Entry № 8604 · Hebrew origin

Rebekah Rebekah — Meaning, Origin & Baby Name Popularity

/ reh-BEK-ah /
Gender
Girl
Origin
Hebrew
Meaning
"To bind, to tie"
Syllables
3
First recorded
Ancient (Hebrew Bible)

A name that means "to bind, to tie".

Rebekah (רִבְקָה) is the original Hebrew spelling of the biblical matriarch — usually anglicised as Rebecca. The root rabaq means "to bind" or "to tie," possibly referring to a snare or, by extension, to a beautiful woman who captivates by her appearance.

In Genesis, Rebekah is the wife of Isaac and mother of Jacob and Esau. She is the matriarch who helps Jacob receive Isaac's blessing — playing a decisive role in the formation of Israel. The H spelling is more common in observant Jewish and evangelical Christian families.

The biblical matriarch. The original H spelling.

The name in its native script.

רִבְקָה
Transliteration
Riḇqāh
Pronunciation
/ rəˈbɛk.ə /
Root
Grammatical form

Where Rebekah stands.

Rebekah does not currently appear in the US Social Security Administration's top 1,000 girls' names, so we don't publish a US rank or birth count for it. That says nothing about the name's standing elsewhere in the world — only that it sits outside the ranked US data we rely on.

Rebekahs before her.

Real people
Rebekah Brooks
British journalist.
born 1968
In fiction
Rebekah
Matriarch of Genesis, wife of Isaac.
Hebrew Bible

Names connected to Rebekah.

The number behind Rebekah.

5

The Seeker

In Pythagorean numerology the letters of Rebekah reduce to 5, The Seeker. This is a traditional interpretive system, not a factual claim about the name.