Reference: Deborah

1. Rebekah's nurse, who accompanied her mistress to her new home on her marrying Isaac (Ge 24:59). She was evidently held in great reverence, as the name of the site of her grave in Bethel shows, Allon-bacuth, the 'terehinth of weeping' (Ge 35:8).

2. The fourth of the leaders, or 'Judges,' of Israel; called also a 'prophetess,' i.e. an inspired woman