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Hebrew proper noun (a person) · H7354

רָחֵל

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Rachel

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

Concordance spelling: Râchêl

Word page · Part of the concordance, one page for every word of the Hebrew and Greek text. Strong's H7354is this word's number in James Strong's 1890 index of the King James Bible.

  • 4 of 39
    Old Testament books
  • 22
    spellings

The definition in full

Strong's key (1890) · H7354

Rachel, a wife of Jacob

The King James renders it: Rachel.

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

Rachel is rendered "Rachel". It stands 47 times in the Hebrew text, across four books.

  • Forty-four of the uses stand in Genesis, more than in any other book.
  • Its first use in canonical order opens the ledger below.Genesis 29:6“Is he well?” Jacob inquired. “Yes,” they answered, “and here comes his daughter Rachel with his sheep.”
  • The Greek text spells it twenty-two different ways.

The first use

“Is he well?” Jacob inquired. “Yes,” they answered, “and here comes his daughter Rachel with his sheep.”

Genesis 29:6רָחֵ֣ל

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

Where the word stands

Forty-four of the word's forty-seven uses are in Genesis.

The other 35 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

  • Rachel32
  • and Rachel5
  • to Rachel5
  • for Rachel3
  • like Rachel1
  • on Rachel1

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.

רָחֵלracheleweUses4
רָחֵקracheqremovedUses1

Other numbers on this spelling

Strong gave these words the same spelling and different numbers, so the site counts and defines them apart.

The words it stands beside

All 47, in canonical order

Every use, in order

Every use, grouped by book, with its verse.

22 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

  • רָחֵ֖ל7
  • רָחֵ֔ל6
  • רָחֵ֗ל4
  • רָחֵ֑ל4
  • רָחֵל֙4
  • לְרָחֵ֣ל3
  • וְרָחֵ֖ל2
  • רָחֵ֥ל2
  • רָחֵֽל׃2
  • בְרָחֵל֙1
  • בְּרָחֵ֥ל1
  • בְּרָחֵ֖ל1

and 10 more spellings in the ledger below.

The grammar of each form

  • proper noun (a name)32HNpf
  • preposition + proper noun (a name)10HR/Npf
  • conjunction (“and”) + proper noun (a name)5HC/Npf

Genesis

forty-four uses
  • “Is he well?” Jacob inquired. “Yes,” they answered, “and here comes his daughter Rachel with his sheep.”

    Genesis 29:6

    • רָחֵ֣לrachelproper noun (a name)tagged: Rachel
  • While he was still speaking with them, Rachel arrived with her father’s sheep, for she was a shepherdess.

    Genesis 29:9

    • וְרָחֵ֣ל׀verachelconjunction (“and”) + proper noun (a name)tagged: and Rachel
  • As soon as Jacob saw Rachel, the daughter of his mother’s brother Laban, with Laban’s sheep, he went up and rolled the stone away from the mouth of the well and watered his uncle’s sheep.

    Genesis 29:10

    • רָחֵ֗לrachelproper noun (a name)tagged: Rachel
  • Then Jacob kissed Rachel and wept aloud.

    Genesis 29:11

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

    Genesis 29:12

    • לְרָחֵ֗לlerachelpreposition + proper noun (a name)tagged: to Rachel
  • Now Laban had two daughters; the older was named Leah, and the younger was named Rachel.

    Genesis 29:16

    • רָחֵֽל׃rachelproper noun (a name)tagged: Rachel
  • Leah had weak eyes, but Rachel was shapely and beautiful.

    Genesis 29:17

    • וְרָחֵל֙verachelconjunction (“and”) + proper noun (a name)tagged: and Rachel
  • Since Jacob loved Rachel, he answered, “I will serve you seven years for your younger daughter Rachel.”

    Genesis 29:18

    • רָחֵ֑לrachelproper noun (a name)tagged: Rachel
    • בְּרָחֵ֥לberachelpreposition + proper noun (a name)tagged: for Rachel
  • So Jacob served seven years for Rachel, yet it seemed but a few days because of his love for her.

    Genesis 29:20

    • בְּרָחֵ֖לberachelpreposition + proper noun (a name)tagged: for Rachel
  • When morning came, there was Leah! “What have you done to me?” Jacob said to Laban. “Wasn’t it for Rachel that I served you? Why have you deceived me?”

