Rebecca vs Becki - What's the difference?
rebecca | becki |
, in regular use since the Reformation.
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* 1809 , Poetry for Children: Choosing a Name :
* 1949 , Sexus , Grove Press 1965, ISBN 0802151809, page 312:
* 1997 Robert T. Tauber, Self-fulfilling Prophecy , Greenwood Publishing Group, ISBN 0275955028, page 61:
A fanciful respelling of Becky, diminutive of the female given name Rebecca.
English diminutives of female given names
As proper nouns the difference between rebecca and becki
is that rebecca is rebekah (biblical character) while becki is a fanciful respelling of becky, diminutive of the female given name rebecca.rebecca
English
Alternative forms
* Rebekah * RebekkaProper noun
(s)- And not only this; but when Rebecca also had conceived by one, even by our father Isaac; (For the children being not yet born, neither having done any good or evil, that the purpose of God according to election might stand, not of works, but of him that calleth;) It was said unto her, The elder shall serve the younger.
- They would say, if 'twas Rebecca ,
- That she is a little Quaker.
- "What's her name?" I asked. "Rebecca. Rebecca' Valentine." The name '''Rebecca''' excited me. I had always wanted to meet a woman called '''Rebecca''' - and not Becky. ( ' Rebecca , Ruth, Roxane, Rosalind, Frederika, Ursula, Sheila, Norma, Guinevere, Leonora, Sabina, Malvina, Solange, Deirdre. What wonderful names women had! Like flowers, stars, constellations...)
- Our daughter's name, Rebecca', summons up similar visions. Although our family is not Jewish, both names (David and ' Rebecca ) have a Hebrew ancestry which, in the eyes of many beholders ( i.e. teachers ) invokes a vision of a family that values education.