Bible Person

Cozbi

Meaning: a liar; sliding away · Female · 2 cross references

Cozbi is the Midianite woman slain alongside Zimri in the Baal-peor crisis. She belongs to one of the starkest scenes of covenant violation and judgment in the wilderness narrative. First appears in Num 25:15.1

AI summary: Cozbi matters because the cross references place her at the center of the episode where sexual and religious unfaithfulness converge against Israel's covenant life. Her death with Zimri in Phinehas's decisive act marks the severity of the crisis and the urgency of halting communal corruption. Taken together, the material presents Cozbi as a tragic figure whose story is bound up with one of the Bible's sharpest warnings about covenant compromise.1

Central Figure

Cozbi

Meaning: a liar; sliding away