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26-405: Bithia may refer to: Bithia or Bithiah, a traditional name attributed to the biblical Pharaoh's daughter Bithia , a city in ancient Sardinia and Corsica Topics referred to by the same term [REDACTED] This disambiguation page lists articles associated with the title Bithia . If an internal link led you here, you may wish to change

52-636: A "daughter of Pharaoh" in 1 Chronicles 4 :17 named Bitya. An example of this is found in Leviticus Rabbah 1:3, which refers to her as Bit-Yah ( Hebrew : בתיה , lit.   'daughter of Yahweh '). It states she was given the name for her adoption of Moses, that because she had made Moses her son, Yahweh would make her his daughter. In 1 Chronicles 4 :18, she is called ha-yəhudiyya (Hebrew: הַיְהֻדִיָּ֗ה , lit.   'the Jewess';), which some English translations of

78-482: A lord other than me?” She said: “Yes, my Lord and your Lord is Allah.” He then ordered a cow made of brass to be heated up, and then commanded that she and her children be thrown into it. She said to him, ‘I have one request to you,’ he said, ‘What is your need?’ She said: ‘I would like you to gather my bones and the bones of my children in one cloth and bury us.’ He replied, ‘That is your right upon us.’ He ordered her children to be thrown in front of her one by one until it

104-589: A name to Pharaoh's daughter or to her father; she is referred to in Hebrew as Baṯ-Parʿo (Hebrew: בת־פרעה ), "daughter of Pharaoh." The Book of Jubilees 47:5 and Josephus both call her Thermouthis ( Greek : Θερμουθις ), also transliterated as Tharmuth and Thermutis , the Greek name of Renenutet , a fertility deity depicted as an Egyptian cobra . Some within Jewish tradition have tried to identify her with

130-632: A namesake deity. According to Jewish tradition, in her later years Pharaoh's daughter devotes herself to Moses, and to Yahweh; she celebrates the first Passover Seder with Moses in the slaves' quarters and for that, her firstborn is the only Egyptian to survive the final of the Ten Plagues of Egypt , and leaves Egypt with him for the Promised Land . Citing a passage in the Books of Chronicles (1 Chronicles 4:17-18), some have maintained that she

156-460: A nurse from the Hebrew women to nurse the child for you?" And Pharaoh's daughter said to her, "Go." So the girl went and called the child's mother . And Pharaoh's daughter said to her, "Take this child away, and nurse him for me, and I will give you your wages." So the woman took the child and nursed him. And the child grew, and she brought him to Pharaoh's daughter, and he became her son; and she named him Moses, for she said, "Because I drew him out of

182-471: A significantly different take on the events that day, portraying Pharaoh's daughter as having suffered from a skin disease (possibly leprosy ), the pain of which only the cold waters of the Nile could relieve, and that these lesions healed when she found Moses. It also describes an encounter with the archangel Gabriel , who kills two of her handmaidens for trying to dissuade her from rescuing Moses. After Moses

208-592: Is a family of flowering plants , commonly known as the rush family . It consists of 8 genera and about 464 known species of slow-growing, rhizomatous , herbaceous monocotyledonous plants that may superficially resemble grasses and sedges . They often grow on infertile soils in a wide range of moisture conditions. The best-known and largest genus is Juncus . Most of the Juncus species grow exclusively in wetland habitats. A few rushes, such as Juncus bufonius are annuals , but most are perennials . Despite

234-544: Is no textual indication that this is the case and the chronology may not be consistent with that conclusion. Now the daughter of Pharaoh came down to bathe at the river, and her maidens walked beside the river; she saw the basket among the reeds and sent her maid to fetch it. When she opened it she saw the child; and lo, the babe was crying. She took pity on him and said, "This is one of the Hebrews' children." Then his sister said to Pharaoh's daughter, "Shall I go and call you

260-656: Is the one who is said to have married a member of the Tribe of Judah , Mered , and to have had children with him. Additionally, she is referred to there as a Jewess, indicating that she had accepted Yahweh as her own god. Furthermore, the Jewish rabbis claim that, in the Book of Proverbs (Proverbs 31:15), she is praised in Woman of Valor . Further, the Midrash teaches that because of her devotion to Yahweh and her adoption of Moses, she

286-483: Is the scent of the hairdresser, the daughter of Pharaoh, and her children.’ He continued, ‘What is her story?’ He said: ‘While she was combing Pharaoh’s daughter’s hair one day, the comb fell from her hand, and she said: “In the name of Allah.” Pharaoh’s daughter said: “My father?” She replied: “No, but my Lord and your father’s Lord is Allah.” She said: “Shall I inform him of this?” She replied: “Yes.” So, she informed him, and he called her and said: “O so-and-so, do you have

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312-485: Is used to weave the soft surface cover of tatami mats. In medieval Europe , loose fresh rushes would be strewn on earthen floors in dwellings for cleanliness and insulation. Particularly favored for such a purpose was Acorus calamus (sweet flag), but despite its alternate vernacular name "sweet rush", it is a plant from a different monocot order , Acorales . Up until the 1960s in Ireland , rushes were spread on

338-588: Is weaned, Pharaoh's daughter gives him his name, Moshé ( Hebrew : מֹשֶה ) purportedly taken from the word māšāh ( Hebrew : מָשָׁה , lit.   'to draw from water'), because she drew him from the water, but some modern scholars disagree with the Biblical etymology of the name, believing it to have been based on the Egyptian root m-s, meaning "son" or "born of," a popular element in Egyptian names (e. g. Ramesses . Thutmose ) used in conjunction with

