 4.1–2, 25).
2. Adah, wife of Lamech — Mother of Jabal and Jubal, ancestors of nomadic herding and music (Gen 4.19–21).
3. Zillah, wife of Lamech — Mother of Tubal-cain, the metalworker, and Naamah (Gen 4.22).
4. Sarah — Mother of Isaac in old age, fulfilling God’s promise (Gen 21.1–3).
5. Hagar — Egyptian servant of Sarah and mother of Ishmael; met God in the wilderness (Gen 16.15).
6. Milcah — Wife of Nahor, mother of Bethuel, and grandmother of Rebekah (Gen 22.20–23).
7. Reumah — Concubine of Nahor, mother of four sons (Gen 22.24).
8. Keturah — Abraham’s later wife, mother of six sons, including Midian (Gen 25.1–4).
9. Rebekah — Mother of Esau and Jacob; her pregnancy foretold two warring nations (Gen 25.21–26).
10. Leah — Mother of Reuben, Simeon, Levi, Judah, Issachar, Zebulun, and Dinah; ancestress of Judah and Levi (Gen 29–30).
11. Rachel — Beloved wife of Jacob; mother of Joseph and Benjamin, dying at Benjamin’s birth (Gen 30.22–24; 35.16–20).
12. Bilhah — Rachel’s servant; mother of Dan and Naphtali by Jacob (Gen 30.3–8).
13. Zilpah — Leah’s servant; mother of Gad and Asher by Jacob (Gen 30.9–13).
14. Lot’s older daughter — Mother of Moab by her father (Gen 19.30–37).
15. Lot’s younger daughter — Mother of Ben-ammi, ancestor of the Ammonites (Gen 19.38).
16. Judah’s wife, daughter of Shua — Mother of Er, Onan, and Shelah (Gen 38.2–5).
17. Tamar — Mother of Perez and Zerah by Judah; ancestress of Christ (Gen 38.27–30; Mt 1.3).
18. Asenath — Wife of Joseph; mother of Manasseh and Ephraim (Gen 41.45, 50–52).
19. Adah, wife of Esau — Mother of Eliphaz (Gen 36.2–4).
20. Basemath, wife of Esau — Mother of Reuel (Gen 36.3–4).
21. Oholibamah, wife of Esau — Mother of Jeush, Jalam, and Korah (Gen 36.5).
22. Timna — Concubine of Eliphaz; mother of Amalek (Gen 36.12).
23. Jochebed — Mother of Aaron, Moses, and Miriam; hid Moses in the Nile basket (Ex 6.20; Num 26.59).
24. Pharaoh’s daughter — Drew Moses from the Nile and raised him as her own (Ex 2.5–10).
25. Zipporah — Wife of Moses; mother of Gershom and Eliezer (Ex 2.21–22; 18.2–4).
26. Shelomith, daughter of Dibri — Mother of the blasphemer (Lev 24.10–11).
Joshua–Ruth
27. Rahab — Former Jericho pr******te and mother of Boaz; in the messianic line (Mt 1.5).
28. Manoah’s wife — Unnamed mother of Samson; received the angel’s announcement (Judg 13).
29. Micah’s mother — Mother of Micah of Ephraim and patron of his idolatrous shrine (Judg 17.1–5).
30. Sisera’s mother — Pictured in Deborah’s song waiting in vain for her defeated son (Judg 5.28–30).
31. Jephthah’s mother — Unnamed pr******te whose status led to Jephthah’s rejection (Judg 11.1–2).
32. Naomi — Mother of Mahlon and Chilion; received Obed as her own son (Ruth 1.2–4; 4.17).
33. Ruth — Moabite widow; mother of Obed and great-grandmother of David (Ruth 4.13–17).
Samuel–Kings–Chronicles
34. Hannah — Mother of Samuel, given to the Lord’s service after answered prayer (1 Sam 1.20; 2.21).
35. Peninnah — Hannah’s rival; mother of Elkanah’s other children (1 Sam 1.2, 4).
