People of the Bible

Rebekah

1875 BC –

Family

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A dot is a moment; a bar is something that lasted, drawn to its length.

Isaac Marries Rebekah · 1855 BC
Birth of Jacob and Esau · 1835 BC

Easton’s Bible Dictionary

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 M. G. Easton, Illustrated Bible Dictionary (1893), in the public domain.

Named in 29 verses

Genesis: 22:23, 24:15, 24:29, 24:30, 24:45, 24:51, 24:53, 24:58, 24:59, 24:60, 24:61, 24:64, 24:67, 25:20, 25:21, 25:28, 26:7, 26:8, 26:35, 27:5, 27:6, 27:11, 27:15, 27:42, 27:46, 28:5, 29:12, 35:8, 49:31

The family, dates and events on this page come from Theographic, a knowledge graph of the Bible by Robert Rouse, used and shared under CC BY-SA 4.0. It is a work in progress, and its dates follow one reconstruction of biblical chronology among several. The dictionary article above is separately in the public domain.