(fl? 13th cent, BCE)
Israelite woman, sister of Moses. According to Exodus 2:2-8, she advised Pharaoh's daughter, who had discovered the hiding place of the baby Moses, to call a Hebrew nurse for Moses and succeeded in having his mother engaged to care for him. Later, when she and Aaron challenged Moses' exclusive right to speak in the name of the Lord (Numbers 12), she was stricken with leprosy, but she was healed by Moses, who interceded with God on her behalf.
Dictionary of Jewish Biography. Dan Cohn-Sherbok.