Word Study · Strong's H7259 · Hebrew
רִבְקָה
Ribqah
rib-kaw'
Strong's 1890 spelling: Ribqâh
“Ribkah, the wife of Isaac”
Strong's Dictionary · 1890 · public domain
Ribkah, the wife of Isaac
Rendered in the KJV as
Rebekah.
- 30occurrencesin the Old Testament
- 1 of 39Old Testament bookswhere the word stands
- 19inflected formsdistinct spellings
Across 30 occurrences
The word itself
Inflected forms · 19
- רִבְקָ֥ה4
- רִבְקָה֙3
- רִבְקָ֖ה3
- רִבְקָ֔ה3
- רִבְקָ֣ה2
- רִבְקָ֤ה2
- וּלְרִבְקָ֥ה1
- וּלְרִבְקָֽה׃ ס1
- וְרִבְקָ֖ה1
- וְרִבְקָ֣ה1
- וְרִבְקָה֙1
- לְרִבְקָ֑ה1
and 7 more spellings in the ledger below.
How it is rendered · 5
- Rebekah22
- and Rebekah3
- to Rebekah3
- and [belonged] to Rebekah1
- and to Rebekah1
The sense the word carries at each spot — how the translators read it there, not a fixed translation.
How it parses · 4
- proper noun (a name)22
- conjunction (“and”) + proper noun (a name)3
- preposition + proper noun (a name)3
- conjunction (“and”) + preposition + proper noun (a name)2
Show the grammar codes as tagged
- HNpf · 22
- HC/Npf · 3
- HR/Npf · 3
- HC/R/Npf · 2
All 30, in canonical order
The ledger of occurrences
Genesis30 occurrences
- Genesis 22:23רִבְקָ֑הrivkahproper noun (a name)And Bethuel became the father of Rebekah. Milcah bore these eight sons to Abraham’s brother Nahor.here: Rebekah
- Genesis 24:15רִבְקָ֣הrivkahproper noun (a name)Before the servant had finished praying, Rebekah came out with her jar on her shoulder. She was the daughter of Bethuel son of Milcah, the wife of Abraham’s brother Nahor.here: Rebekah
- Genesis 24:29וּלְרִבְקָ֥הulerivkahconjunction (“and”) + preposition + proper noun (a name)Now Rebekah had a brother named Laban, and he rushed out to the man at the spring.here: and [belonged] to Rebekah
- Genesis 24:30רִבְקָ֤הrivkahproper noun (a name)As soon as he saw the ring, and the bracelets on his sister’s wrists, and heard Rebekah’s words, “The man said this to me,” he went and found the man standing by the camels near the spring.here: Rebekah
- Genesis 24:45רִבְקָ֤הrivkahproper noun (a name)And before I had finished praying in my heart, there was Rebekah coming out with her jar on her shoulder, and she went down to the spring and drew water. So I said to her, ‘Please give me a drink.’here: Rebekah
- Genesis 24:51רִבְקָ֥הrivkahproper noun (a name)Rebekah is here before you. Take her and go, and let her become the wife of your master’s son, just as the LORD has decreed.”here: Rebekah
- Genesis 24:53לְרִבְקָ֑הlerivkahpreposition + proper noun (a name)Then he brought out jewels of silver and gold, and articles of clothing, and he gave them to Rebekah. He also gave precious gifts to her brother and her mother.here: to Rebekah
- Genesis 24:58לְרִבְקָה֙lerivkahpreposition + proper noun (a name)They called Rebekah and asked her, “Will you go with this man?” “I will go,” she replied.here: to Rebekah
- Genesis 24:59רִבְקָ֥הrivkahproper noun (a name)So they sent their sister Rebekah on her way, along with her nurse and Abraham’s servant and his men.here: Rebekah
- Genesis 24:60רִבְקָה֙rivkahproper noun (a name)And they blessed Rebekah and said to her, “Our sister, may you become the mother of thousands upon thousands. May your offspring possess the gates of their enemies.”here: Rebekah
- Genesis 24:61רִבְקָ֜הrivkahproper noun (a name)Then Rebekah and her servant girls got ready, mounted the camels, and followed the man. So the servant took Rebekah and left.here: Rebekah
- Genesis 24:61רִבְקָ֖הrivkahproper noun (a name)Then Rebekah and her servant girls got ready, mounted the camels, and followed the man. So the servant took Rebekah and left.here: Rebekah
