One other person, place or group in the registry answers to the name Miriam. Every Miriam in the Bible
- verses
- 12
- first named
- Exodus 15:20
- last named
- Micah 6:4
- period
- Egypt and Wilderness
- tribe
- Levi
Description
Who was Miriam?
Miriam was the sister of Moses and Aaron, and a prominent figure in the Exodus narrative. She first appears in Exo.15.20-21, where she is described as a prophetess who led the women of Israel in worship and dance after the crossing of the Red Sea. This event highlights her leadership role among the women and her musical abilities.
However, Miriam's life was not without controversy. In Num.12.1-15, she and Aaron criticized Moses for marrying a Cushite woman and challenged his authority as God's chosen leader. As a result, God punished Miriam with leprosy, but she was healed after Moses interceded on her behalf. This incident serves as a warning against questioning God's appointed leaders.
Miriam's death is recorded in Num.20.1, which takes place near the end of the Israelites' forty years of wandering in the wilderness. Her significance in Israel's history is further emphasized in Mic.6.4, where she is mentioned alongside Moses and Aaron as one of the leaders God sent to guide the people out of Egypt.
Relations
Direct connections
Every entity the graph places in a stated relation with this one, grouped by the kind of link. Each relation is authored once and its inverse derived, so both ends always agree. Rows marked “registry” come from the identity spine rather than from a verse, and a row marked “which bearer is the source’s decision” is one where the name could have meant more than one person. The last group is not a relation at all — it counts the events two entities stand in together.
Child of
- Amramregistry1 Chronicles 6:3
- JochebedregistryNumbers 26:59
Sibling of
- AaronregistryNumbers 26:59
- MosesregistryNumbers 26:59
Stands in the same events as
Places
Where this happens
The places the claims about this person reach, drawn where the gazetteer locates them. A point is where a row puts them and never where tradition does; no line joins two points, because the rows state where and not in what order.
The pattern
Where Miriam is named
Every book of the corpus in the order it is read, each as wide as the chapters it holds. A bar is the verses of that book which write the name, and the flat stretches are as much of the answer as the bars.
12 verses across 5 of 66 books; 61 write the name nowhere. Named in Exodus (2), Numbers (7), Deuteronomy (1), 1 Chronicles (1) and Micah (1).
Read it
Where to read it
Every verse of the text carried here that names this entity — 12, across 5 books. The name is written 14 times in them.
Onward
Where this page goes
Not the direct relations above — these are one hop further out, ranked so that a rare shared connection outweighs a common one. Descriptions by STEPBible TIPNR.
Where they appear
Chapter by chapter
Atlas's reading of each chapter this person appears in, in canonical order. One line per chapter, and each leads to the whole of it.
- Exodus 15Miriam took a tambourine, led the women in dancing, and sang back the song of the sea.
- Numbers 12Miriam criticized Moses, was made leprous, and remained outside the camp for seven days before returning.
- Numbers 20Miriam died and was buried at Kadesh in the Wilderness of Zin.
- Micah 6Miriam was sent before Israel alongside Moses and Aaron.
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