Also spelled Debbora, prophet and heroine in the Old Testament (Judg. 4 and 5), who inspired the Israelites to a mighty victory over their Canaanite oppressors (the people who lived in the Promised Land, later Palestine, that Moses spoke of before its conquest by the Israelites); the Song of Deborah (Judg. 5), putatively composed by her, is perhaps the oldest section of the Bible and is of great importance
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