36. Wife of Phinehas — Dying in childbirth, named her son Ichabod—“the glory has departed” (1 Sam 4.19–22).
37. Zeruiah — David’s sister; mother of Joab, Abishai, and Asahel (2 Sam 2.18; 1 Chr 2.16).
38. Abigail, sister of David — Mother of Amasa (2 Sam 17.25).
39. Ahinoam of Jezreel — Mother of Amnon, David’s firstborn (2 Sam 3.2).
40. Abigail, widow of Nabal — Mother of Chileab/Daniel by David (2 Sam 3.3).
41. Maacah, daughter of Talmai — Mother of Absalom and Tamar (2 Sam 3.3; 13.1).
42. Haggith — Mother of Adonijah, who tried to seize the throne (2 Sam 3.4; 1 Kgs 1.5).
43. Abital — Mother of Shephatiah (2 Sam 3.4).
44. Eglah — Mother of Ithream (2 Sam 3.5).
45. Bathsheba — Mother of Solomon; secured his succession (2 Sam 12.24; 1 Chr 3.5).
46. Rizpah — Saul’s concubine; kept vigil over her slain sons Armoni and Mephibosheth (2 Sam 21.8–11).
47. Merab — Mother of five sons given to Adriel (2 Sam 21.8; some manuscripts read “Michal”).
48. Wise woman of Tekoa — Played a bereaved mother in Joab’s parable to David (2 Sam 14.4–7).
49. The two mothers before Solomon — The true mother revealed by her willingness to surrender her child (1 Kgs 3.16–28).
50. Naamah the Ammonitess — Mother of Rehoboam (1 Kgs 14.21, 31).
51. Maacah/Micaiah — Mother of King Abijah of Judah (1 Kgs 15.2; 2 Chr 13.2).
52. Maacah — Asa’s mother (or grandmother), removed from her queen-mother office for idolatry (1 Kgs 15.10–13).
53. Azubah, daughter of Shilhi — Mother of Jehoshaphat (1 Kgs 22.42).
54. Jezebel — Mother of Joram, Ahaziah, and likely Athaliah; promoter of Baal worship (1 Kgs 22.51–53; 2 Kgs 9.22).
55. Athaliah — Mother of Ahaziah of Judah; tried to kill the royal heirs and seize the throne (2 Kgs 8.26; 11.1).
56. Zibiah of Beersheba — Mother of Joash, preserved from Athaliah’s purge (2 Kgs 12.1).
57. Jehoaddan of Jerusalem — Mother of Amaziah (2 Kgs 14.2).
58. Jecoliah of Jerusalem — Mother of Uzziah/Azariah (2 Kgs 15.2).
59. Jerusha, daughter of Zadok — Mother of Jotham (2 Kgs 15.33).
60. Abi/Abijah, daughter of Zechariah — Mother of Hezekiah (2 Kgs 18.2).
61. Hephzibah — Mother of Manasseh (2 Kgs 21.1).
62. Meshullemeth, daughter of Haruz — Mother of Amon (2 Kgs 21.19).
63. Jedidah, daughter of Adaiah — Mother of Josiah (2 Kgs 22.1).
64. Hamutal, daughter of Jeremiah of Libnah — Mother of Jehoahaz and Zedekiah (2 Kgs 23.31; 24.18).
65. Zebidah, daughter of Pedaiah — Mother of Jehoiakim (2 Kgs 23.36).
66. Nehushta, daughter of Elnathan — Mother of Jehoiachin; taken with him to Babylon (2 Kgs 24.8, 15).
67. Jehosheba — Aunt and foster-mother who hid the infant Joash from Athaliah (2 Kgs 11.2; 2 Chr 22.11).
Genealogical mothers in Chronicles
68. Atarah — Wife of Jerahmeel; mother of Onam (1 Chr 2.26).
69. Abihail — Wife of Abishur; mother of Ahban and Molid (1 Chr 2.29).
70. Azubah, wife of Caleb — Mother in Caleb’s line (1 Chr 2.18–19).
71. Ephrath/Ephrathah — Wife of Caleb and mother of Hur; linked to Bethlehem (1 Chr 2.19, 50).
72. Maacah, Caleb’s concubine — Mother of Sheber, Tirhanah, Shaaph, and Sheva (1 Chr 2.48–49).
73. Ephah, Caleb’s concubine — Mother of Haran, Moza, and Gazez (1 Chr 2.46).
