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# רִבְקָה

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H7259

**Rebekah** — used 30 times in the Hebrew Bible. Below: its meanings with their sources, MACULA's glosses, and 2 verses word for word and in JPS 1917.

## Meaning

### OpenScriptures lexical index

Rebekah [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1512/7259/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

רִבְקָה: n.pr.f. Rebekah [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1512/7259/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** n.pr.f. Rebekah, daughter of Bethuel and wife of Isaac, Gn 22:23; 24:15 + 24 times 24, 25, 26, 27; 28:5; 29:12; 35:8; 49:31;—𝔊 Ρεβεκκα.

Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 6 of its verses cited, 1 words shared with the glosses, lists its Strong's number (1 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 1 words shared with the BDB entry, 1 with the glosses (1 candidates)

## Glosses

MACULA's English glosses of the word in the text, with how often each is used: Rebekah (26); of Rebekah (4).

## In the verses

[Genesis 26:35](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/GEN.26.35/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/GEN.26.35/#tree)

וַתִּהְיֶ֖יןָ מֹ֣רַת ר֑וּחַ לְיִצְחָ֖ק וּלְרִבְקָֽה׃ס

*Word for word:* and they.were bitterness of.spirit to Isaac and to Rebekah

*JPS 1917:* And they were a bitterness of spirit unto Isaac and to Rebekah.

[Genesis 22:23](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/GEN.22.23/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/GEN.22.23/#tree)

וּבְתוּאֵ֖ל יָלַ֣ד אֶת־רִבְקָ֑ה שְׁמֹנָ֥ה אֵ֙לֶּה֙ יָלְדָ֣ה מִלְכָּ֔ה לְנָח֖וֹר אֲחִ֥י אַבְרָהָֽם׃

*Word for word:* and Bethuel he.fathered (et) Rebekah eight.\[sons\] these she.bore Milcah to Nahor the.brother of.Abraham

*JPS 1917:* And Bethuel begot Rebekah; these eight did Milcah bear to Nahor, Abraham's brother.

## On Mova

- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1512/7259/): every English meaning parsed by Mova, with its dependency tree and frames.

Sources. The words, their counts, glosses and the word-for-word renderings: MACULA Hebrew (the Westminster Leningrad Codex; Clear Bible, CC BY 4.0). Meanings: the OpenScriptures lexical index (CC BY 4.0), Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906 and Jastrow 1903 (public domain, via Sefaria); Targum Onkelos from Sefaria (public domain). Translation: JPS 1917 (public domain, from eBible.org).