Zipporah
Zipporah is mentioned in the Book of Exodus as the wife of Moses, and the daughter of Jethro, the priest and prince of Midian.
Key facts
- Person.name
- Zipporah
- Person.image
- Zipporah (cropped).jpg
- Person.alt
- Painting of Zipporah
- Person.caption
- Zipporah by John Ruskin after Botticelli, 1874
- Person.native_name
- צִפּוֹרָה
- Person.birth_date
- Region of Midian
- Person.death_date
- Unknown
- Person.spouse
- Moses
- Person.children
- Gershom (son)Eliezer (son)
- Person.parents
- Jethro
- Person.relatives
- Six sistersAaron (brother-in-law)Miriam (sister-in-law)
- Person.native_name_lang
- he
Article
12 sectionsContents
- Biblical narrative
- Background
- Moses marries Zipporah
- Incident at the inn
- The Exodus
- Numbers 12
- In the Druze religion
- In literature and the arts
- See also
- Notes
- References
- Further reading
Zipporah is mentioned in the Book of Exodus as the wife of Moses, and the daughter of Jethro, the priest and prince of Midian.
She is the mother of Moses' two sons: Eliezer and Gershom.