(1) Rebekah's nurse, who accompanied her from Mesopotamia, and, dying, was buried beneath Bethel, under an oak, called in consequence Allon-bachuth = "oak of weeping" (Gen. xxiv. 59; xxxv. 8).
    (2) A prophetess, the wife of Lapidoth.  She lived under a palm-tree, called after her name, between Ramah and Bethel, in Mount Ephraim, and there was a "judge" or ruler of the Israelites.  It was she who summoned Barak to undertake the contest with Sisera, and, at her request, accompanied him to the rendezvous of his army, if not even to the field of battle (Judg. iv. 4-14).  Afterwards she joined with Barak in singing a song of triumph for victory, which was probably of her rather than of his composition (v. 1-31). (The Sunday School Teacher's Bible Manual, Hunter, 1894).