Old Testament

(Note: Women with stories are bold, and women whose stories I haven't posted on yet, have an Asterix.)

Genesis
Complete List of Named Women:

  1. Eve*
  2. Adah*
  3. Zillah*
  4. Naamah
  5. Sarai*
  6. Milcah
  7. Hagar*
  8. Rebekah (a different one)
  9. Reumah
  10. Rebekah* 
  11. Keturah
  12. Judith
  13. Bashemath
  14. Mahalath
  15. Rachel*
  16. Deborah*
  17. Leah*
  18. Bilhah*
  19. Zillpah*
  20. Dinah
  21. Adah
  22. Anah
  23. Bashemath
  24. Aholibamah
  25. Timna
  26. Mehetabel
  27. Matred
  28. Shuah
  29. Tamar
  30. Asenath
  31. Serah

Complete List of Unnamed Women:

  1. Cain's Wife
  2. Daughters of Adam
  3. Daughters of Seth
  4. Daughters of Enos
  5. Daughters of Cainan
  6. Daughters of Mahalaleel
  7. Daughters of Enoch
  8. Daughters of Methuselah
  9. Daughters of Lamech
  10. Daughters of Men (who bare mighty sons)
  11. Noah's Wife and the Wives of Noah's Sons
  12. Technically the Dove Noah sends out of the ark
  13. Daughters of Shem
  14. Daughters of Arphaxad
  15. Daughters of Salah
  16. Daughters of Eber
  17. Daughters of Peleg
  18. Daughters of Reu
  19. Daughters of Sarug
  20. Daughters of Nahor
  21. Lot's Wife*
  22. Lot's married daughters*
  23. Lot's unmarried daughters*
  24. Rebekah's mother
  25. Maidservants given to Abraham
  26. Rebekah's nurse
  27. Abraham's Concubines
  28. Daughters of Canaan
  29. Women-servants sent by Jacob to placate Esau
  30. Daughters of Hamor's city
  31. Daughters of Jacob
  32. Daughter of Shuah (Judah's canaanite wife)
  33. Tamar's midwife
  34. Potiphar's Wife*
    1. Here's a great post on this story: Potiphar's Wife
Exodus

Complete List of Named Women:
  1. Shiphrah
  2. Puah
  3. Zipporah
  4. Elisheba
  5. Amminadab
Complete List of Unnamed Women:
  1. Hebrew women
  2. Hebrew daughters
  3. Moses's sister
  4. Daughter of Pharaoh
  5. The Pharaoh's daughter's maidens
  6. The Pharaoh's daughter's maid
  7. Reuel's 7 daughters (the priest of Midian)
Leviticus
Complete List of Named Women:
  1.  Shelomith
Complete List of Unnamed Women:
  1.  Israelite women
Numbers
    Complete List of Named Women:
    1. Cozbi
    2. Mahlah
    3. Noah
    4. Hoglah
    5. Milcah
    6. Tirzah
    7. Sarah
    8. Jochebed (Aram's wife, daughter of Levi, Moses & Aaron & Miriam's mom)
    Complete List of Unnamed Women:
    1.  Israelite women
    Deuteronomy
      No named women, but they do mention Israelite women in general when discussing lots of laws involving women.

      Joshua
        Complete List of Named Women
        1. Rahab
        2. Achsah
        Also mentions Noah, Hoglah, Milcah, Tirzah, and Mahlah again. 

        Complete List of Unnamed Women:
        1. Rahab's sisters
        2. Rahab's mother
        3. Israelite women
        4. Achan's daughters
        5. Women of the city Ai
        Judges
          Complete List of Named Women
          1. Achsah (mentioned again)
          2. Deborah
          3. Jael
          4. Delilah

          Complete List of Unnamed Women:
          1. Sisera's mother
          2. Sisera's mother's wise ladies
          3. Daughters of Canaanites
          4. Daughters of Israelites
          5. Gideon's wives
          6. Abimelech's mother
          7. The women of Shechem
          8. The woman who killed Abimelech
          9. Jephthah's harlot mother
          10. Gilead's wife
          11. Jephthah's daughter
          12. Jephthah's daughter's companions
          13. Ibzan's daughters
          14. Ibzan's daughters-in-law
          15. Samson's mother, Manoah's Wife
          16. Samson's "wife"
          17. Micah's mother
          18. The Old Man of Gibeah's daughter
          19. The Concubine
          20. Daughters of Shiloh
          21. Women of Jabesh-gilead

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