- Genesis 24:64רִבְקָה֙rivkahproper noun (a name)And when Rebekah looked up and saw Isaac, she got down from her camelhere: Rebekah
- Genesis 24:67רִבְקָ֛הrivkahproper noun (a name)And Isaac brought her into the tent of his mother Sarah and took Rebekah as his wife. And Isaac loved her and was comforted after his mother’s death.here: Rebekah
- Genesis 25:20רִבְקָ֗הrivkahproper noun (a name)and Isaac was forty years old when he married Rebekah, the daughter of Bethuel the Aramean from Paddan-aram and the sister of Laban the Aramean.here: Rebekah
- Genesis 25:21רִבְקָ֥הrivkahproper noun (a name)Later, Isaac prayed to the LORD on behalf of his wife, because she was barren. And the LORD heard his prayer, and his wife Rebekah conceived.here: Rebekah
- Genesis 25:28וְרִבְקָ֖הverivkahconjunction (“and”) + proper noun (a name)Because Isaac had a taste for wild game, he loved Esau; but Rebekah loved Jacob.here: and Rebekah
- Genesis 26:7רִבְקָ֔הrivkahproper noun (a name)But when the men of that place asked about his wife, he said, “She is my sister.” For he was afraid to say, “She is my wife,” since he thought to himself, “The men of this place will kill me on account of Rebekah, because she is so beautiful.”here: Rebekah
- Genesis 26:8רִבְקָ֥הrivkahproper noun (a name)When Isaac had been there a long time, Abimelech king of the Philistines looked down from the window and was surprised to see Isaac caressing his wife Rebekah.here: Rebekah
- Genesis 26:35וּלְרִבְקָֽה׃ סulerivkahconjunction (“and”) + preposition + proper noun (a name)And they brought grief to Isaac and Rebekah.here: and to Rebekah
- Genesis 27:5וְרִבְקָ֣הverivkahconjunction (“and”) + proper noun (a name)Now Rebekah was listening to what Isaac told his son Esau. So when Esau went into the field to hunt game and bring it back,here: and Rebekah
- Genesis 27:6וְרִבְקָה֙verivkahconjunction (“and”) + proper noun (a name)Rebekah said to her son Jacob, “Behold, I overheard your father saying to your brother Esau,here: and Rebekah
- Genesis 27:11רִבְקָ֖הrivkahproper noun (a name)Jacob answered his mother Rebekah, “Look, my brother Esau is a hairy man, but I am smooth-skinned.here: Rebekah
- Genesis 27:15רִ֠בְקָהrivkahproper noun (a name)And Rebekah took the finest clothes in the house that belonged to her older son Esau, and she put them on her younger son Jacob.here: Rebekah
- Genesis 27:42לְרִבְקָ֔הlerivkahpreposition + proper noun (a name)When the words of her older son Esau were relayed to Rebekah, she sent for her younger son Jacob and told him, “Look, your brother Esau is consoling himself by plotting to kill you.here: to Rebekah
- Genesis 27:46רִבְקָה֙rivkahproper noun (a name)Then Rebekah said to Isaac, “I am weary of my life because of these Hittite women. If Jacob takes a Hittite wife from among them, what good is my life?”here: Rebekah
- Genesis 28:5רִבְקָ֔הrivkahproper noun (a name)So Isaac sent Jacob to Paddan-aram, to Laban son of Bethuel the Aramean, the brother of Rebekah, who was the mother of Jacob and Esau.here: Rebekah
- Genesis 29:12רִבְקָ֖הrivkahproper noun (a name)He told Rachel that he was Rebekah’s son, a relative of her father, and she ran and told her father.here: Rebekah
- Genesis 35:8רִבְקָ֔הrivkahproper noun (a name)Now Deborah, Rebekah’s nurse, died and was buried under the oak below Bethel. So Jacob named it Allon-bachuth.here: Rebekah
- Genesis 49:31רִבְקָ֣הrivkahproper noun (a name)There Abraham and his wife Sarah are buried, there Isaac and his wife Rebekah are buried, and there I buried Leah.here: Rebekah