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rebekah


  2  definitions  found 
 
  From  Easton's  1897  Bible  Dictionary  [easton]: 
 
  Rebekah 
  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). 
 
 
  From  Hitchcock's  Bible  Names  Dictionary  (late  1800's)  [hitchcock]: 
 
  Rebekah,  fat;  fattened;  a  quarrel  appeased 
 




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