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Rachel vs Elizabeth - What's the difference?

rachel | elizabeth |

As proper nouns the difference between rachel and elizabeth

is that rachel is rachel (biblical character) while elizabeth is , popular since the 16th century.

rachel

English

Alternative forms

* Rachael * Rachelle

Proper noun

(en proper noun)
  • Younger daughter of Laban, sister to Leah, and second wife of Jacob.
  • *
  • And Laban had two daughters: the name of the elder was Leah, and the name of the younger was Rachel'. Leah was tender eyed; but '''Rachel''' was beautiful and well favoured. And Jacob loved '''Rachel'''; and said, I will serve thee seven years for ' Rachel thy younger daughter.
  • .
  • * 1849 The Massachusetts Teacher , Massachusetts Teachers' Association, Vol. 2,page 26, January 1849:
  • Rachel is another modest, nun-like name, of the same order as Judith, and has the appropriate signification of a lamb.
  • * 1979 , Shikasta , Knopf, 1979, ISBN 0394507321, page 293
  • She keeps saying, You are mistaken Rachel'. She says my name in that heavy earnest way. The Jewish '''Ra-chel'''. I like my name like that. I have always been pleased when people said ' Ra-chel . But when she says it, it is as if she was taking me over. Through my name.
  • * 2010 Rob Sachs, What Would Rob Do? , John Wiley & Sons, ISBN 0470457732:
  • I recognize that a name like Rachel goes against my whole "ordering a different dish from everyone else at the table" rule, but sometimes you really want a steak, and that's exactly what you should get. I love the name we gave our daughter. It's not dorky, not too whimsical, and not too stuck-up. To us it sounded sweet, sporty, smart, and beautiful. It also works well with Sachs.

    elizabeth

    English

    Alternative forms

    * Elisabeth

    Proper noun

    (en proper noun)
  • , popular since the 16th century.
  • * 1595 , Amoretti , LXXIV:
  • Most happy letters! framed by skilful trade, / With which that happy name was first designed, - - - / Ye three Elizabeths ! for ever live, / That three such graces did unto me give.
  • * 1988 Barbara Vine ( = ), The House of Stairs , p.21:
  • "Because if you say it over and over to yourself, darling, it really is a quite strange-sounding name, isn't it? It's just as strange as any other from the Old Testament, Mehetabel or Hepsibah or Shulamith, and any of them might have got to be as fashionable as Elizabeth if a queen had been called by them.
  • * 1993 , Gone But Not Forgotten , Bantam Books ISBN 0553569031 p.25:
  • No one ever called Elizabeth' Tannenbaum stunning, but most men found her attractive. Hardly anyone called her '''Elizabeth''', either. An "' Elizabeth " was regal, cool, an eyecatching beauty. A "Betsy" was pleasant to look at, a tiny bit overweight, capable, but still fun to be with.
  • The mother of John the Baptist .
  • * 1380s Wycliffe version of the Bible: Luke 1:5 :
  • In the daies of Eroude, kyng of Judee, ther was a prest, Sakarie bi name, of the sorte of Abia, and his wijf was of the douytris of Aaron, and hir name was Elizabeth .
  • Elisheba, the wife of Aaron.
  • * 1380s Wycliffe version of the Bible: Exodus 6:23 :
  • Sotheli Aaron took a wijf, Elizabeth ,the douytir of Amynadab, the sistr of Naason.

    See also

    * (pedialite)