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Hebrew proper noun (a person) · H7259

רִבְקָה

Ribqahrib-kaw'

Rebekah

30 uses in the Hebrew text, one for each word STEP Bible has tagged with this key

Concordance spelling: Ribqâh

Word page · Part of the concordance, one page for every word of the Hebrew and Greek text. Strong's H7259is this word's number in James Strong's 1890 index of the King James Bible.

  • 1 of 39
    Old Testament books
  • 19
    spellings

The definition in full

Strong's key (1890) · H7259

Ribkah, the wife of Isaac

The King James renders it: Rebekah.

James Strong, The Exhaustive Concordance of the Bible (1890), public domain. Strong indexed the King James text, and this site quotes his entry as that index.

Summary

Ribqah is rendered "Rebekah". It stands 30 times in the Hebrew text, across one book.

  • Thirty of the uses stand in Genesis, more than in any other book.
  • Its first use in canonical order opens the ledger below.Genesis 22:23And Bethuel became the father of Rebekah. Milcah bore these eight sons to Abraham’s brother Nahor.
  • The Greek text spells it nineteen different ways.

The first use

And Bethuel became the father of Rebekah. Milcah bore these eight sons to Abraham’s brother Nahor.

Genesis 22:23רִבְקָ֑ה

The first use, in the order of the Old Testament's books.

Where the word stands

Thirty of the word's thirty uses are in Genesis.

The other 38 Old Testament books never use the word.

What the word means

Each meaning, and the words it is translated by

How the Greek text is glossed, word by word

  • Rebekah22
  • and Rebekah3
  • to Rebekah3
  • and to Rebekah2

The words built on the same word-part

Each word below begins with the same letters this one begins with. A shared word-part shows a family. It does not settle what any one of them means, so each word carries its own uses on its own page. Scholars call that shared part the stem.

All 30, in canonical order

Every use, in order

Every use, grouped by book, with its verse.

19 spellings and their grammar

STEP Bible tags every word of the Hebrew and Greek text with its spelling and its grammar. Both lists below count the rows printed underneath, written out in English, with the code beside each one as it was tagged.

How it is spelled

  • רִבְקָ֥ה4
  • רִבְקָה֙3
  • רִבְקָ֖ה3
  • רִבְקָ֔ה3
  • רִבְקָ֣ה2
  • רִבְקָ֤ה2
  • וּלְרִבְקָ֥ה1
  • וּלְרִבְקָֽה׃ ס1
  • וְרִבְקָ֖ה1
  • וְרִבְקָ֣ה1
  • וְרִבְקָה֙1
  • לְרִבְקָ֑ה1

and 7 more spellings in the ledger below.

The grammar of each form

  • proper noun (a name)22HNpf
  • conjunction (“and”) + proper noun (a name)3HC/Npf
  • preposition + proper noun (a name)3HR/Npf
  • conjunction (“and”) + preposition + proper noun (a name)2HC/R/Npf

Genesis

thirty uses
  • And Bethuel became the father of Rebekah. Milcah bore these eight sons to Abraham’s brother Nahor.

    Genesis 22:23

    • רִבְקָ֑הrivkahproper noun (a name)tagged: Rebekah
  • 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.

    Genesis 24:15

    • רִבְקָ֣הrivkahproper noun (a name)tagged: Rebekah
  • Now Rebekah had a brother named Laban, and he rushed out to the man at the spring.

    Genesis 24:29

    • וּלְרִבְקָ֥הulerivkahconjunction (“and”) + preposition + proper noun (a name)tagged: and to Rebekah
  • 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.

    Genesis 24:30

    • רִבְקָ֤הrivkahproper noun (a name)tagged: Rebekah
  • 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.’

    Genesis 24:45

    • רִבְקָ֤הrivkahproper noun (a name)tagged: Rebekah
  • 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.”

    Genesis 24:51

    • רִבְקָ֥הrivkahproper noun (a name)tagged: Rebekah
  • 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.

    Genesis 24:53

    • לְרִבְקָ֑הlerivkahpreposition + proper noun (a name)tagged: to Rebekah
  • They called Rebekah and asked her, “Will you go with this man?” “I will go,” she replied.

    Genesis 24:58

    • לְרִבְקָה֙lerivkahpreposition + proper noun (a name)tagged: to Rebekah
  • So they sent their sister Rebekah on her way, along with her nurse and Abraham’s servant and his men.

