REBEKAH

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• REBEKAH (noun)
  The noun REBEKAH has 1 sense:

1. (Old Testament) wife of Isaac and mother of Jacob and Esau

  Familiarity information: REBEKAH used as a noun is very rare.

• REBEKAH (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

(Old Testament) wife of Isaac and mother of Jacob and Esau

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Synonyms:

Rebecca; Rebekah

Instance hypernyms:

married woman; wife (a married woman; a man's partner in marriage)

Domain category:

Old Testament (the collection of books comprising the sacred scripture of the Hebrews and recording their history as the chosen people; the first half of the Christian Bible)

 Context examples 

Here we got a rare chance to look at snapshots of genomes ‘before’ and ‘after’ a population decline in a single species, said Rebekah Rogers, who led the work as a postdoctoral scholar at Berkeley and is now an assistant professor at the University of North Carolina at Charlotte.

(Genetic ‘Mutational Meltdown’ Doomed Woolly Mammoths, VOA)