noun · feminine
rebekkas
GreekῬεβέκκα (rebekka)
Strong’sG4479
Rebecca
stem rebekk-once in the New Testament1 of 10 forms occur
Translated as
What it means
Ῥεβέκκα, -ας (v. Bl., § 7, 2), ἡ, (Heb. רִבְקָה),
G. Abbott-Smith, A Manual Greek Lexicon of the New Testament, 1922 — public domain. References open in the reader.
Strong’s G4479 — the 1890 definition, and where the word comes from
Saidhreb-bek'-kah
Rebecca (i.e. Ribkah), the wife of Isaac
Fromof Hebrew origin ();
King JamesRebecca.
James Strong, Exhaustive Concordance of the Bible, 1890 — public domain. The numbers in it link to the entries here.
Every form
| Job in the sentence case | one singular | more than one plural |
|---|---|---|
| subject nominative | rebekkas1×Ῥεβέκκα | rebekkais |
| object accusative | rebekkan | rebekkain |
| direct address vocative | rebekkar | rebekkair |
| of, belonging to genitive | rebekkau | rebekkaiu |
| to, for dative | rebekka | rebekkai |
Tinted cells are forms the New Testament never uses, so there is no Greek to show against them — but they are still correct Biblang, built from the slots below like any other.
Why these forms, and no others — the slots that make them
rebekka is this word in every one of its forms. The slots after it make all the rest.
same in every form varies — every value shown
Where it appears
1 occurrence, every one of them listed
rebekkas“Rebecca”subjectnominative singular1×
Romans 9:10“Rebecca”ouk monem de, alla kai Rebekkas ek henou koitan echarōtas, Isaak tou patērou nu;Not only that, but Rebecca’s children were conceived by one man, our father Isaac.