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Rebekah - What does it mean?

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rebekah

English

Alternative forms

* Rebecca

Proper noun

(en proper noun)
  • The sister of Laban; Isaac's wife; the mother of Jacob and Esau.
  • * 1611 , , Genesis 25:20
    • And Isaac was fortie yeeres old when hee tooke Rebekah to wife, the daughter of Bethuel the Syrian of Padan Aram, the ?i?ter to Laban the Syrian.
  • * 1611 , , Romans 9:10, 12
    • And not onely this'', but when Rebecca also had conceiued by one, ''euen by our father Isaac, [...] It was ?aid vnto her, The elder ?hall ?erue the yonger.
  • , a less-common variant of Rebecca .

    • Usage notes

    The spelling Rebecca'' originates from the Latin Vulgate, which from the 4th century onward was the Bible that was used for centuries in Western Christianity. When the King James Version appeared in 1611, the spelling ''Rebekah'' was used in the Old Testament, but the spelling ''Rebecca was retained in the New Testament.

    Not English

    has no English definition. It may be misspelled.