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Zipporah in the Bible.

Daughter of Jethro. The King James Version names Zipporah in 3 verses, from Exodus 2:21 to Exodus 18:2.

Zipporah’s family.

Father
Brothers and sisters
Herself
Zipporah
Husbands, and their children

Her family as Theographic Bible Metadata lists it; each name opens its own page.

Zipporah’s own words.

Zipporah speaks in 2 verses of the King James Version, all in Exodus.

Her first words in the Bible
Then Zipporah took a sharp stone, and cut off the foreskin of her son, and cast it at his feet, and said, Surely a bloody husband art thou to me.
Exodus 4:25 ›

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Who Zipporah was.

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 Easton’s Bible Dictionary (1897).

All 3 verses that name Zipporah.

Exodus 3

  • Exodus 2:21And Moses was content to dwell with the man: and he gave Moses Zipporah his daughter.
  • Exodus 4:25Then Zipporah took a sharp stone, and cut off the foreskin of her son, and cast it at his feet, and said, Surely a bloody husband art thou to me.
  • Exodus 18:2Then Jethro, Moses’ father in law, took Zipporah, Moses’ wife, after he had sent her back,

Questions about Zipporah.

Who was Zipporah in the Bible?

Daughter of Jethro. The King James Version names Zipporah in 3 verses, from Exodus 2:21 to Exodus 18:2.

Who was Zipporah’s father?

Jethro.

Who was Zipporah’s husband?

Moses.

Who were Zipporah’s children?

BibleLectio’s family tree lists Gershom and Eliezer.

Where does Zipporah speak in the Bible?

In 2 verses of the King James Version, all in Exodus. Her first words are in Exodus 4:25.

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