Some people who appear in the Bible but whose names are not given there have names that are given in Jewish religious texts, Christian sacred tradition, or apocryphal texts.
Hebrew Bible Serpent of Genesis Revelation 12 is thought to identify the serpent with Satan, unlike the pseudepigraphical-apocryphal Apocalypse of Moses (Vita Adae et Evae) where the Devil works with the serpent.The Old Testament Pseudepigrapha: Expansions of the "Old ... James H. Charlesworth - 1985 "He seeks to destroy men's souls (Vita 17:1) by disguising himself as an angel of light (Vita 9:1, 3; 12:1; ApMos 17:1) to put into men "his evil poison, which is his covetousness" (epithymia, ..."
Wives of the antediluvian patriarchs The pseudepigraphical Book of Jubilees provides names for a host of otherwise unnamed biblical characters, including wives for most of the antediluvian patriarchs. The last of these is Noah's wife, to whom it gives the name of Emzara. Other Jewish traditional sources contain many different names for Noah's wife.
The Book of Jubilees says that Awan was Adam and Eve's first daughter. Their second daughter Azura married Seth. For many of the early wives in the series, Jubilees notes that the patriarchs married their sisters. Patriarch WifeCain Seth Azûrâ Enos Nôâm Kenan Mûalêlêth Mahalalel DinahJared BarakaEnoch EdnaMethuselah Edna Lamech (Seth's line) Betenos Noah The Cave of Treasures and the earlier Kitab al-Magall (part of Clementine literature) name entirely different women as the wives of the patriarchs, with considerable variations among the extant copies.
The Muslim historian Ibn Ishaq (c. 750), as cited in al-Tabari (c. 915), provides names for these wives which are generally similar to those in Jubilees, but he makes them Cainites rather than Sethites, despite clearly stating elsewhere that none of Noah's ancestors were descended from Cain.
Cain and Abel's sisters
Name: Aclima (or Calmana or Luluwa) source: Golden Legend,Medieval Sourcebook: The Golden Legend: Volume 1 (full text), Fordham.edu.(Dead link 2/2/2022) which also tells stories about many of the saints
Appears in the Bible at: Genesis 4:17
Name: Delbora source: Golden Legend, which also tells stories about many of the saints
Appears in the Bible at: Genesis 4
See also: Balbira and Kalmana, Azura and Awan for alternate traditions of names.
Noah's wife
Name: Naamah Source: Midrash Genesis Rabbah 23:4
Appears in the Bible at: Genesis 4:22; Gen. 7:7
Daughter of Lamech and Zillah and sister of Tubal-cain (Gen. iv. 22). According to Abba ben Kahana, Naamah was Noah's wife and was called "Naamah" (pleasant) because her conduct was pleasing to God. But the majority of the rabbis reject this statement, declaring that Naamah was an idolatrous woman who sang "pleasant" songs to idols.
See also Wives aboard the Ark for a list of traditional names given to the wives of Noah and his sons Shem, Ham, and Japheth.
Ham's wife
Name: Egyptus Source: Book of Abraham
Appears in the Bible in Genesis 7 and 6
The Mormon Book of Abraham, first published in 1842, mentions Egyptus (Abraham 1:23) as being the name of Ham's wife; his daughter apparently had the same name (v. 25).
Nimrod's wife A large body of legend has attached itself to Nimrod, whose brief mention in Genesis merely makes him "a mighty hunter in the face of the Lord". (The biblical account makes no mention of a wife at all.) These legends usually make Nimrod to be a sinister figure, and they reach their peak in Hislop's The Two Babylons, which make Nimrod and his wife Semiramis to be the original authors of every false and pagan religion.
Mother of Abraham
Name: Amatlai bat Karnevo Source: Babylonian Talmud, Bava Batra 91aBava Batra 91a, The William Davidson digital edition of the Koren Noé Talmud, Sefaria.org
Appears in the Bible at: Book of Genesis
Lot's married daughter
Name: Paltith Source: Book of Jasher 19:24Book of Jasher, Chapter 19. Sacred-texts.com.
Appears in the Bible at: Book of Genesis
Lot's wife
Name: Ado (or Edith, or Erith) Source: Book of Jasher 19:52 (Ado); Pirkei De-Rabbi Eliezer (Edith)
Appears in the Bible at: Book of Genesis
Laban's wife
Name: Adinah Source: Book of Jasher 28:28Book of Jasher, Chapter 28. Sacred-texts.com.
