Translation | Verse | Text |
Strong Concordance | Ge 26:7 | And the men [0582] of the place [04725] asked [07592] him of his wife [0802]; and he said [0559], She is my sister [0269]: for he feared [03372] to say [0559], She is my wife [0802]; lest, said he, the men [0582] of the place [04725] should kill [02026] me for Rebekah [07259]; because she was fair [02896] to look upon [04758]. |
Word | American Tract Society - Definition |
REBEKAH | A daughter of Bethuel, and sister of Laban in Mesopotamia, who became the wife of Isaac, and twenty years afterwards the mother of Jacob and Esau. The manner in which she was sought and obtained as the wife of Isaac, exhibits a striking picture of oriental manners and customs. Through her partiality for Jacob, she was tempted into the use of unjustifiable means to secure for him the inheritance, not having faith to leave to God the fulfilment of his own purposes, Ge 25:22,23. Her deceit led to disastrous results: Jacob fled from home; and when he returned from Mesopotamia twenty years afterwards, his mother lay buried in the cave of Machpelah, Ge 24:1-28:22 49:31. |