The wife of Isaac, and mother of Esau and Jacob; she favors her second son, Jacob, and successfully plots with him to win his elder brother's birthright from him.
One of the Matriarchs. Wife of Isaac and younger sister of Jacob's father-in-law, Lavan. Was chosen as Isaac's bride by Abraham's servant Eliezer, after she gave both him and his camels water to drink.
Isaac's wife, mother to Jacob and Esau. Rebecca is the active parent, talking to God when she is pregnant and learning the fate of her children, then ultimately manipulating Isaac and the children to ensure that that fate, Jacob's ascendancy, transpires.