Rebekah (re-bĕk'ah), a cord with a noose, enchaining. The daughter of Bethuel and sister of Laban. She was a woman of personal attractions and became the wife of Isaac, to whom late in life she bore Esau and Jacob. Genesis 22:23, Genesis 1:24-67, Genesis 1:25-28. Of her sons, Jacob was Rebekah's favorite; and she persuaded him to obtain his father's blessing by fraud. Genesis 1:26-8, Genesis 26:35, Genesis 1:27-46. In consequence Jacob had to flee from his brother's wrath; and it is probable that Rebekah saw her best-loved son no more. Genesis 28:5, Genesis 29:12, Genesis 35:8, Genesis 49:31. She died before Isaac.