MDMD(11): Rebekah

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John Bailey wrote:
> 
> Rebekah - From where does this unusual (?) spelling arrive? Not in the
> fiction, I mean, but I've never come across the name spelt this way. It
> doesn't sound that British to me, but, whatever. Rebecca means to tie or to
> bind, which is an interesting coincidence...

Rebekah = Noose


http://www.execulink.com/~wblank/rebekah.htm


My guess is that this was the  way that she spelled her name--Old
Testament names being a fad at the time.