    Genesis 24:59

    • רִבְקָ֥הrivkahproper noun (a name)tagged: Rebekah
  • 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.”

    Genesis 24:60

    • רִבְקָה֙rivkahproper noun (a name)tagged: Rebekah
  • Then Rebekah and her servant girls got ready, mounted the camels, and followed the man. So the servant took Rebekah and left.

    Genesis 24:61

    • רִבְקָ֜הrivkahproper noun (a name)tagged: Rebekah
    • רִבְקָ֖הrivkahproper noun (a name)tagged: Rebekah
  • And when Rebekah looked up and saw Isaac, she got down from her camel

    Genesis 24:64

    • רִבְקָה֙rivkahproper noun (a name)tagged: Rebekah
  • 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.

    Genesis 24:67

    • רִבְקָ֛הrivkahproper noun (a name)tagged: Rebekah
  • 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.

    Genesis 25:20

    • רִבְקָ֗הrivkahproper noun (a name)tagged: Rebekah
  • 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.

    Genesis 25:21

    • רִבְקָ֥הrivkahproper noun (a name)tagged: Rebekah
  • Because Isaac had a taste for wild game, he loved Esau; but Rebekah loved Jacob.

    Genesis 25:28

    • וְרִבְקָ֖הverivkahconjunction (“and”) + proper noun (a name)tagged: and Rebekah
  • 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.”

    Genesis 26:7

    • רִבְקָ֔הrivkahproper noun (a name)tagged: Rebekah
  • 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.

    Genesis 26:8

    • רִבְקָ֥הrivkahproper noun (a name)tagged: Rebekah
  • And they brought grief to Isaac and Rebekah.

    Genesis 26:35

    • וּלְרִבְקָֽה׃ סulerivkahconjunction (“and”) + preposition + proper noun (a name)tagged: and to Rebekah
  • 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,

    Genesis 27:5

    • וְרִבְקָ֣הverivkahconjunction (“and”) + proper noun (a name)tagged: and Rebekah
  • Rebekah said to her son Jacob, “Behold, I overheard your father saying to your brother Esau,

    Genesis 27:6

    • וְרִבְקָה֙verivkahconjunction (“and”) + proper noun (a name)tagged: and Rebekah
  • Jacob answered his mother Rebekah, “Look, my brother Esau is a hairy man, but I am smooth-skinned.

    Genesis 27:11

    • רִבְקָ֖הrivkahproper noun (a name)tagged: Rebekah
  • 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.

    Genesis 27:15

    • רִ֠בְקָהrivkahproper noun (a name)tagged: Rebekah
  • 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.

    Genesis 27:42

    • לְרִבְקָ֔הlerivkahpreposition + proper noun (a name)tagged: to Rebekah
  • 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?”

    Genesis 27:46

    • רִבְקָה֙rivkahproper noun (a name)tagged: Rebekah
  • 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.

    Genesis 28:5

    • רִבְקָ֔הrivkahproper noun (a name)tagged: Rebekah
  • He told Rachel that he was Rebekah’s son, a relative of her father, and she ran and told her father.

    Genesis 29:12

    • רִבְקָ֖הrivkahproper noun (a name)tagged: Rebekah
  • Now Deborah, Rebekah’s nurse, died and was buried under the oak below Bethel. So Jacob named it Allon-bachuth.

    Genesis 35:8

    • רִבְקָ֔הrivkahproper noun (a name)tagged: Rebekah
  • There Abraham and his wife Sarah are buried, there Isaac and his wife Rebekah are buried, and there I buried Leah.

    Genesis 49:31

    • רִבְקָ֣הrivkahproper noun (a name)tagged: Rebekah

The letters

Where it leads

How the numbers are counted

Every count on this page comes from STEP Bible's tagged Hebrew and Greek text, the same text the ledger prints. A use is counted once each time the tagging marks a word with this key.

Spellings are counted as the Greek text spells them, with the sentence's own punctuation taken off the word first, so a form that ends a clause is not counted as a second spelling.

The words it stands beside are the nouns, verbs and adjectives immediately before or after it, counted in every verse where the word stands. The article, the conjunctions and the prepositions are left out, because they stand beside every word.

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Meaning and senses: STEP Bible TBESH gloss (Tyndale House, CC BY 4.0).

Dictionary key: Strong's Exhaustive Concordance of the Bible (1890, public domain). English verse text: Berean Standard Bible (public domain, 2023).

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