Appears in the Bible at: Book of Genesis
Potiphar's wife
Name: Zuleikha Source: The Sefer Hayyashar, a book of Jewish lore published in Venice in 1625. Also, the Persian mystical poem "Yusuf and Zulaikha" by Jami, 15th century.
Appears in the Bible at: Genesis 39:12
Potiphar's wife attempted to seduce Joseph in Egypt.
Pharaoh's daughter
Name: Merris Source: Eusebius of Caesarea (Preparation for the Gospel 9.15)
Name: Merrhoe Source: Eustathius of Antioch (Commentary on Hexameron MPG 18.785)
Name: Thermutis Source: Flavius Josephus
Name: Bithiah or Bitya Source: Leviticus Rabbah
Name: Sobekneferu or Neferusobek Source: Unwrapping the Pharaohs
Appears in the Bible at: Exodus 2
Pharaoh's daughter, who drew Moses out of the water, is known as Bithiah in Jewish tradition (identifying her with the "Pharaoh's daughter Bithiah" in 1 Chronicles 4:18).
Simeon's wife
Name: Bunah Source: Book of Jasher 34:36Book of Jasher, Chapter 34. Sacred-texts.com. Legends of the Jews Volume 1 Chapter 6Chapter VI: Jacob. Sacred-texts.com.
Name: Dinah Source: Midrash Bereshit Rabba 80:11. After Simeon and Levi slaughtered the men of Shechem, Dinah refused to go with them unless someone married her and raised the child of Prince Chamor she was carrying as his own. Simeon did this.
Appears in the Bible at: Genesis 34
Pharaoh's magicians
Names: Jannes and Jambres Source: 2 Timothy 3:8,Passage Lookup: 2 Timothy 3:8. BibleGateway.com. Book of Jasher chapter 79,Book of Jasher, Chapter 79. Sacred-texts.com. Antiquities of the Jews Book 2, Aquarian Gospel of Jesus the Christ Chapter 109,Chapter 106. Sacred-texts.com. Ante-Nicene Fathers, Vol. VIII,Ante-Nicene Fathers, Vol VIII: Apocrypha of the New Testament.: Chapter 5. Sacred-texts.com. Easton's Bible Dictionary,Easton's Bible Dictionary. Sacred-texts.com. The Book of the Bee Chapter 30,Chapter XXX – The History of Moses' Rod. Sacred-texts.com. Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers, Vol. XIII,Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers, Vol. XIII: The Homilies of St. John Chrysostom on Timothy, Titus, and Philemon.: 2 Timothy 3:1–7. Sacred-texts.com. Legends of the Jews Volume 2 Chapter 4,Chapter IV: Moses in Egypt. Sacred-texts.com. Chronicles of Jerahmeel, Papyrus Chester Beatty XVI: Apocryphon of Jannes and Jambres
Appears in the Bible at: Exodus 7
The names of Jannes and Jambres, or Jannes and Mambres, were well known through the ancient world as magicians. In this instance, nameless characters from the Hebrew Bible are given names in the New Testament. Their names also appear in numerous Jewish texts.
The Cushitic wife of Moses
Name: Tharbis Source: Flavius Josephus, Jewish Antiquities, Book II, Chapter 10
Name: Adoniah Source: Book of Jasher, 23.5–25.5
Appears in the Bible at: Numbers 12
Job's wives
Names: Sitis, Dinah Source: The apocryphal Testament of JobJob, Testament Of:. JewishEncyclopedia.com.
Appears in the Bible at: Book of Job
Apocryphal Jewish folklore says that Sitis, or Sitidos, was Job's first wife, who died during his trials. After his temptation was over, the same sources say that Job remarried Dinah, Jacob's daughter who appears in Genesis.
Name: Raḥma Source: Islamic traditionEric Geoffroy et Néfissa Geoffroy : Le grand livre des prénoms arabes – Plus de 5500 prénoms classés par thèmes avec leurs correspondances en français, Albin Michel, 2009. The source does not tell which wife of Job has this name.
Jephthah's daughter
Name: Seila Source: Liber Antiquitatum Biblicarum Name: Adah Source: Order of the Eastern StarAdah , South Carolina Order of the Eastern Star website.
