They can reveal a lot about our character. When
it signified that a change was about to take place
you have a Scripture-based name? Are you living
a name-change is in order?
Rebekah
Agreement
English Spelling: Rebekah/Rebecca
Hebrew Transliteration: Ribqah
Hebrew: רבקָה
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from an unused root meaning to bind by tying up the fetlock; fettering (by beauty); by extension, a
binding, an agreement, a joining together
Genesis 24:56-59
He said to them, "Don't hinder me, since Yahweh
has prospered my way. Send me away that I may go
to my master." They said, "We will call the young
lady, and ask her." They called Rebekah, and said to
her, "Will you go with this man?" She said, "I will
go." They sent away Rebekah, their sister, with her
nurse, Abraham's servant, and his men.
Genesis 24:65-67
She said to the servant, "Who is the man who is
walking in the field to meet us?" The servant said,
"It is my master." She took her veil, and covered
herself. The servant told Isaac all the things that he
had done. Isaac brought her into his mother Sarah's
tent, and took Rebekah, and she became his wife. He
loved her. Isaac was comforted after his mother's
death.
The Rebekah in Scripture served her name well, by agreeing to go with Abraham’s servant, and then
joining together with Isaac to become his wife. When it came time for Isaac to bless his elder son,
she made sure that Jacob got the blessing. Some have faulted her for this, but I believe she acted out
of the knowledge that was given to her by God, which was a binding agreement between the two of
them.
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