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Meaning of REBEKAH

Pronunciation:  ri'beku

 
WordNet Dictionary
 
 Definition: 
[n]  (Old Testament) wife of Isaac and mother of Jacob and Esau
 

REBEKAH is a 7 letter word that starts with R.

 

 Synonyms: Rebecca
 
 See Also: married woman, wife

 

 

Easton Bible Dictionary
 
 Definition: 

a noose, the daughter of Bethuel, and the wife of Isaac (Gen. 22:23; 24:67). The circumstances under which Abraham's "steward" found her at the "city of Nahor," in Padan-aram, are narrated in Gen. 24-27. "She can hardly be regarded as an amiable woman. When we first see her she is ready to leave her father's house for ever at an hour's notice; and her future life showed not only a full share of her brother Laban's duplicity, but the grave fault of partiality in her relations to her children, and a strong will, which soon controlled the gentler nature of her husband." The time and circumstances of her death are not recorded, but it is said that she was buried in the cave of Machpelah (Gen. 49:31).

 
Glossary
 
 Definition:  fat; fattened; a quarrel appeased
 

 

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