rivka · Rebekah

What it means

rivka (רִבְקָה) is a Hebrew word of the Bible that means “Rebekah”.

Daughter of Bethuel, wife of Isaac; mother of Esau and Jacob.

How to say it

Approximate pronunciation. Vowels sound as in Spanish (a as in father, e as in bed, i as in machine, o as in note, u as in rule); the syllable in bold is stressed. The voice is your device's.

Where it appears

• Genesis 22:23

  Bethuel fathered Rebekah. These eight Milcah bore to Nahor, Abraham’s brother.

• Genesis 24:15

  It happened, before he had finished speaking, that, look, Rebekah was coming out, who was born to Bethuel son of Milcah, the wife of Nahor, Abraham’s brother, with her jar on her shoulder.

• Genesis 24:29

  Now Rebekah had a brother whose name was Laban. Laban ran out to the man, to the spring.

• Genesis 24:30

  When he saw the ring and the bracelets on the hands of his sister, and when he heard the words of Rebekah his sister, saying, “Thus the man spoke to me,” he went to the man; and look, he was standing by the camels at the spring.

• Genesis 24:45

  Before I had finished speaking in my heart, look, Rebekah came out with her jar on her shoulder, and she went down to the spring and drew. I said to her, ‘Please let me drink.’

• Genesis 24:51

  Look, Rebekah is before you; take her and go, and let her be the wife of your lord’s son, as YHWH has spoken.”

• Genesis 24:53

  The servant brought out objects of silver and objects of gold, and garments, and gave them to Rebekah; and costly gifts he gave to her brother and to her mother.

• Genesis 24:58

  They called Rebekah and said to her, “Will you go with this man?” She said, “I will go.”

• Genesis 24:59

  So they sent away Rebekah their sister and her nurse, and Abraham’s servant and his men.

• Genesis 24:60

  They blessed Rebekah and said to her, “Our sister, may you become thousands of ten thousands, and may your offspring possess the gate of those who hate it.”

• Genesis 24:61

  Rebekah and her girls rose and rode on the camels and followed the man. So the servant took Rebekah and went.

• Genesis 24:64

  Rebekah lifted up her eyes and saw Isaac, and she got down from the camel.

• Genesis 24:67

  Isaac brought her into the tent of Sarah his mother, and he took Rebekah, and she became his wife, and he loved her. So Isaac was comforted after the death of his mother.

• Genesis 25:20

  Isaac was forty years old when he took Rebekah, the daughter of Bethuel the Aramean from Paddan-aram, the sister of Laban the Aramean, as his wife.

• Genesis 25:21

  Isaac pleaded with YHWH on behalf of his wife, because she was barren; and YHWH granted his plea, and Rebekah his wife conceived.

• Genesis 25:28

  Isaac loved Esau, because game was to his taste, but Rebekah loved Jacob.

• Genesis 26:7

  The men of the place asked about his wife, and he said, “She is my sister,” for he was afraid to say, “My wife,” thinking, “lest the men of the place kill me on account of Rebekah, for she is beautiful in appearance.”

• Genesis 26:8

  When he had been there a long time, Abimelech king of the Philistines looked down through the window and saw, and look, Isaac was caressing Rebekah his wife.

• Genesis 26:35

  and they were bitterness of spirit to Isaac and to Rebekah.

• Genesis 27:5

  Now Rebekah was listening while Isaac spoke to Esau his son. And Esau went to the field to hunt game and to bring it.

• Genesis 27:6

  Rebekah said to Jacob her son, “Look, I heard your father speaking to Esau your brother, saying,

• Genesis 27:11

  Jacob said to Rebekah his mother, “Look, Esau my brother is a hairy man, and I am a smooth man.

• Genesis 27:15

  Then Rebekah took the best garments of Esau her older son, which were with her in the house, and put them on Jacob her younger son.

• Genesis 27:42

  The words of Esau her older son were told to Rebekah, and she sent and called Jacob her younger son and said to him, “Look, Esau your brother is consoling himself about you by planning to kill you.

• Genesis 27:46

  Rebekah said to Isaac, “I am weary of my life because of the daughters of Heth. If Jacob takes a wife from the daughters of Heth, like these, from the daughters of the land, what good is life to me?”

• Genesis 28:5

  So Isaac sent away Jacob, and he went to Paddan-aram, to Laban son of Bethuel the Aramean, the brother of Rebekah, the mother of Jacob and Esau.

• Genesis 29:12

  Jacob told Rachel that he was her father’s brother and that he was Rebekah’s son; and she ran and told her father.

• Genesis 35:8

  Deborah, Rebekah’s nurse, died and was buried below Bethel under the oak; so he called its name Allon-bacuth.

• Genesis 49:31

  There they buried Abraham and Sarah his wife; there they buried Isaac and Rebekah his wife; and there I buried Leah.

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