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RACHEL
Gender: Feminine Usage: English, Hebrew, French, German, Biblical, Biblical Latin, Biblical Greek, Biblical Hebrew Other Scripts: רָחֵל (Hebrew), Ραχηλ (Ancient Greek) Pronounced: RAY-chəl (English), ra-SHEL (French) [key] Means "ewe" in Hebrew. In the Old Testament this was the name of the favourite wife of Jacob and the mother of Joseph and Benjamin. The name was common among Jews in the Middle Ages, but it was not generally used as a Christian name in the English-speaking world until after the Protestant Reformation.
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