Bible Person

Milcah

Meaning: queen · Female · 6 cross references

Milcah is the wife of Nahor, daughter of Haran, and mother in the wider family line from which Rebekah comes. She occupies an important place in the ancestral web surrounding Abraham's kin. First appears in Gen 11:29.1

AI summary: Milcah matters because the cross references present her as a matriarch within the branch of Abraham's extended family that later provides Isaac's wife. Her motherhood situates Bethuel and, through him, Rebekah within a named and remembered household. That gives her quiet but real importance in the unfolding patriarchal story. Taken together, the material presents Milcah as a significant ancestral mother in the family network surrounding the covenant line.1