Rebekah

name

Definitions

Proper Noun
  1. 1
    The sister of Laban; Isaac's wife; the mother of Jacob and Esau.

    "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."

  2. 2
    A female given name from Hebrew, a less-common variant of Rebecca.

Etymology

From Hebrew רִבְקָה (Riḇqāh, “enchantingly beautiful, captivating, snare”).

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