Appears in the Bible at: Judges 11
The Liber Antiquitatum Biblicarum falsely ascribes itself to the Jewish author Philo. It in fact did not surface until the sixteenth century; see Works of Philo.
Samson's mother
Name: Tzelelponit Source: Babylonian Talmud, Bava Batra 91a
Appears in the Bible at: Book of Judges 13
David's mother
Name: Nitzevet bat Adael Source: Babylonian Talmud, Bava Batra 91a
Appears in the Bible at: Book of Samuel
The Witch of Endor
Name: Sedecla Source: Liber Antiquitatum Biblicarum
Appears in the Bible at: 1 Samuel 28
The Man of God Name: Iddo or Jadon Source:Jewish Encyclopedia Named Jadon by Josephus in The Antiquities of the Jews VIII.8.5
Appears in the Bible at: 2 Chronicles 12:15 and 1 Kings 13
The wise woman of Abel
Name: Serah Source: Aggadic MidrashRashi on 2 Samuel 20:19.
Appears in the Bible at: 2 Samuel 20
The Queen of Sheba
Name: Makeda Source: Traditional Ethiopian lore surrounding Emperor Menelik I; see the Kebra Nagast
Name: Nicaule Source: Josephus
Name: Bilqis Source: Islamic traditions
Appears in the Bible at: 1 Kings 10; 2 Chronicles 9
According to Ethiopian traditions, the Queen of Sheba returned to Ethiopia pregnant with King Solomon's child. She bore Solomon a son that went on to found a dynasty that ruled Ethiopia until the fall of Emperor Haile Selassie in 1974.
Jeroboam's wife
Name: Ano Source: Septuagint
Appears in the Bible at: 1 Kings 14
Haman's mother
Name: Amatlai bat Orevti Source: Babylonian Talmud, Bava Batra 91a
Appears in the Bible at: Book of Esther
Old Testament deuterocanonicals
The Deuterocanonical books, sometimes called the "Apocrypha", are considered canonical by Catholics, Eastern Orthodox, and Oriental Orthodox (though these churches' lists of books differ slightly from each other).
Seven Maccabees and their mother Name: Habroun, Hebsoun, Bakhous, Adai, Tarsai, Maqbai and Yawnothon. Source: Syriac tradition
Name: Abim, Antonius, Gurias, Eleazar, Eusebonus, Alimus and Marcellus. Source: Eastern Orthodox Tradition The woman with seven sons is a Jewish martyr who is unnamed in 2 Maccabees 7, but is named Hannah, Miriam, Shamuna and Solomonia in other sources. According to Eastern Orthodox tradition, her sons, the "Holy Maccabean Martyrs" (not to be confused with the martyrs in the Ethiopian book of Meqabyan), are named Abim, Antonius, Gurias, Eleazar, Eusebonus, Alimus and Marcellus. According to the Syriac Maronite Fenqitho (book of festal offices), the name of the mother is Shmooni while her sons are Habroun, Hebsoun, Bakhous, Adai, Tarsai, Maqbai and Yawnothon.Maronite Church, Fenqitho, v. 1, Lilyo of the Feast of Shmooni and Her Seven Sons
The seven Archangels Name: Michael, Gabriel, Raphael, Uriel, Simiel, Oriphiel, and Raguel. Source: Pope Gregory I
Name: Michael, Gabriel, Raphael, Uriel, Selaphiel, Jegudiel and Barachiel Source: Byzantine Catholic and Eastern Orthodox Tradition
Name: Michael, Gabriel, Raphael, Uriel, Camael, Jophiel, and Zadkiel. Source: Pseudo-DionysiusA Dictionary of Angels, Including the Fallen Angels by Gustav Davidson, 1980, Free Press Publishing
Name: Michael, Gabriel, Raphael, Suriel, Zadkiel, Sarathiel, and Ananiel. Source: Coptic Orthodox tradition
Name: Michael, Gabriel, Raphael, Uriel, Sarakiel, Remiel and Raguel Source: Book of the Watchers
Tobit 12:15 reads "I am Raphael, one of the seven holy angels who present the prayers of the saints and enter into the presence of the glory of the Holy One." The Archangel Michael is named in the Book of Daniel, and Gabriel is named in the Gospel of Luke.Daniel 12:1; Luke 1:19. The other four archangels are unnamed.