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(Hebrew, “Jew, the praised one”).
(a) One of Esau’s wives (Gen. 26:34), also called Oholibamah (“my tent of the high place”) (Gen. 26:2).

(b) she is also the name of the heroine of the apocryphal book named after her, written between the 5th and 2nd centuries BC; she is in the LXX version, but not in the Hebrew canon of Scripture.

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