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Lexicon :: Strong's H7259 - riḇqâ

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רִבְקָה
Transliteration
riḇqâ
Pronunciation
rib-kaw'
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Part of Speech
proper feminine noun
Root Word (Etymology)
From an unused root probably meaning to clog by tying up the fetlock
Strong’s Definitions

רִבְקָה Ribqâh, rib-kaw'; from an unused root probably meaning to clog by tying up the fetlock; fettering (by beauty); Ribkah, the wife of Isaac:—Rebekah.

KJV Translation Count — Total: 30x

The KJV translates Strong's H7259 in the following manner: Rebekah (30x).

KJV Translation Count — Total: 30x
The KJV translates Strong's H7259 in the following manner: Rebekah (30x).

  1. Rebekah = "ensnarer"

    1. daughter of Bethuel, sister of Laban, wife of Isaac, and mother of Esau and Jacob

Strong’s Definitions [?](Strong’s Definitions Legend)
רִבְקָה Ribqâh, rib-kaw'; from an unused root probably meaning to clog by tying up the fetlock; fettering (by beauty); Ribkah, the wife of Isaac:—Rebekah.
STRONGS H7259: Abbreviations
רִבְקָה 30 proper name, feminine Rebekah, daughter of Bethuel and wife of Isaac, Genesis 22:23; Genesis 24:15 + 24 times 24, 25, 26, 27; Genesis 28:5; Genesis 29:12; Genesis 35:8; Genesis 49:31; — Greek Version of the LXX Πεβεκκα,.
Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew and English Lexicon, Unabridged, Electronic Database.
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BLB Scripture Index of Brown-Driver-Briggs

Genesis

22:23; 24:15; 28:5; 29:12; 35:8; 49:31

H7259

Word / Phrase / Strong's Search

Strong's Number H7259 matches the Hebrew רִבְקָה (riḇqâ),
which occurs 30 times in 29 verses in the WLC Hebrew.

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 22:23

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 22:23 - (Bethuel became the father of Rebekah.) In addition to these eight sons from Milcah,

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 24:15

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 24:15 - Before he had finished praying, he saw a young woman named Rebekah coming out with her water jug on her shoulder. She was the daughter of Bethuel, who was the son of Abraham’s brother Nahor and his wife, Milcah.

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 24:29

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 24:29 - Now Rebekah had a brother named Laban, who ran out to meet the man at the spring.

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 24:30

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 24:30 - He had seen the nose-ring and the bracelets on his sister’s wrists, and had heard Rebekah tell what the man had said. So he rushed out to the spring, where the man was still standing beside his camels.

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 24:45

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 24:45 - “Before I had finished praying in my heart, I saw Rebekah coming out with her water jug on her shoulder. She went down to the spring and drew water. So I said to her, ‘Please give me a drink.’

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 24:51

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 24:51 - Here is Rebekah; take her and go. Yes, let her be the wife of your master’s son, as the LORD has directed.”

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 24:53

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 24:53 - Then he brought out silver and gold jewelry and clothing and presented them to Rebekah. He also gave expensive presents to her brother and mother.

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 24:58

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 24:58 - So they called Rebekah. “Are you willing to go with this man?” they asked her.
And she replied, “Yes, I will go.”

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 24:59

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 24:59 - So they said good-bye to Rebekah and sent her away with Abraham’s servant and his men. The woman who had been Rebekah’s childhood nurse went along with her.

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 24:60

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 24:60 - They gave her this blessing as she parted:
“Our sister, may you become
the mother of many millions!
May your descendants be strong
and conquer the cities of their enemies.”

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 24:61

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 24:61 - Then Rebekah and her servant girls mounted the camels and followed the man. So Abraham’s servant took Rebekah and went on his way.

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 24:64

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 24:64 - When Rebekah looked up and saw Isaac, she quickly dismounted from her camel.

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 24:67

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 24:67 - And Isaac brought Rebekah into his mother Sarah’s tent, and she became his wife. He loved her deeply, and she was a special comfort to him after the death of his mother.

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 25:20

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 25:20 - When Isaac was forty years old, he married Rebekah, the daughter of Bethuel the Aramean from Paddan-aram and the sister of Laban the Aramean.

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 25:21

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 25:21 - Isaac pleaded with the LORD on behalf of his wife, because she was unable to have children. The LORD answered Isaac’s prayer, and Rebekah became pregnant with twins.

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 25:28

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 25:28 - Isaac loved Esau because he enjoyed eating the wild game Esau brought home, but Rebekah loved Jacob.

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 26:7

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 26:7 - When the men who lived there asked Isaac about his wife, Rebekah, he said, “She is my sister.” He was afraid to say, “She is my wife.” He thought, “They will kill me to get her, because she is so beautiful.”

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 26:8

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 26:8 - But some time later, Abimelech, king of the Philistines, looked out his window and saw Isaac caressing Rebekah.

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 26:35

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 26:35 - But Esau’s wives made life miserable for Isaac and Rebekah.

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 27:5

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 27:5 - But Rebekah overheard what Isaac had said to his son Esau. So when Esau left to hunt for the wild game,

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 27:6

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 27:6 - she said to her son Jacob, “Listen. I overheard your father say to Esau,

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 27:11

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 27:11 - “But look,” Jacob replied to Rebekah, “my brother, Esau, is a hairy man, and my skin is smooth.

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 27:15

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 27:15 - Then she took Esau’s favorite clothes, which were there in the house, and gave them to her younger son, Jacob.

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 27:42

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 27:42 - But Rebekah heard about Esau’s plans. So she sent for Jacob and told him, “Listen, Esau is consoling himself by plotting to kill you.

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 27:46

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 27:46 - Then Rebekah said to Isaac, “I’m sick and tired of these local Hittite women! I would rather die than see Jacob marry one of them.”

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 28:5

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 28:5 - So Isaac sent Jacob away, and he went to Paddan-aram to stay with his uncle Laban, his mother’s brother, the son of Bethuel the Aramean.

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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 35:8

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 35:8 - Soon after this, Rebekah’s old nurse, Deborah, died. She was buried beneath the oak tree in the valley below Bethel. Ever since, the tree has been called Allon-bacuth (which means “oak of weeping”).

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 49:31

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 49:31 - There Abraham and his wife Sarah are buried. There Isaac and his wife, Rebekah, are buried. And there I buried Leah.
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