Bible Person

Wife of Ezekiel

Female · 1 cross reference

The wife of Ezekiel is the unnamed woman whose death is recorded in Ezekiel 24:18. She belongs to the painful prophetic sign-world in which the prophet's own household becomes part of his message. First appears in Ezek 24:18.1

AI summary: Ezekiel's wife matters because her death is not treated as a private sorrow only, but as a prophetic sign connected to the coming loss of Jerusalem and the temple. The entry shows how deeply the prophetic vocation could involve personal cost and embodied symbolism. Taken together, the material presents Ezekiel's wife as an unnamed but significant figure in one of the book's most painful enacted messages.1

Central Figure

Wife of Ezekiel