The prophetess was the wife of the prophet Isaiah and the mother of at least two sons with symbolic names. She is mentioned by name only once in the Bible, but her role as the mother of children with prophetic names was significant for Isaiah's message to Judah.
Isaiah refers to his wife as 'the prophetess' when she became pregnant with their second son, which may indicate that she herself had a prophetic gift or function.
She gave birth to the son Maher-Shalal-Hash-Baz, whose name means 'Hasten to the spoil, speed to the plunder' - a prophetic sign of Assyria's coming conquest of Syria and Northern Israel.
4For before the boy knows how to say "My father" or "My mother," the wealth of Damascus and the spoil of Samaria will be carried off before the king of Assyria.
3Then the LORD said to Isaiah, "Go out to meet Ahaz, you and your son Shear-Jashub,* at the end of the aqueduct of the Upper Pool, on the road to the Launderer's Field,