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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 Box Gen 29:6

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 29:6 - “Is he doing well?” Jacob asked.
“Yes, he’s well,” they answered. “Look, here comes his daughter Rachel with the flock now.”

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 29:9

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 29:9 - Jacob was still talking with them when Rachel arrived with her father’s flock, for she was a shepherd.

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 29:10

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 29:10 - And because Rachel was his cousin—the daughter of Laban, his mother’s brother—and because the sheep and goats belonged to his uncle Laban, Jacob went over to the well and moved the stone from its mouth and watered his uncle’s flock.

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 29:11

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 29:11 - Then Jacob kissed Rachel, and he wept aloud.

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 29:12

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 29:12 - He explained to Rachel that he was her cousin on her father’s side—the son of her aunt Rebekah. So Rachel quickly ran and told her father, Laban.

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 29:16

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

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 29:17

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 29:17 - There was no sparkle in Leah’s eyes,[fn] but Rachel had a beautiful figure and a lovely face.

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 29:18

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 29:18 - Since Jacob was in love with Rachel, he told her father, “I’ll work for you for seven years if you’ll give me Rachel, your younger daughter, as my wife.”

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 29:20

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 29:20 - So Jacob worked seven years to pay for Rachel. But his love for her was so strong that it seemed to him but a few days.

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 29:25

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 29:25 - But when Jacob woke up in the morning—it was Leah! “What have you done to me?” Jacob raged at Laban. “I worked seven years for Rachel! Why have you tricked me?”

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 29:28

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 29:28 - So Jacob agreed to work seven more years. A week after Jacob had married Leah, Laban gave him Rachel, too.

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 29:29

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 29:29 - (Laban gave Rachel a servant, Bilhah, to be her maid.)

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 29:30

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 29:30 - So Jacob slept with Rachel, too, and he loved her much more than Leah. He then stayed and worked for Laban the additional seven 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 have children, but Rachel could not conceive.

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 30:1

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 30:1 - When Rachel saw that she wasn’t having any children for Jacob, she became jealous of her sister. She pleaded with Jacob, “Give me children, or I’ll die!”

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 30:2

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 30:2 - Then Jacob became furious with Rachel. “Am I God?” he asked. “He’s the one who has kept you from having children!”

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 30:3

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 30:3 - Then Rachel told him, “Take my maid, Bilhah, and sleep with her. She will bear children for me,[fn] and through her I can have a family, too.”

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 30:5

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 30:5 - Bilhah became pregnant and presented him with a son.

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 30:6

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 30:6 - Rachel named him Dan,[fn] for she said, “God has vindicated me! He has heard my request and given me a son.”

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 30:7

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 30:7 - Then Bilhah became pregnant again and gave Jacob a second son.

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 30:8

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 30:8 - Rachel named him Naphtali,[fn] for she said, “I have struggled hard with my sister, and I’m winning!”

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 30:14

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 30:14 - One day during the wheat harvest, Reuben found some mandrakes growing in a field and brought them to his mother, Leah. Rachel begged Leah, “Please 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 angrily replied, “Wasn’t it enough that you stole my husband? Now will you steal my son’s mandrakes, too?”
Rachel answered, “I will let Jacob sleep with you tonight if you give me some of the mandrakes.”

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 30:22

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 30:22 - Then God remembered Rachel’s plight and answered her prayers by enabling her to have children.

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 30:23

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 30:23 - She became pregnant and gave birth to a son. “God has removed my disgrace,” she said.

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 30:25

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 30:25 - Soon after Rachel had given birth to Joseph, Jacob said to Laban, “Please release me so 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 called Rachel and Leah out to the field where he was watching his flock.

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 31:14

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 31:14 - Rachel and Leah responded, “That’s fine with us! We won’t inherit any of our father’s wealth anyway.

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 31:19

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 31:19 - At the time they left, Laban was some distance away, shearing his sheep. Rachel stole her father’s household idols and took them with her.

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 31:32

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 31:32 - But as for your gods, see if you can find them, and let the person who has taken them die! And if you find anything else that belongs to you, identify it before all these relatives of ours, and I will give it back!” But Jacob did not know that Rachel had stolen the household idols.

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 31:33

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 31:33 - Laban went first into Jacob’s tent to search there, then into Leah’s, and then the tents of the two servant wives—but he found nothing. Finally, he went into Rachel’s tent.

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 31:34

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 31:34 - But Rachel had taken the household idols and hidden them in her camel saddle, and now she was sitting on them. When Laban had thoroughly searched her tent without finding them,

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 33:1

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 33:1 - Then Jacob looked up and saw Esau coming with his 400 men. So he divided the children among Leah, Rachel, and his two servant wives.

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 33:2

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 33:2 - He put the servant wives and their children at the front, Leah and her children next, and Rachel and Joseph last.

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 33:7

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 33:7 - Next came Leah with her children, and they bowed before him. Finally, Joseph and Rachel came forward and bowed before him.

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 35:16

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 35:16 - Leaving Bethel, Jacob and his clan moved on toward Ephrath. But Rachel went into labor while they were still some distance away. Her labor pains were intense.

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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 stone monument over Rachel’s grave, and it can be seen there 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 Jacob’s wife Rachel were Joseph and Benjamin.

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 46:22

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 46:22 - These were the sons of Rachel and Jacob. The number of Jacob’s descendants through Rachel was fourteen.

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 46:25

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 46:25 - These were the sons of Bilhah, the servant given to Rachel by her father, Laban. The number of Jacob’s descendants through Bilhah was seven.

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 48:7

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 48:7 - “Long ago, as I was returning from Paddan-aram, Rachel died in the land of Canaan. We were still on the way, some distance from Ephrath (that is, Bethlehem). So with great sorrow I buried her there beside the road to Ephrath.”

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Unchecked Copy Box Rth 4:11

Unchecked Copy BoxRth 4:11 - Then the elders and all the people standing in the gate replied, “We are witnesses! May the LORD make this woman who is coming into your home like Rachel and Leah, from whom all the nation of Israel descended! May you prosper in Ephrathah and be 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 see two men beside Rachel’s tomb at Zelzah, on the border of Benjamin. They will tell you that the donkeys have been found and that your father has stopped worrying about them and is now worried about you. He is asking, ‘Have you seen my son?’

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Unchecked Copy Box Jer 31:15

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 31:15 - This is what the LORD says:
“A cry is heard in Ramah—
deep anguish and bitter weeping.
Rachel weeps for her children,
refusing to be comforted—
for her children are gone.”
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