Person

Rebekah

Name means
fat; fattened; a quarrel appeased
Lived
born c. 1874 BC
Mentioned
29 verses · first in Genesis 22:23

Family

GrandparentsNahorMilcah
ParentsBethuel
Rebekah married toIsaac
ChildrenIsraelEsau
Brothers & sistersLaban

About 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 Easton’s Bible Dictionary (1897).

On the timeline

  1. 1855 BCIsaac Marries RebekahGenesis 25:20
  2. 1835 BCBirth of Jacob and EsauGenesis 25:24–26
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People data: Theographic Bible Metadata (CC BY-SA 4.0). Dates are traditional estimates.