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Rebekah (Person)
REBEKAH (PERSON) [Heb ribqâ (רִבְקָה)]. Var. REBECCA. Wife of Isaac, mother of the twins Esau and Jacob, daughter of Bethuel (Abraham’s nephew), and sister of Laban (Gen 22:23). She is thus also Isaac’s cousin once removed, since her grandfather Nahor was Abraham’s brother. See Fig. REB.01.Older etymologies

Rebekah, Rebecca
Rebekah, Rebecca. Daughter of Bethuel and the wife of the patriarch Isaac. Her name appears 31 times in Genesis (primarily chs 24–27) and once in Romans 9:10. The same Hebrew letters spell “stall” and refer to stall-fed cattle as opposed to pastured cattle. Her name might be translated therefore as “well-fed”

Rebekah
Rebekah rə-bekʹə [Heb. riḇqâ] (Gen. 22:23; 24:15, etc.); NEB REBECCA; REBECCA [Gk. Rhebekka] (Rom. 9:10); NEB REBEKAH. The daughter of Bethuel, wife of Isaac, and mother of Jacob and Esau. The meaning of her name is uncertain. It may derive from the root rbq, “bind,” or, with the consonants reversed,

Rebecca, Rebekah
REBECCA*, REBEKAH Daughter of Bethuel and the wife of the patriarch Isaac. Her name, which means “well fed” or “choice,” appears 31 times in Genesis (primarily in chs 24–27) and once in Romans 9:10.Rebekah’s father was Bethuel, who in turn was the son of Milcah and Nahor, Abraham’s brother (Gn 22:20–23).

Rebekah
Rebekah (ri-bek´uh), the wife of Isaac, the daughter of Bethuel (Abraham’s nephew), the sister of Laban, and the mother of Jacob and Esau. Gen. 24 recounts how Abraham’s servant returned to his homeland to find a wife for Isaac, and how (in response to prayer) he found Rebekah at the well. By giving

Rebekah
REBEKAH. A daughter of Bethuel, sister of Laban, wife of Isaac, and mother of Esau and Jacob. A servant of Abraham was sent to obtain a wife for Isaac (Gen 24). When he arrived at the well outside the city of Nahor in Padan-aram, he asked for a sign that he might make the proper choice. When Rebekah

Rebekah, Rebecca
REBEKAH, REBECCA (Heb. riḇqâ, cf. Arab. ‘a looped cord for tying young animals’ from rabaqa, ‘to tie fast’; Gk. rhebekka). The wife of Isaac, daughter of Bethuel, Abraham’s nephew (Gn. 22:23). The account of the choice of Rebekah as Isaac’s wife (Gn. 24) strongly emphasizes the guidance and overruling

Rebekah
Rebekah (Heb. riḇqâ)The wife of Isaac and the mother of Jacob and Esau; daughter of Bethuel and sister of Laban (Gen. 22:23; 24:29). When Abraham sends his servant to find a wife for Isaac from his Mesopotamian homeland, Rebekah is encountered at a well outside the city of Nahor (Gen. 24:11–49). She

Rebekah
Rebekah [rə bĕkˊə] (Heb. riḇqâ).† The daughter of Bethuel and sister of Laban, who became the wife of Isaac and mother of Jacob and Esau.Abraham sent his chief servant to the patriarch’s northern Mesopotamian homeland to find a wife for his son Isaac (Gen. 24:1–10). In accordance with the servant’s

Rebekah
REBEKAH The wife of the patriarch Isaac and the mother of his two sons, Jacob and Esau. She was living in upper Mesopotamia with her father, Bethuel, and her brother Laban when Abraham sent one of his servants to find Isaac a wife, lest he have to marry a Canaanite woman (Gen 24:1–67). Like Sarah before

Rebekah
Rebek´ah (ensnarer), daughter of Bethuel, Gen. 22:23, and sister of Laban, married to Isaac. She is first presented to us in Gen. 24, where the beautiful story of her marriage is related. (b.c. 1857.) For nineteen years she was childless: then Esau and Jacob were born, the younger being the mother’s
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Abraham
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Sarah
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Laban
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Isaac
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Jacob
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Esau
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Rachel
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Leah
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Bilhah
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Asher
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Dan
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