רָחֵל (ra.chel) means “Rachel” in the TBESH Hebrew lexicon from STEPBible.
Pronunciation guide: raw-khale' Strong’s Hebrew pronunciation spelling.
רָחֵל · ra.chel · Rachel
A woman living at the time of the Patriarchs, first mentioned at Gen.29.6; daughter of: Laban (H3837A); sister of: Leah (H3812); married to Israel (H3478); mother of: Joseph (H3130) and Benjamin (H1144) Also named: Rhachēl (Ῥαχήλ "Rachel" G4478) § Rachel = "ewe" daughter of Laban, wife of Jacob, and mother of Joseph and Benjamin
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the same as H7353 (רָחֵל); Rachel, a wife of Jacob
KJV glosses: Rachel.
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Counts below follow each translation’s tagged words. A rendering can cover a phrase. Differences in text editions and tagging can produce different totals.
| Rendering | Count |
|---|---|
| rachel | 25 |
| and rachel | 3 |
| rachels | 3 |
| but rachel | 2 |
| then rachel | 2 |
| and rachels | 1 |
| any children | 1 |
| for rachel | 1 |
| it for rachel | 1 |
| like rachel | 1 |
| now rachel | 1 |
| of rachel | 1 |
| of rachel were | 1 |
| of rachels | 1 |
| so rachel | 1 |
| when rachel | 1 |
| with rachel | 1 |
| Rendering | Count |
|---|---|
| and rachel | 8 |
| rachel | 8 |
| of rachel | 3 |
| but rachel | 2 |
| for rachel | 2 |
| rachels | 2 |
| against rachel | 1 |
| also and rachel | 1 |
| also rachel | 1 |
| also unto rachel | 1 |
| and behold rachel | 1 |
| and it came to pass when rachel | 1 |
| and unto rachel | 1 |
| and when rachel | 1 |
| by rachels | 1 |
| him rachel | 1 |
| into rachels | 1 |
| like rachel | 1 |
| no children rachel | 1 |
| not that rachel | 1 |
| now rachel | 1 |
| of rachels | 1 |
| rahel | 1 |
| then rachel | 1 |
| to rachel | 1 |
| unto rachel | 1 |
| with thee for rachel | 1 |
| with them rachel | 1 |
Page 1 of 1. 44 verses in the selected STEP text, printed below in BSB where available. Read each verse in its chapter to follow the author’s thought.
“Is he well?” Jacob inquired. “Yes,” they answered, “and here comes his daughter Rachel with his sheep.”
Read word by wordWhile he was still speaking with them, Rachel arrived with her father’s sheep, for she was a shepherdess.
Read word by wordAs soon as Jacob saw Rachel, the daughter of his mother’s brother Laban, with Laban’s sheep, he went up and rolled the stone away from the mouth of the well and watered his uncle’s sheep.
Read word by wordThen Jacob kissed Rachel and wept aloud.
Read word by wordHe told Rachel that he was Rebekah’s son, a relative of her father, and she ran and told her father.
Read word by wordNow Laban had two daughters; the older was named Leah, and the younger was named Rachel.
Read word by wordLeah had weak eyes, but Rachel was shapely and beautiful.
Read word by wordSince Jacob loved Rachel, he answered, “I will serve you seven years for your younger daughter Rachel.”
Read word by wordSo Jacob served seven years for Rachel, yet it seemed but a few days because of his love for her.
Read word by wordWhen morning came, there was Leah! “What have you done to me?” Jacob said to Laban. “Wasn’t it for Rachel that I served you? Why have you deceived me?”
Read word by wordAnd Jacob did just that. He finished the week’s celebration, and Laban gave him his daughter Rachel as his wife.
Read word by wordLaban also gave his servant girl Bilhah to his daughter Rachel as her maidservant.
Read word by wordJacob slept with Rachel as well, and indeed, he loved Rachel more than Leah. So he worked for Laban another seven years.
Read word by wordWhen the LORD saw that Leah was unloved, He opened her womb; but Rachel was barren.