    Genesis 29:25

    • בְרָחֵל֙verachelpreposition + proper noun (a name)tagged: for Rachel
  • And Jacob did just that. He finished the week’s celebration, and Laban gave him his daughter Rachel as his wife.

    Genesis 29:28

    • רָחֵ֥לrachelproper noun (a name)tagged: Rachel
  • Laban also gave his servant girl Bilhah to his daughter Rachel as her maidservant.

    Genesis 29:29

    • לְרָחֵ֣לlerachelpreposition + proper noun (a name)tagged: to Rachel
  • Jacob slept with Rachel as well, and indeed, he loved Rachel more than Leah. So he worked for Laban another seven years.

    Genesis 29:30

    • רָחֵ֔לrachelproper noun (a name)tagged: Rachel
    • רָחֵ֖לrachelproper noun (a name)tagged: Rachel
  • When the LORD saw that Leah was unloved, He opened her womb; but Rachel was barren.

    Genesis 29:31

    • וְרָחֵ֖לverachelconjunction (“and”) + proper noun (a name)tagged: and Rachel
  • When Rachel saw that she was not bearing any children for Jacob, she envied her sister. “Give me children, or I will die!” she said to Jacob.

    Genesis 30:1

    • רָחֵ֗לrachelproper noun (a name)tagged: Rachel
    • רָחֵ֖לrachelproper noun (a name)tagged: Rachel
  • Jacob became angry with Rachel and said, “Am I in the place of God, who has withheld children from you?”

    Genesis 30:2

    • בְּרָחֵ֑לberachelpreposition + proper noun (a name)tagged: on Rachel
  • Then Rachel said, “God has vindicated me; He has heard my plea and given me a son.” So she named him Dan.

    Genesis 30:6

    • רָחֵל֙rachelproper noun (a name)tagged: Rachel
  • And Rachel’s servant Bilhah conceived again and bore Jacob a second son.

    Genesis 30:7

    • רָחֵ֑לrachelproper noun (a name)tagged: Rachel
  • Then Rachel said, “In my great struggles, I have wrestled with my sister and won.” So she named him Naphtali.

    Genesis 30:8

    • רָחֵ֗לrachelproper noun (a name)tagged: Rachel
  • Now during the wheat harvest, Reuben went out and found some mandrakes in the field. When he brought them to his mother, Rachel begged Leah, “Please give me some of your son’s mandrakes.”

    Genesis 30:14

    • רָחֵל֙rachelproper noun (a name)tagged: Rachel
  • But Leah replied, “Is it not enough that you have taken away my husband? Now you want to take my son’s mandrakes as well?” “Very well,” said Rachel, “he may sleep with you tonight in exchange for your son’s mandrakes.”

    Genesis 30:15

    • רָחֵ֗לrachelproper noun (a name)tagged: Rachel
  • Then God remembered Rachel. He listened to her and opened her womb,

    Genesis 30:22

    • רָחֵ֑לrachelproper noun (a name)tagged: Rachel
  • Now after Rachel had given birth to Joseph, Jacob said to Laban, “Send me on my way so I can return to my homeland.

    Genesis 30:25

    • רָחֵ֖לrachelproper noun (a name)tagged: Rachel
  • So Jacob sent word and called Rachel and Leah to the field where his flocks were,

    Genesis 31:4

    • לְרָחֵ֣לlerachelpreposition + proper noun (a name)tagged: to Rachel
  • And Rachel and Leah replied, “Do we have any portion or inheritance left in our father’s house?

    Genesis 31:14

    • רָחֵל֙rachelproper noun (a name)tagged: Rachel
  • Now while Laban was out shearing his sheep, Rachel stole her father’s household idols.

    Genesis 31:19

    • רָחֵ֔לrachelproper noun (a name)tagged: Rachel
  • If you find your gods with anyone here, he shall not live! In the presence of our relatives, see for yourself if anything is yours, and take it back.” For Jacob did not know that Rachel had stolen the idols.

    Genesis 31:32

    • רָחֵ֖לrachelproper noun (a name)tagged: Rachel
  • So Laban went into Jacob’s tent, then Leah’s tent, and then the tents of the two maidservants, but he found nothing. Then he left Leah’s tent and entered Rachel’s tent.

