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Vinony

Rebecca

proper noun

  1. female given name
  2. Biblical character
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Wiktionary

Pronunciation: /ɹɪˈbɛkə/

name

Etymology: The Vulgate (Latin) form of biblical Rebekah, from Hebrew רִבְקָה (Rivka, “enchantingly beautiful, captivating, snare”).

  1. A female given name originating from the Bible [in turn from Hebrew], in regular use since the Reformation.

    “And not only this; but when Rebecca also had conceived by one, even by our father Isaac; (For the children being not yet born, neither having done any good or evil, that the purpose of God according to election might stand, not of works, but of him that calleth;) It was said unto her, The elder shall serve the younger.”

    “They would say, if 'twas Rebecca, That she is a little Quaker.”

noun

Etymology: The Vulgate (Latin) form of biblical Rebekah, from Hebrew רִבְקָה (Rivka, “enchantingly beautiful, captivating, snare”).

  1. One who protested in the Rebecca Riots; a Rebeccaite.

    “Colonel George Rice Trevor testified that the Rebeccas attacked poor-houses as well as tollgates.”