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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), , 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.

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 29:6 - So he said to them, “Is he well?” And they said, “He is well. And look, his daughter Rachel is coming with the sheep.”
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 29:9 - Now while he was still speaking with them, Rachel came with her father’s sheep, for she was a shepherdess.
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 29:10 - And it came to pass, when Jacob saw Rachel the daughter of Laban his mother’s brother, and the sheep of Laban his mother’s brother, that Jacob went near and rolled the stone from the well’s mouth, and watered the flock of Laban his mother’s brother.
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 29:11 - Then Jacob kissed Rachel, and lifted up his voice and wept.
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 29:12 - And Jacob told Rachel that he was her father’s relative and that he was Rebekah’s son. So she ran and told her father.
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 29:16 - Now Laban had two daughters: the name of the elder was Leah, and the name of the younger was Rachel.
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 29:17 - Leah’s eyes were delicate, but Rachel was beautiful of form and appearance.
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 29:18 - Now Jacob loved Rachel; so he said, “I will serve you seven years for Rachel your younger daughter.”
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 29:20 - So Jacob served seven years for Rachel, and they seemed only a few days to him because of the love he had for her.
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 29:25 - So it came to pass in the morning, that behold, it was Leah. And he said to Laban, “What is this you have done to me? Was it not for Rachel that I served you? Why then have you deceived me?”
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 29:28 - Then Jacob did so and fulfilled her week. So he gave him his daughter Rachel as wife also.
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 29:29 - And Laban gave his maid Bilhah to his daughter Rachel as a maid.
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 29:30 - Then Jacob also went in to Rachel, and he also loved Rachel more than Leah. And he served with Laban still another seven years.
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 29:31 - When the LORD saw that Leah was unloved, He opened her womb; but Rachel was barren.
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 30:1 - Now when Rachel saw that she bore Jacob no children, Rachel envied her sister, and said to Jacob, “Give me children, or else I die!”
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 30:2 - And Jacob’s anger was aroused against Rachel, and he said, “Am I in the place of God, who has withheld from you the fruit of the womb?”
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 30:3 - So she said, “Here is my maid Bilhah; go in to her, and she will bear a child on my knees, that I also may have children by her.”
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 30:5 - And Bilhah conceived and bore Jacob a son.
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 30:6 - Then Rachel said, “God has judged my case; and He has also heard my voice and given me a son.” Therefore she called his name Dan.[fn]
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 30:7 - And Rachel’s maid Bilhah conceived again and bore Jacob a second son.
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 30:8 - Then Rachel said, “With great wrestlings I have wrestled with my sister, and indeed I have prevailed.” So she called his name Naphtali.[fn]
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 30:14 - Now Reuben went in the days of wheat harvest and found mandrakes in the field, and brought them to his mother Leah. Then Rachel said to Leah, “Please give me some of your son’s mandrakes.”
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 30:15 - But she said to her, “Is it a small matter that you have taken away my husband? Would you take away my son’s mandrakes also?” And Rachel said, “Therefore he will lie with you tonight for your son’s mandrakes.”
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 30:22 - Then God remembered Rachel, and God listened to her and opened her womb.
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 30:23 - And she conceived and bore a son, and said, “God has taken away my reproach.”
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 30:25 - And it came to pass, when Rachel had borne Joseph, that Jacob said to Laban, “Send me away, that I may go to my own place and to my country.
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 31:4 - So Jacob sent and called Rachel and Leah to the field, to his flock,
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 31:14 - Then Rachel and Leah answered and said to him, “Is there still any portion or inheritance for us in our father’s house?
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 31:19 - Now Laban had gone to shear his sheep, and Rachel had stolen the household idols that were her father’s.
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 31:32 - “With whomever you find your gods, do not let him live. In the presence of our brethren, identify what I have of yours and take it with you.” For Jacob did not know that Rachel had stolen them.
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 31:33 - And Laban went into Jacob’s tent, into Leah’s tent, and into the two maids’ tents, but he did not find them. Then he went out of Leah’s tent and entered Rachel’s tent.
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 31:34 - Now Rachel had taken the household idols, put them in the camel’s saddle, and sat on them. And Laban searched all about the tent but did not find them.
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 33:1 - Now Jacob lifted his eyes and looked, and there, Esau was coming, and with him were four hundred men. So he divided the children among Leah, Rachel, and the two maidservants.
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 33:2 - And he put the maidservants and their children in front, Leah and her children behind, and Rachel and Joseph last.
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 33:7 - And Leah also came near with her children, and they bowed down. Afterward Joseph and Rachel came near, and they bowed down.
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 35:16 - Then they journeyed from Bethel. And when there was but a little distance to go to Ephrath, Rachel labored in childbirth, and she had hard labor.
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 35:19 - So Rachel died and was buried on the way to Ephrath (that is, Bethlehem).
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 35:20 - And Jacob set a pillar on her grave, which is the pillar of Rachel’s grave to this day.
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 35:24 - the sons of Rachel were Joseph and Benjamin;
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 35:25 - the sons of Bilhah, Rachel’s maidservant, were Dan and Naphtali;
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 46:19 - The sons of Rachel, Jacob’s wife, were Joseph and Benjamin.
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 46:22 - These were the sons of Rachel, who were born to Jacob: fourteen persons in all.
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 46:25 - These were the sons of Bilhah, whom Laban gave to Rachel his daughter, and she bore these to Jacob: seven persons in all.
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 48:7 - “But as for me, when I came from Padan, Rachel died beside me in the land of Canaan on the way, when there was but a little distance to go to Ephrath; and I buried her there on the way to Ephrath (that is, Bethlehem).”
Unchecked Copy BoxRth 4:11 - And all the people who were at the gate, and the elders, said, “We are witnesses. The LORD make the woman who is coming to your house like Rachel and Leah, the two who built the house of Israel; and may you prosper in Ephrathah and be famous in Bethlehem.
Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 10:2 - “When you have departed from me today, you will find two men by Rachel’s tomb in the territory of Benjamin at Zelzah; and they will say to you, ‘The donkeys which you went to look for have been found. And now your father has ceased caring about the donkeys and is worrying about you, saying, “What shall I do about my son?” ’
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 31:15 - Thus says the LORD:

“A voice was heard in Ramah,
Lamentation and bitter weeping,
Rachel weeping for her children,
Refusing to be comforted for her children,
Because they are no more.”
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