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Rachel (given name) 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 .
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. Rachel's father was Laban. Her older sister was Leah, Jacob's first wife. Her aunt Rebecca was Jacob's mother.
This list of Scottish Gaelic given names shows Scottish Gaelic given names beside their English language equivalent. In some cases, the equivalent can be a cognate , in other cases it may be an Anglicised spelling derived from the Gaelic name, or in other cases it can be an etymologically unrelated name.
My Name Is Rachel Corrie. My Name Is Rachel Corrie at Playhouse Theatre, London, 2006. My Name Is Rachel Corrie is a play based on the diaries and emails of activist Rachel Corrie, who was killed by an Israeli soldier when she was aged 23. [1] It was jointly edited by journalist Katharine Viner and actor Alan Rickman, who also directed it.
Leah [a] ( / ˈliːə /) appears in the Hebrew Bible as one of the two wives of the Biblical patriarch Jacob. Leah was Jacob's first wife, and the older sister of his second (and favored) wife Rachel. She is the mother of Jacob's first son Reuben. She has three more sons, namely Simeon, Levi and Judah, but does not bear another son until Rachel ...
Rachel and Kayleen find answers when they look back even further on their maternal side of the family to their five-times great-grandfather, James Gray. Gray was a loyalist during the American ...
Short form (s) aem. See also. mea. Alma ( / ˈɑːlmə / AHL-mə) [ 1] or (according to Jones 1997) /'ælmə/) is an English feminine given name, but has historically been used in the masculine form as well, sometimes in the form Almo. [ 2] The origin of the name is debated; it may have been derived from "alma mater" [ 3] ("benevolent mother ...
Abigail is a feminine given name.The name comes from the Biblical Hebrew: אֲבִיגַיִל / אֲבִיגָיִל ʾĂḇīḡayīl, meaning "my father's joy" (alternatively "my father is exulted" or "my father is joyful", among others).