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רחל

ra-KHEL

Phonetics · ra-KHEL

Ewe; Rachel, matriarch.

Register: formal · liturgicalPart of speech: noun (f.) / proper nounHebrew (עברית, Ivrit)

"Ewe" — and Rachel, the shepherdess matriarch buried on the road to Bethlehem.

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