Rivka is from the Hebrew Rivqāh (רִבְקָה — to bind, to tie). A modern American baby name in the broader Hebrew heritage aesthetic. Rebecca (Rivka) is one of the four foundational matriarchs of Judaism — wife of Isaac, mother of Esau and Jacob (Genesis 24-27). Her foundational story — drawn from the well at Nahor by Abraham's servant Eliezer and chosen as Isaac's bride — is one of the foundational courtship narratives in biblical literature. She is the foundational matriarch buried at the Cave of the Patriarchs in Hebron alongside Sarah, Leah, Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob — one of the foundational Jewish pilgrimage sites. Central to Jewish, Christian, and Islamic traditions. Subject of countless Renaissance paintings including Poussin's Rebecca at the Well (1648).
Featured throughout biblical heritage.
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Rivka reduces to four.