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Keziah (Hebrew: קְצִיעָה Qəṣī‘ā; Greek: Κασία, Kasia; also Ketziah) is a woman in the Hebrew Bible. She was the second of the three daughters born to Job after his sufferings (Job 42:14–17). Her elder sister was Jemima and her younger sister Keren-Happuch.

The name Keziah means 'cinnamon bark’, referring to the Hebrew word ‘to scrape off’.. Job gave the name to one of his daughters born after his restoration following the trials he faced in the first part of his life. The name has been taken to symbolize female equality, since all of Job's three daughters received an inheritance from their father, an unusual circumstance in a time period when women and men were not treated equally.

References

1. Achtermeier, Paul J., ed. (1996). The HarperCollins Bible Dictionary (2 ed.). San Francisco: HarperCollins. ISBN 0-06-060037-3. OCLC 34965544.

• Book of Job people
• Job (biblical figure)
• Women in the Hebrew Bible