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People of the Bible

Zipporah

Family

Father
Jethro
Partner
Moses
Brothers and sisters
Eliasaph, Hobab
Children
Eliezer, Gershom

Easton’s Bible Dictionary

A female bird. Reuel’s daughter, who became the wife of Moses (Ex. 2:21). In consequence of the event recorded in Ex. 4:24-26, 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 (18:2-6).

From M. G. Easton, Illustrated Bible Dictionary (1893), in the public domain.

Named in 3 verses

Exodus
2:21, 4:25, 18:2

The family, dates and events on this page come from Theographic, a knowledge graph of the Bible by Robert Rouse, used and shared under CC BY-SA 4.0. It is a work in progress, and its dates follow one reconstruction of biblical chronology among several. The dictionary article above is separately in the public domain.