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Miriam the Prophetess (מִרְיָם, miryam). Hebrew prophetess. The sister of Moses and Aaron, and the daughter of Amram and Jochebed.
Miriam first appears in Exod 2 as the unnamed older sister of Moses who watches over his basket in the Nile, and arranges the services of their own mother as Moses’ wet-nurse. She is more than a decade older than Moses, and is referred to in Exod 2:8 as עַלְמָה (almah), the term for a young woman of marriageable age.
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