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Lexicon :: Strong's G4478 - rachēl

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Ῥαχήλ
Transliteration
rachēl (Key)
Pronunciation
hrakh-ale'
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Part of Speech
proper feminine noun
Root Word (Etymology)
Of Hebrew origin רָחֵל (H7354)
mGNT
1x in 1 unique form(s) TR
1x in 1 unique form(s) LXX
50x in 1 unique form(s)
Strong’s Definitions

Ῥαχήλ Rhachḗl, hrakh-ale'; of Hebrew origin (H7354); Rachel, the wife of Jacob:—Rachel.

KJV Translation Count — Total: 1x

The KJV translates Strong's G4478 in the following manner: Rachel (1x).

KJV Translation Count — Total: 1x
The KJV translates Strong's G4478 in the following manner: Rachel (1x).

  1. Rachel = "ewe or sheep"

    1. the wife of Jacob

Strong’s Definitions [?](Strong’s Definitions Legend)
Ῥαχήλ Rhachḗl, hrakh-ale'; of Hebrew origin (H7354); Rachel, the wife of Jacob:—Rachel.
STRONGS G4478:
Ραχηλ (רָחֵל, a ewe or a sheep), ἡ, Rachel (cf. B. D. under the word), the wife of the patriarch Jacob: Matthew 2:18 (from Jeremiah 38:15 (Jer. 31:15)).
THAYER’S GREEK LEXICON, Electronic Database.
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BLB Scripture Index of Thayer's

Jeremiah
31:15; 38:15
Matthew
2:18

Word / Phrase / Strong's Search

Strong's Number G4478 matches the Greek Ῥαχήλ (rachēl),
which occurs 50 times in 47 verses in the LXX Greek.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 29:6 - "Is he well?" Jacob asked. They replied, "He is well. Now look, here comes his daughter Rachel with the sheep."

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 29:9

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 29:9 - While he was still speaking with them, Rachel arrived with her father's sheep, for she was tending them.

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 29:10

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 29:10 - When Jacob saw Rachel, the daughter of his uncle Laban, and the sheep of his uncle Laban, he went over and rolled the stone off the mouth of the well and watered the sheep of his uncle Laban.

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 29:11

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 29:11 - Then Jacob kissed Rachel and began to weep loudly.

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 29:12

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 29:12 - When Jacob explained to Rachel that he was a relative of her father and the son of Rebekah, she ran and told her father.

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 29:16

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 29:16 - (Now Laban had two daughters; the older one was named Leah, and the younger one Rachel.

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 29:17

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 29:17 - Leah's eyes were tender, but Rachel had a lovely figure and beautiful appearance.)

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 29:18

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 29:18 - Since Jacob had fallen in love with Rachel, he said, "I'll serve you seven years in exchange for your younger daughter Rachel."

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 29:20

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 29:20 - So Jacob worked for seven years to acquire Rachel. But they seemed like only a few days to him because his love for her was so great.

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 29:25

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 29:25 - In the morning Jacob discovered it was Leah! So Jacob said to Laban, "What in the world have you done to me! Didn't I work for you in exchange for Rachel? Why have you tricked me?"

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 29:28

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 29:28 - Jacob did as Laban said. When Jacob completed Leah's bridal week, Laban gave him his daughter Rachel to be his wife.

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 29:29

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 29:29 - (Laban gave his female servant Bilhah to his daughter Rachel to be her servant.)

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 29:30

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 29:30 - Jacob had marital relations with Rachel as well. He loved Rachel more than Leah, so he worked for Laban for seven more years.

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 29:31

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 29:31 - When the LORD saw that Leah was unloved, he enabled her to become pregnant while Rachel remained childless.

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 30:1

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 30:1 - When Rachel saw that she could not give Jacob children, she became jealous of her sister. She said to Jacob, "Give me children or I'll die!"

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 30:2

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 30:2 - Jacob became furious with Rachel and exclaimed, "Am I in the place of God, who has kept you from having children?"

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 30:3

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 30:3 - She replied, "Here is my servant Bilhah! Have sexual relations with her so that she can bear children for me and I can have a family through her."

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 30:5

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 30:5 - Bilhah became pregnant and gave Jacob a son.

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 30:6

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 30:6 - Then Rachel said, "God has vindicated me. He has responded to my prayer and given me a son." That is why she named him Dan.