74. Abiah — Wife of Hezron; mother of Ashhur, father of Tekoa (1 Chr 2.24).
75. Helah — Wife of Ashhur in Judah’s genealogy (1 Chr 4.5–7).
76. Naarah — Wife of Ashhur; mother of Ahuzzam, Hepher, Temeni, and Haahashtari (1 Chr 4.5–6).
77. Bithiah, daughter of Pharaoh — Wife of Mered (1 Chr 4.17–18).
78. Mered’s Jewish wife — Mother of Jered, Heber, and Jekuthiel (1 Chr 4.18).
79. Hodesh — Wife of Shaharaim; mother of seven sons in Benjamin’s line (1 Chr 8.8–10).
80. Maacah, wife of Machir — Mother of Peresh and Sheresh in Manasseh’s line (1 Chr 7.15–16).
81. Hammolecheth — Sister of Gilead and mother of Ishhod, Abiezer, and Mahlah; her name suggests “the queen” (1 Chr 7.18).
82. Sheshan’s daughter — Mother of Attai through Sheshan’s Egyptian servant Jarha (1 Chr 2.34–35).
83. Jabez’s mother — Named him Jabez because she bore him in pain (1 Chr 4.9).
Wisdom, Prophets, and Writings
84. Job’s wife — Mother of Job’s lost and later-born children; counseled him in his anguish (Job 1.2, 18–19; 42.13–15).
85. Mother of King Lemuel — Source of the oracle on wisdom and the worthy woman (Prov 31.1).
86. Widow of Zarephath — Mother of a son Elijah raised from death (1 Kgs 17.8–24).
87. Shunammite woman — Mother of a son promised and then raised by Elisha (2 Kgs 4.8–37).
88. Widow of the multiplied oil — Mother of two sons spared from debt-slavery by Elisha’s miracle (2 Kgs 4.1–7).
89. The cannibal mothers of Samaria — Unnamed mothers in the famine under siege, embodying the covenant curses (2 Kgs 6.26–29).
90. Isaiah’s wife, the prophetess — Mother of Maher-shalal-hash-baz, whose name was a sign against Assyria (Isa 8.3).
91. Gomer — Wife of Hosea; mother of Jezreel, Lo-ruhamah, and Lo-ammi—a living parable of Israel’s unfaithfulness (Hos 1.3–9).
New Testament
92. Elizabeth — Mother of John the Baptist; conceived in old age and greeted Mary as the mother of her Lord (Lk 1.5–25, 57–66).
93. Mary, mother of Jesus — Received Gabriel’s announcement and stood near the cross (Mt 1.18–25; Lk 1–2; Mk 6.3).
94. Herodias — Mother of the dancing daughter who demanded John the Baptist’s head (Mt 14.6–11; Mk 6.22–28).
95. Widow of Nain — Mother of an only son whom Jesus raised from the dead (Lk 7.11–17).
96. Syrophoenician/Canaanite woman — Mother of a demon-oppressed daughter healed for her persistent faith (Mt 15.21–28; Mk 7.24–30).
97. Mother of James and John (wife of Zebedee) — Sought honor for her sons; later witnessed the crucifixion (Mt 20.20–23; 27.56).
98. Mary, mother of James and Joseph — Faithful witness at the cross and tomb (Mt 27.56, 61; Mk 15.40, 47).
99. Mary, mother of John Mark — Hosted the Jerusalem prayer meeting after Peter’s release (Acts 12.12).
100. Eunice — Jewish believer; mother of Timothy (Acts 16.1; 2 Tim 1.5).
101. Lois — Grandmother of Timothy and part of his faith heritage (2 Tim 1.5).
102. Rufus’s mother — Showed Paul motherly care; he calls her “his mother and mine” (Rom 16.13).
103. The elect lady — Addressed in 2 John, with “children” walking in truth—either an individual or a church (2 Jn 1, 4).
