Rebekah

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Rebekah is a feminine given name, traditionally associated with the biblical matriarch Rebecca and used in various English-speaking cultures.

All labels observed (6)

Label Occurrences
Rebekah canonical 45
Rivka 6
Rivkah 2

How this entity was disambiguated

Statements (39)

Predicate Object
instanceOf feminine given name
given name
associatedWith Rebekah self-linksurface differs
surface form: biblical matriarch Rebecca
culturalUsage Christian communities worldwide
English-speaking countries
endsWith h
etymologicalOrigin Hebrew name Rivqah
gender feminine
grammaticalNumber singular
hasLanguageOfUse English
Hebrew
hasNotableBearer Rebekah Brooks
Rebekah Del Rio
Rebekah Elmaloglou
Rebekah Mercer
Rebekah Staton
hasReligiousAssociation Christianity
Judaism
hasShortForm Becky
surface form: Becca

Becky
Bek
Becky
surface form: Bekah

Bex
hasStressPattern stress on second syllable in common English pronunciation (re-BE-kah)
hasVariantForm Rebecca
Rebeca
surface form: Rebeccah

Rebekka Vaark
surface form: Rebekka
meaning often interpreted as “to tie” or “to bind”
nameCategory biblical name
theophoric and religiously significant name
nameDayTradition observed in some Christian calendars under form Rebecca
nameLength 7 letters
popularityTrend more common in modern English than in earlier centuries
pronunciationVariant /rɪˈbiːkə/ (less common)
/rɪˈbɛkə/
spellingType variant of Rebecca
startsWith R
usedAs first name
writingSystem Latin alphabet

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Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.