    Genesis 31:33

    • רָחֵֽל׃rachelproper noun (a name)tagged: Rachel
  • Now Rachel had taken Laban’s household idols, put them in the saddlebag of her camel, and was sitting on them. And Laban searched everything in the tent but found nothing.

    Genesis 31:34

    • וְרָחֵ֞לverachelconjunction (“and”) + proper noun (a name)tagged: and Rachel
  • Now Jacob looked up and saw Esau coming toward him with four hundred men. So he divided the children among Leah, Rachel, and the two maidservants.

    Genesis 33:1

    • רָחֵ֔לrachelproper noun (a name)tagged: Rachel
  • He put the maidservants and their children in front, Leah and her children next, and Rachel and Joseph at the rear.

    Genesis 33:2

    • רָחֵ֥לrachelproper noun (a name)tagged: Rachel
  • Leah and her children also approached and bowed down, and then Joseph and Rachel approached and bowed down.

    Genesis 33:7

    • וְרָחֵ֖לverachelconjunction (“and”) + proper noun (a name)tagged: and Rachel
  • Later, they set out from Bethel, and while they were still some distance from Ephrath, Rachel began to give birth, and her labor was difficult.

    Genesis 35:16

    • רָחֵ֖לrachelproper noun (a name)tagged: Rachel
  • So Rachel died and was buried on the way to Ephrath (that is, Bethlehem).

    Genesis 35:19

    • רָחֵ֑לrachelproper noun (a name)tagged: Rachel
  • Jacob set up a pillar on her grave; it marks Rachel’s tomb to this day.

    Genesis 35:20

    • רָחֵ֖לrachelproper noun (a name)tagged: Rachel
  • The sons of Rachel were Joseph and Benjamin.

    Genesis 35:24

    • רָחֵ֔לrachelproper noun (a name)tagged: Rachel
  • The sons of Rachel’s maidservant Bilhah were Dan and Naphtali.

    Genesis 35:25

    • רָחֵ֔לrachelproper noun (a name)tagged: Rachel
  • The sons of Jacob’s wife Rachel: Joseph and Benjamin.

    Genesis 46:19

    • רָחֵל֙rachelproper noun (a name)tagged: Rachel
  • These are the sons of Rachel born to Jacob—fourteen in all.

    Genesis 46:22

    • רָחֵ֔לrachelproper noun (a name)tagged: Rachel
  • These are the sons of Jacob born to Bilhah, whom Laban gave to his daughter Rachel—seven in all.

    Genesis 46:25

    • לְרָחֵ֣לlerachelpreposition + proper noun (a name)tagged: to Rachel
  • Now as for me, when I was returning from Paddan, to my sorrow Rachel died along the way in the land of Canaan, some distance from Ephrath. So I buried her there beside the road to Ephrath” (that is, Bethlehem).

    Genesis 48:7

    • רָחֵ֜לrachelproper noun (a name)tagged: Rachel

Ruth

one use
  • “We are witnesses,” said the elders and all the people at the gate. “May the LORD make the woman entering your home like Rachel and Leah, who together built up the house of Israel. May you be prosperous in Ephrathah and famous in Bethlehem.

    Ruth 4:11

    • כְּרָחֵ֤ל׀kerachelpreposition + proper noun (a name)tagged: like Rachel

1 Samuel

one use
  • When you leave me today, you will find two men at Rachel’s tomb in Zelzah on the border of Benjamin. They will say to you, ‘The donkeys you seek have been found, and now your father has stopped worrying about the donkeys and started worrying about you, asking, “What should I do about my son?”’

    1 Samuel 10:2

    • רָחֵ֛לrachelproper noun (a name)tagged: Rachel

Jeremiah

one use
  • This is what the LORD says: “A voice is heard in Ramah, mourning and great weeping, Rachel weeping for her children, and refusing to be comforted, because they are no more.”

    Jeremiah 31:15

    • רָחֵ֖לrachelproper noun (a name)tagged: Rachel

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.

The family is read from the lexicon by the stem the two words share, with the accents off, and a person or a place named on the stem is left out.

Hebrew and Greek text, word tagging and grammar: STEP Bible (www.STEPBible.org), Tyndale House, CC BY 4.0. Their grammar codes are written out in English here and shown as tagged beside each one.

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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