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  2. Rachel (given name) - Wikipedia

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    Rachel (Hebrew: רָחֵל, Modern: Raḥel, Tiberian: Rāḫēl, Rāḥēl), meaning "ewe", [1] [2] is a feminine given name of Hebrew origin, popularized by the biblical figure Rachel, the wife of Israelite patriarch Jacob.

  3. Rachel - Wikipedia

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    Rachel (Hebrew: רָחֵל, romanized: Rāḥēl, lit. ' ewe ') [ 1 ] was a Biblical figure, the favorite of Jacob 's two wives, and the mother of Joseph and Benjamin , two of the twelve progenitors of the tribes of Israel .

  4. Bilhah - Wikipedia

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    Genesis 29:29 describes her as Laban's handmaiden (שִׁפְחָה), who was given to Rachel to be her handmaid on Rachel's marriage to Jacob. When Rachel failed to have children, Rachel gave Bilhah to Jacob like a wife to bear him children. [2] Bilhah gave birth to two sons, whom Rachel claimed as her own and named Dan and Naphtali. [3]

  5. Rae (given name) - Wikipedia

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    Other names; Related names: Rachel, Ray, Raquel, Raphael: Rae is a unisex given name. It may be a short form of the female name Rachel, which means "ewe" in Hebrew.

  6. Leah - Wikipedia

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    Rachel envied Leah's tearful prayers, by which she merited to marry the tzaddik and bear six of his twelve sons. [17] [20] The Talmud (Megillah 13b) says that Rachel revealed to Leah the secret signs which she and Jacob had devised to identify the veiled bride, because they both suspected Laban would pull such a trick. [21]

  7. Rachel (disambiguation) - Wikipedia

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    Rachel (given name), a female name (including a list of people and characters with the name) Rachel Bluwstein, a Hebrew-language poet often referred to simply as Rachel or Rachel the Poetess; Rachel Ros, a French singer and representative of France in the Eurovision Song Contest 1964; Rachel, wife of Rabbi Akiva, a 1st-century CE resident of ...

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  9. Teraphim - Wikipedia

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    Rachel may also have intended to assert her independence from her father and her legal rights within the extended family; in ancient Middle Eastern custom, the possession of familial idols was an indicator of authority and property rights within a family.