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re: Rebekah/Rebecca

Mrs.ThistletwatMrs.Thistletwat
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Actually the "correct/biblical" spelling is in Hebrew. Not to mention every Jewish girl with this name (that I know - and there are a lot of 'em) spells it with 2 c's.
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Re: re: Rebekah/Rebecca

  • JulseybeanJulseybean
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    edited December 2011
    So, is Rebekah not a Jewish-y spelling? Maybe I'm just associating because one of my kid bffs was Jewish and spelled her name Rebekah.
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  • PMeg819PMeg819 member
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    edited December 2011
    Ditto Julsey. I had a friend who spelled it the first way and according to her family, that was the Jewish way to spell it.
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  • Mrs.ThistletwatMrs.Thistletwat
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    edited December 2011
    the claim is that it is. I've yet to see a translated Torah with that spelling. Not to mention, the fact that the original name is in hebrew. I think the schmancy-ness of the K and the H make people *think* it's an older spelling than it is. There are major claims that it is the older spelling of the name or that it's an exact transliteration. Both spellings are exact transliterations, actually.
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  • JulseybeanJulseybean
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    edited December 2011
    I still have no idea what you just said. haha
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  • Mrs.ThistletwatMrs.Thistletwat
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    edited December 2011
    Basically both Rebecca and Rebekah are direct transliterations of the original Hebrew spelling. The claim is that the KH version is and older transliteration but there is no proof. My main point was that the "Jewish/Biblical" spelling comment is a load of horse shiit.
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  • JulseybeanJulseybean
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    edited December 2011
    Oh ok. But still, Rebekah isn't some newfangled, made up crap, like Jessykah, right?
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  • Mrs.ThistletwatMrs.Thistletwat
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    edited December 2011
    sadly, no.
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  • JulseybeanJulseybean
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    edited December 2011
    I really don't find it that offensive, maybe because I knew someone with that name and her fam was super classy. Whatevs.
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  • Mrs.ThistletwatMrs.Thistletwat
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    edited December 2011
    It annoys the hell out of me. I can't tell you how many times I've had to respell my name because of this. Rebeccah, Rebeckah, Rebecckah. Rebekka, Rebekkah.
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  • GBCKGBCK member
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    edited December 2011
    meh, it's the spelling used in the king james version of the bible...That at least makes it non-newfangled-crazy-spelling-with-odd-letters-fad-ish.
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