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 39Old Testament books
- 19spellings
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.
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.
The words it stands beside
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.
- 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.
- רִבְקָ֣הrivkahproper noun (a name)tagged: Rebekah
Now Rebekah had a brother named Laban, and he rushed out to the man at the spring.
- 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.
- 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.’
- 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.”
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.”
- 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.
- 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
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- רִבְקָ֥הrivkahproper noun (a name)tagged: Rebekah
Because Isaac had a taste for wild game, he loved Esau; but Rebekah loved Jacob.
- 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.”
- 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.
- רִבְקָ֥הrivkahproper noun (a name)tagged: Rebekah
And they brought grief to Isaac and Rebekah.
- 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,
- 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,
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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?”
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- רִבְקָ֣הrivkahproper noun (a name)tagged: Rebekah
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.
