Rebecca

plural Rebeccas · alternative Rebeccah · alternative Rebekah · alternative Rebekka

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

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

   1809, Charles and Mary Lamb, Poetry for Children: Choosing a Name

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   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.

   1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC, Romans 9:10-12

   "What's her name?" I asked. "Rebecca. Rebecca Valentine." The name Rebecca excited me. I had always wanted to meet a woman called Rebecca—and not Becky. (Rebecca, Ruth, Roxane, Rosalind, Frederika, Ursula, Sheila, Norma, Guinevere, Leonora, Sabina, Malvina, Solange, Deirdre. What wonderful names women had! Like flowers, stars, constellations…)

   1949, Henry Miller, Sexus (The Rosy Crucifixion), Grove Press, published 1965, →ISBN, page 312

   Our daughter's name, Rebecca, summons up similar visions. Although our family is not Jewish, both names (David and Rebecca) have a Hebrew ancestry which, in the eyes of many beholders ( i.e. teachers ) invokes a vision of a family that values education.

   1997, Robert T. Tauber, Self-fulfilling Prophecy, Greenwood Publishing Group, →ISBN, page 61

plural Rebeccas · alternative Rebeccah · alternative Rebekah · alternative Rebekka

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

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

   2019, Marsha R. Robinson, Disobedient Histories in Ancient and Modern Times, page 82