rachel · Rachel

What it means

rachel (רָחֵל) is a Hebrew word of the Bible that means “Rachel”.

Younger daughter of Laban, Jacob's beloved wife; mother of Joseph and Benjamin. Her name means "ewe".

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.

Related words

Words of the same family, by Strong’s numbering.

Where it appears

• Genesis×44
• Ruth×1
• 1 Samuel×1
• Jeremiah×1

• Genesis 29:6

  He said to them, “Is it well with him?” They said, “It is well; and look, Rachel his daughter is coming with the sheep.”

• Genesis 29:9

  While he was still speaking with them, Rachel came with the sheep that belonged to her father, for she was a shepherdess.

• Genesis 29:10

  When Jacob saw Rachel the daughter of Laban his mother’s brother, and the sheep of Laban his mother’s brother, Jacob came near and rolled the stone from the mouth of the well and watered the sheep of Laban his mother’s brother.

• Genesis 29:11

  Jacob kissed Rachel, and he lifted up his voice and wept.

• 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 29:16

  Now Laban had two daughters; the name of the older was Leah, and the name of the younger was Rachel.

• Genesis 29:17

  Leah’s eyes were tender, but Rachel was beautiful in form and beautiful in appearance.

• Genesis 29:18

  Jacob loved Rachel, and he said, “I will serve you seven years for Rachel your younger daughter.”

• Genesis 29:20

  So Jacob served seven years for Rachel, and they were in his eyes like a few days because of his love for her.

• Genesis 29:25

  In the morning, look, she was Leah! And he said to Laban, “What is this you have done to me? Was it not for Rachel that I served with you? Why have you deceived me?”

• Genesis 29:28

  Jacob did so, and completed the week of this one; and he gave him Rachel his daughter as his wife.

• Genesis 29:29

  Laban gave to Rachel his daughter Bilhah his slave woman, to her as a slave woman.

• Genesis 29:30

  He went in to Rachel also, and he also loved Rachel more than Leah; and he served with him yet another seven years.

• Genesis 29:31

  YHWH saw that Leah was hated, and he opened her womb; but Rachel was barren.

• Genesis 30:1

  Rachel saw that she had not borne children to Jacob, and Rachel envied her sister and said to Jacob, “Give me children, or else I will die.”

• Genesis 30:2

  Jacob’s anger burned against Rachel, and he said, “Am I in the place of Elohim, who has withheld from you the fruit of the womb?”

• Genesis 30:6

  Rachel said, “Elohim has vindicated me, and he has also heard my voice and given me a son.” That is why she called his name Dan.

• Genesis 30:7

  Bilhah, Rachel’s slave woman, conceived again and bore Jacob a second son.

• Genesis 30:8

  Rachel said, “With wrestlings of Elohim I have wrestled with my sister, and I have prevailed.” So she called his name Naphtali.

• Genesis 30:14

  In the days of the wheat harvest Reuben went and found mandrakes in the field and brought them to Leah his mother. Rachel said to Leah, “Please give me some of the mandrakes of your son.”

• Genesis 30:15

  She said to her, “Is it a small thing that you have taken my husband? Would you take my son’s mandrakes too?” Rachel said, “Then he will lie with you tonight in exchange for the mandrakes of your son.”

• Genesis 30:22

  Elohim remembered Rachel, and Elohim heard her and opened her womb.

• Genesis 30:25

  When Rachel had borne Joseph, Jacob said to Laban, “Send me away, so that I may go to my own place and to my land.

• Genesis 31:4

  So Jacob sent and called Rachel and Leah to the field, to his flock.

• Genesis 31:14

  Rachel and Leah answered and said to him, “Is there still for us a portion or an inheritance in the house of our father?

• Genesis 31:19

  Now Laban had gone to shear his sheep, and Rachel stole the teraphim that belonged to her father.

• Genesis 31:32

  Anyone with whom you find your gods shall not live. In the presence of our brothers, recognize for yourself what of yours is with me and take it for yourself.” Now Jacob did not know that Rachel had stolen them.

• Genesis 31:33

  So Laban went into Jacob’s tent, and into Leah’s tent, and into the tent of the two slave women, but he did not find them. He came out of Leah’s tent and went into Rachel’s tent.

• Genesis 31:34

  Now Rachel had taken the teraphim and put them in the saddle of the camel and sat on them. Laban felt through the whole tent but did not find them.

• Genesis 33:1

  Jacob lifted his eyes and looked, and look, Esau was coming, and with him four hundred men. So he divided the children among Leah, Rachel, and the two slave women.

• Genesis 33:2

  He put the slave women and their children first, Leah and her children after them, and Rachel and Joseph last.

• Genesis 33:7

  Leah also came near with her children, and they bowed down; and afterward Joseph came near with Rachel, and they bowed down.

• Genesis 35:16

  They set out from Bethel, and when there was still some distance to go to Ephrath, Rachel went into labor, and her labor was hard.

• Genesis 35:19

  So Rachel died and was buried on the way to Ephrath (that is, Bethlehem).

• Genesis 35:20

  Jacob set up a standing stone on her grave; it is the standing stone of Rachel’s grave to this day.

• Genesis 35:24

  The sons of Rachel: Joseph and Benjamin.

• Genesis 35:25

  The sons of Bilhah, Rachel’s slave woman: Dan and Naphtali.

• Genesis 46:19

  The sons of Rachel, Jacob’s wife: Joseph and Benjamin.

• Genesis 46:22

  These are the sons of Rachel who were born to Jacob; all the persons were fourteen.

• Genesis 46:25

  These are the sons of Bilhah, whom Laban gave to Rachel his daughter; and she bore these to Jacob; all the persons were seven.

And 7 more times.