A name from Scripture
Rizpah
RIZ-puh
Meaning
Hot stone; Glowing coal
Hebrew origin · Girl · First in 2 Samuel
What it points to
Rizpah — a 'glowing coal' — burned with fierce maternal love that refused to be extinguished. Her months-long vigil teaches that persistent, sacrificial love can move even kings to act justly.
Verses · King James Version
“And Rizpah the daughter of Aiah took sackcloth, and spread it for her upon the rock... and suffered neither the birds of the air to rest on them by day, nor the beasts of the field by night.”
2 Samuel 21:10
“And after that God was intreated for the land.”
2 Samuel 21:14