364-575: The Midrash Vayosha provide some additional backstory to the event, saying that she had visited the Nile that morning not to bathe for the purpose of hygiene but for ritual purification , treating the river as if it were a mikveh , as she had grown tired of people's idolatrous ways, and that she first sought to nurse Moses herself but he would not take her milk and so, she called for a Hebrew wet nurse , who so happened to be Moses' biological mother, Jochebed . Rabbinic literature tells

390-491: The finding of Moses . In medieval Irish legend, Pharaoh's daughter is named Scota and is the ancestor of the Gaels . In George Gershwin 's 1935 opera Porgy and Bess , the song It Ain't Necessarily So mentions Pharaoh's daughter finding baby Moses. The Moses Chronicles (2015-), a novel-trilogy by H. B. Moore , includes Pharaoh's daughter. Parts of the story are written from her perspective. In her poem 'Epitaph',

416-577: The American poet Eleanor Wilner depicts Pharaoh's daughter as having raised Moses, whom she honed 'like a sword', to be a rebel within the palace household. See Chapters into Verse , edited by Robert Atwan and Laurance Wieder (2000), New York: Oxford University Press, pp. 66-67. Drama-films depicting her include The Ten Commandments (1956), the animated musical The Prince of Egypt (1998) and Exodus: Gods and Kings (2014). TV-dramas include Moses (1995). Juncaceae Juncaceae

442-554: The Bible treat as a given name , Jehudijah ( Hebrew : יהודיה , romanized :  yehudiyyah , lit.   'Jewess'), notably the King James Version , but the word is an appelative , there to indicate that Pharaoh's daughter was no longer a pagan . However, some have criticized the idea that the "daughter of Pharaoh" in 1 Chronicles named Bithiah is the same as the one who adopted Moses since there

468-401: The apparent similarity, Juncaceae are not counted among the plants with the vernacular name bulrush . The leaves are evergreen and well-developed in a basal aggregation on an erect stem. They are alternate and tristichous (i.e., with three rows of leaves up the stem, each row of leaves arising one-third of the way around the stem from the previous leaf). Only in the genus Distichia are

494-597: The boy's existence, seeks to kill him but she intervenes and Pharaoh changes his mind, allowing the boy to live. Mirroring the Judeo-Christian story, Jochebed is called to Pharaoh's palace to act as a wet nurse for him. Another wife of another pharaoh of exodus named Asiya professes Moses' belief in God (Allah). Pharaoh's daughter is often included in Exodus-related art and fiction. Several artworks portray

520-455: The center of the flowers. As is characteristic of monocots, all of the flower parts appear in multiples of three. The fruit is usually a nonfleshy, three-sectioned dehiscent capsule containing many seeds . The dried pith of plants of this family is used to make a lighting implement known as a rushlight . The common rush ( Juncus effusus ) is called igusa in Japanese and

546-465: The earthen floor of homes during wet weather to help keep the floor dry during periods of snow or rain, or during hot weather to keep rooms cool. Rushes used in Ireland included Juncus effusus , Juncus glaucus , and Juncus conglomeratus . The stems and leaves of Juncus kraussii were used by Indigenous Australians for fibre , for string, fishing lines , woven rugs and woven baskets . It

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572-730: The leaves distichous. The rushes of the genus Juncus have flat, hairless leaves or cylindrical leaves. The leaves of the wood-rushes of the genus Luzula are always flat and bear long white hairs. The plants are bisexual or, rarely, dioecious . The small flowers are arranged in inflorescences of loose cymes , but also in rather dense heads or corymbs at the top of the stem or at its side. This family typically has reduced perianth segments called tepals . These are usually arranged in two whorls , each containing three thin, papery tepals. They are not bright or flashy in appearance, and their color can vary from greenish to whitish, brown, purple, black, or hyaline. The three stigmas are in

598-408: The link to point directly to the intended article. Retrieved from " https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Bithia&oldid=991377448 " Category : Disambiguation pages Hidden categories: Short description is different from Wikidata All article disambiguation pages All disambiguation pages Pharaoh%27s daughter (Exodus) The Exodus 2:5 ) does not give

624-610: The water." In the Jewish narrative, Pharaoh's daughter first appears in the Book of Exodus, in Exodus 2:5–10. The passage describes her discovery of the Hebrew child, Moses, in the rushes of the Nile River and her willful defiance of her father's orders that all male Hebrew children be drowned in the "Yeor" ( Hebrew : יְאוֹר ) (Nile), instead taking the child, whom she knows to be a Hebrew, and raising him as her own son. The Talmud and

650-592: Was one of those who entered heaven alive . Pharaoh's daughter name is not mentioned in the Quran. However, it was given in other sources such as the Hadith. In the Hadith traced by Ibn ‘Abbas, he said: The Messenger of Allah ( Mohammed), peace and blessings be upon him, said: “On the night I was taken on the Isra (Night Journey), a pleasant scent came to me. I said: ‘O Gabriel, what is this pleasant scent?’ He replied: ‘This

676-524: Was the turn of a suckling child she had. It seemed she hesitated because of him, he said: ‘O mother, plunge in, for the punishment of this world is lesser than the punishment of the Hereafter.’ So, she plunged in.” This narration is found in Imam Ahmad’s “Musnad” (1/309), Al-Tabarani (12280). In the Quran, Pharaoh's wife does not draw Moses from river Nile, her servants do, and Pharaoh, having learned of

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