Rebekah

3 definitions found

From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  Rebekah
       n : (Old Testament) wife of Isaac and mother of Jacob and Esau
           [syn: {Rebecca}]

From Easton's 1897 Bible Dictionary [easton]:



  Rebekah
     a noose, the daughter of Bethuel, and the wife of Isaac (Gen.
     22:23; 24:67). The circumstances under which Abraham's "steward"
     found her at the "city of Nahor," in Padan-aram, are narrated in
     Gen. 24-27. "She can hardly be regarded as an amiable woman.
     When we first see her she is ready to leave her father's house
     for ever at an hour's notice; and her future life showed not
     only a full share of her brother Laban's duplicity, but the
     grave fault of partiality in her relations to her children, and
     a strong will, which soon controlled the gentler nature of her
     husband." The time and circumstances of her death are not
     recorded, but it is said that she was buried in the cave of
     Machpelah (Gen. 49:31).
     

From Hitchcock's Bible Names Dictionary (late 1800's) [hitchcock]:

  Rebekah, fat; fattened; a quarrel appeased