Rebekah
Proper noun
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Proper noun
- The sister of Laban; Isaac's wife; the mother of Jacob and Esau.
- 1611, King James Version of the Bible, 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 ſiſter to Laban the Syrian.
- 1611, King James Version of the Bible, Romans 9:10, 12 ↗
- And not onely this, but when Rebecca also had conceiued by one, euen by our father Isaac, [...] It was ſaid vnto her, The elder ſhall ſerue the yonger.
- 1611, King James Version of the Bible, Genesis 25:20 ↗
- A female given name, a less-common variant of Rebecca.
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