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 30:7

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 30:7 - Bilhah, Rachel's servant, became pregnant again and gave Jacob another son.

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 30:8

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 30:8 - Then Rachel said, "I have fought a desperate struggle with my sister, but I have won." So she named him Naphtali.

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 30:14

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 30:14 - At the time of the wheat harvest Reuben went out and found some mandrake plants in a field and brought them to his mother Leah. Rachel said to Leah, "Give me some of your son's mandrakes."

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 30:15

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 30:15 - But Leah replied, "Wasn't it enough that you've taken away my husband? Would you take away my son's mandrakes too?" "All right," Rachel said, "he may sleep with you tonight in exchange for your son's mandrakes."

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 30:22

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 30:22 - Then God took note of Rachel. He paid attention to her and enabled her to become pregnant.

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 30:23

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 30:23 - She became pregnant and gave birth to a son. Then she said, "God has taken away my shame."

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 30:25

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 30:25 - After Rachel had given birth to Joseph, Jacob said to Laban, "Send me on my way so that I can go home to my own country.

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 31:4

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 31:4 - So Jacob sent a message for Rachel and Leah to come to the field where his flocks were.

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 31:14

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 31:14 - Then Rachel and Leah replied to him, "Do we still have any portion or inheritance in our father's house?

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 31:19

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 31:19 - While Laban had gone to shear his sheep, Rachel stole the household idols that belonged to her father.

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 31:32

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 31:32 - Whoever has taken your gods will be put to death! In the presence of our relatives identify whatever is yours and take it." (Now Jacob did not know that Rachel had stolen them.)

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 31:33

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 31:33 - So Laban entered Jacob's tent, and Leah's tent, and the tent of the two female servants, but he did not find the idols. Then he left Leah's tent and entered Rachel's.

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 31:34

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 31:34 - (Now Rachel had taken the idols and put them inside her camel's saddle and sat on them.) Laban searched the whole tent, but did not find them.

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 33:1

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 33:1 - Jacob looked up and saw that Esau was coming along with four hundred men. So he divided the children among Leah, Rachel, and the two female servants.

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 33:2

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 33:2 - He put the servants and their children in front, with Leah and her children behind them, and Rachel and Joseph behind them.

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 33:7

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 33:7 - Then Leah came forward with her children and they bowed down. Finally Joseph and Rachel came forward and bowed down.

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 35:16

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 35:16 - They traveled on from Bethel, and when Ephrath was still some distance away, Rachel went into labor - and her labor was hard.

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 35:19

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 35:19 - So Rachel died and was buried on the way to Ephrath (that is, Bethlehem).

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 35:20

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 35:20 - Jacob set up a marker over her grave; it is the Marker of Rachel's Grave to this day.

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 35:24

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 35:24 - The sons of Rachel were Joseph and Benjamin.

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 35:25

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 35:25 - The sons of Bilhah, Rachel's servant, were Dan and Naphtali.

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 46:19

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 46:19 - The sons of Rachel the wife of Jacob: Joseph and Benjamin.

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 46:22

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 46:22 - These were the sons of Rachel who were born to Jacob, fourteen in all.

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 46:25

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 46:25 - These were the sons of Bilhah, whom Laban gave to Rachel his daughter. She bore these to Jacob, seven in all.

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 48:7

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 48:7 - But as for me, when I was returning from Paddan, Rachel died - to my sorrow - in the land of Canaan. It happened along the way, some distance from Ephrath. So I buried her there on the way to Ephrath" (that is, Bethlehem).

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Unchecked Copy Box Rth 4:11

Unchecked Copy BoxRth 4:11 - All the people who were at the gate and the elders replied, "We are witnesses. May the LORD make the woman who is entering your home like Rachel and Leah, both of whom built up the house of Israel! May you prosper in Ephrathah and become famous in Bethlehem.

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Sa 10:2

Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 10:2 - When you leave me today, you will find two men near Rachel's tomb at Zelzah on Benjamin's border. They will say to you, 'The donkeys you have gone looking for have been found. Your father is no longer concerned about the donkeys but has become anxious about you two! He is asking, "What should I do about my son?"'

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Unchecked Copy Box Jer 31:15

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 31:15 - The LORD says, "A sound is heard in Ramah, a sound of crying in bitter grief. It is the sound of Rachel weeping for her children and refusing to be comforted, because her children are gone."
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