| Definition: | | Rebekah Rebekah, the beautiful wife of Isaac, struggles to find her place in the family of Abraham as she desperately yearns to produce a male heir, a situation that is resolved by the birth of twins, Esau and Jacob, but the intense rivalry between her sons tests her faith and leads to conflict with Isaac over the destiny of their sons. Reprint. more details ... |
| Definition: | | 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). |