Hypertext Webster Gateway: "Rebekah"
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 WordNet (r) 1.7 (wn)
Rebekah
n : (Old Testament) wife of Isaac and mother of Jacob and Esau
[syn: {Rebecca}, {Rebekah}]
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