Read word by wordWhen Rachel saw that she was not bearing any children for Jacob, she envied her sister. “Give me children, or I will die!” she said to Jacob.
Read word by wordJacob became angry with Rachel and said, “Am I in the place of God, who has withheld children from you?”
Read word by wordThen Rachel said, “God has vindicated me; He has heard my plea and given me a son.” So she named him Dan.
Read word by wordAnd Rachel’s servant Bilhah conceived again and bore Jacob a second son.
Read word by wordThen Rachel said, “In my great struggles, I have wrestled with my sister and won.” So she named him Naphtali.
Read word by wordNow during the wheat harvest, Reuben went out and found some mandrakes in the field. When he brought them to his mother, Rachel begged Leah, “Please give me some of your son’s mandrakes.”
Read word by wordBut Leah replied, “Is it not enough that you have taken away my husband? Now you want to take my son’s mandrakes as well?” “Very well,” said Rachel, “he may sleep with you tonight in exchange for your son’s mandrakes.”
Read word by wordThen God remembered Rachel. He listened to her and opened her womb,
Read word by wordNow after Rachel had given birth to Joseph, Jacob said to Laban, “Send me on my way so I can return to my homeland.
Read word by wordSo Jacob sent word and called Rachel and Leah to the field where his flocks were,
Read word by wordAnd Rachel and Leah replied, “Do we have any portion or inheritance left in our father’s house?
Read word by wordNow while Laban was out shearing his sheep, Rachel stole her father’s household idols.
Read word by wordIf you find your gods with anyone here, he shall not live! In the presence of our relatives, see for yourself if anything is yours, and take it back.” For Jacob did not know that Rachel had stolen the idols.
Read word by wordSo Laban went into Jacob’s tent, then Leah’s tent, and then the tents of the two maidservants, but he found nothing. Then he left Leah’s tent and entered Rachel’s tent.
Read word by wordNow Rachel had taken Laban’s household idols, put them in the saddlebag of her camel, and was sitting on them. And Laban searched everything in the tent but found nothing.
Read word by wordNow Jacob looked up and saw Esau coming toward him with four hundred men. So he divided the children among Leah, Rachel, and the two maidservants.
Read word by wordHe put the maidservants and their children in front, Leah and her children next, and Rachel and Joseph at the rear.
Read word by wordLeah and her children also approached and bowed down, and then Joseph and Rachel approached and bowed down.
Read word by wordLater, they set out from Bethel, and while they were still some distance from Ephrath, Rachel began to give birth, and her labor was difficult.
Read word by wordSo Rachel died and was buried on the way to Ephrath (that is, Bethlehem).
Read word by wordJacob set up a pillar on her grave; it marks Rachel’s tomb to this day.
Read word by wordThe sons of Rachel were Joseph and Benjamin.
Read word by wordThe sons of Rachel’s maidservant Bilhah were Dan and Naphtali.
Read word by wordThe sons of Jacob’s wife Rachel: Joseph and Benjamin.
Read word by wordThese are the sons of Rachel born to Jacob—fourteen in all.
Read word by wordThese are the sons of Jacob born to Bilhah, whom Laban gave to his daughter Rachel—seven in all.
Read word by wordNow as for me, when I was returning from Paddan, to my sorrow Rachel died along the way in the land of Canaan, some distance from Ephrath. So I buried her there beside the road to Ephrath” (that is, Bethlehem).
Read word by word“We are witnesses,” said the elders and all the people at the gate. “May the LORD make the woman entering your home like Rachel and Leah, who together built up the house of Israel. May you be prosperous in Ephrathah and famous in Bethlehem.
Read word by wordWhen you leave me today, you will find two men at Rachel’s tomb in Zelzah on the border of Benjamin. They will say to you, ‘The donkeys you seek have been found, and now your father has stopped worrying about the donkeys and started worrying about you, asking, “What should I do about my son?”’
Read word by wordThis is what the LORD says: “A voice is heard in Ramah, mourning and great weeping, Rachel weeping for her children and refusing to be comforted, because they are no more.”
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