Bible Person

Daughter of Shuah

Female · 2 cross references

This entry refers to the unnamed daughter of Shuah who becomes Judah's wife and the mother of Er, Onan, and Shelah. She belongs to the family setting in which the complicated Judah and Tamar narrative unfolds. First appears in Gen 38:2.1

AI summary: Shuah's daughter matters because the cross references place her inside the domestic beginning of a household line that becomes morally tangled yet historically consequential for Judah. Though she is not given a voice or extended role, her place marks the actual family context from which that line develops. Taken together, the material presents this unnamed wife as a maternal figure whose household role contributes to one of Genesis' most significant Judah narratives.1