רָחֵל
Râchêl · raw-khale'
Rachel, a wife of Jacob
Lexicon
Derivation: the same as H7353 (רָחֵל);
Rachel, a wife of Jacob
Definition from Strong's Exhaustive Concordance (1890). Wording is Strong's own, including his etymological notes, which are not separate meanings.
KJV renderings: Rachel.
Letters
- רResh200
Picture: a human head
- Concrete
- head · face · person
- Extended
- first · top · beginning · chief · the highest
- חHet8
Picture: courtyard wall or enclosure
- Concrete
- wall · fence · tent wall
- Extended
- to separate · protection · the inside vs. the outside · private
- לLamed30
Picture: shepherd's staff or goad
- Concrete
- staff · goad · yoke · cattle prod
- Extended
- authority · to lead · to teach · to bind · toward
Possible cultural reading (auto-composed)
the head, the highest › to separate and protect › authority, the one who leads
The head, the highest that works to separate and protect of authority, the one who leads.
Interpretive, not lexical. The dictionary sense of רָחֵל above is the attested meaning; this pictographic reading is a tradition about how the sign-shapes may have been heard. Both can be held at once, they are answering different questions.
Usage
47 occurrences · 47 OT · 0 NT · 22 distinct forms
KJV renderings of this word, by how often each one is used.
- and rachel8 · 19%
- rachel7 · 16%
- of rachel3 · 7%
- but rachel2 · 5%
- for rachel2 · 5%
- rachel's2 · 5%
- and, behold, rachel1 · 2%
- with them, rachel1 · 2%
- was rachel1 · 2%
- with thee for rachel1 · 2%
- him rachel1 · 2%
- to rachel1 · 2%
- also unto rachel1 · 2%
- also rachel1 · 2%
- and when rachel1 · 2%
- no children, rachel1 · 2%
- against rachel1 · 2%
- then rachel1 · 2%
- also? and rachel1 · 2%
- and it came to pass, when rachel1 · 2%
- not that rachel1 · 2%
- into rachel's1 · 2%
- now rachel1 · 2%
- and unto rachel1 · 2%
- of rachel's1 · 2%
Inflected forms found in the text.
Counts are computed from the tagged Hebrew and Greek text aligned to the King James Version, not from an estimate.