What Does “Nurse” Mean in the Bible?
Office or title
A woman who breastfeeds and raises another woman’s child.
Where it appears in the Bible
Exodus 2:7; Genesis 35:8
What the Bible says
Exodus 2:7
And the child’s sister said to her Shall I go and call to thee a Hebrew woman, to nurse the babe?
Genesis 35:8
At the same time Debora the nurse of Rebecca died, and was buried at the foot of Bethel under an oak: and the name of that place was called, The oak of weeping.
Douay-Rheims Bible (Challoner revision), public domain.
Source: RAE, “nodriza”