Dict: smith - MIRIAM

smith:

MIRIAM - M>@ - (rebellion), the sister of Moses, was the eldest of that sacred family; and she first appears, probably as a young girl, watching her infant brother’s cradle in the Nile, kjv@Exodus:2:4) and suggesting her mother as a nurse. ver. 7. After the crossing of the Red Sea "Miriam the prophetess" is her acknowledged title. ch. kjv@Exodus:15:20) The prophetic power showed itself in her under the same form as that which it assumed in the days of Samuel and David,
poetry, accompanied with music and processions. ch. kjv@Exodus:15:1-19) She took the lead, with Aaron, in the complaint against Moses for his marriage with a Cushite, kjv@Numbers:12:1-2) and for this was attacked with leprosy. This stroke and its removal, which took place at Hazeroth, form the last public event of Miriam’s life. ch. kjv@Numbers:12:1-15) She died toward the close of the wanderings at Kadesh, and was buried there. ch. kjv@Numbers:20:1) (B.C. about 1452.)