Rebekah: Meaning (information, definition, explanation, facts)

In the Book of Genesis, Rebekah or Rivka (רבקה "Noose", Standard Hebrew Rivqa, Tiberian Hebrew Riḇqāh) is the wife of Isaac and the mother of Esau and Jacob, and the granddaughter of Abraham's brother Nahor.

She is the sister of Laban in Padan Aram in Mesopotamia. Abraham sends his chief servant there to seek a non-Canaanite wife for his son Isaac. Impressed by Rebekah's kindness and background, he chooses her and brings her back to be Isaac's wife. Apparently, when she first met Isaac, she was so much in love that she fell off her camel!

A modern English spelling of the name is Rebecca. The diminutive is Beckie or Becky.