Rachel

Alternative forms

 * Rachael
 * Rachelle

Etymology
From רָחֵל, "ewe"

Proper noun

 * 1)  Younger daughter of Laban, sister to Leah, and second wife of Jacob.

Quotations

 * And Laban had two daughters: the name of the elder was Leah, and the name of the younger was Rachel. Leah was tender eyed; but Rachel was beautiful and well favoured. And Jacob loved Rachel; and said, I will serve thee seven years for Rachel thy younger daughter.
 * 1849 The Massachusetts Teacher, Massachusetts Teachers' Association, Vol. 2,page 26, January 1849:
 * Rachel is another modest, nun-like name, of the same order as Judith, and has the appropriate signification of a lamb.
 * 1979 Doris Lessing, Shikasta, Knopf, 1979, ISBN 0394507321, page 293
 * She keeps saying, You are mistaken Rachel. She says my name in that heavy earnest way. The Jewish Ra-chel. I like my name like that. I have always been pleased when people said Ra-chel. But when she says it, it is as if she was taking me over. Through my name.
 * She keeps saying, You are mistaken Rachel. She says my name in that heavy earnest way. The Jewish Ra-chel. I like my name like that. I have always been pleased when people said Ra-chel. But when she says it, it is as if she was taking me over. Through my name.

Translations

 * Arabic: راحيل
 * Armenian:
 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin: 拉结
 * Danish:
 * Dutch:
 * Esperanto: Raĥel
 * Estonian:
 * Finnish:
 * French:
 * German: ,


 * Hebrew: רחל
 * Italian:
 * Japanese: ラケル
 * Lithuanian: Rachelė
 * Norwegian:
 * Polish:
 * Portuguese:
 * Russian: Рахиль
 * Spanish:
 * Swedish:
 * Yiddish: רחל


 * Estonian:


 * Hawaiian:

Proper noun

 * 1)  Rachel.

Anagrams

 * lâcher

Alternative forms

 * Rahel

Proper noun

 * 1)  Rachel.

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