Rachel
historical figure · 2 works · 2 mentions · 2 anchored passages
Rāḥīl · راحيل
in the texts
Ansāb al-ʻArab al-qudamāʼ
The Hebrew name meaning ewe, one of the early Hebrew animal names Zaydan lists as parallel to the Arab tribal names.
The Jews, in their earliest periods, followed this pattern in naming, and that is why you see among their ancient names many names of animals:
Law in a Free State
Biblical figure for whom Jacob toiled fourteen years, invoked as part of the same precedent for steadfast devotion.
but Jacob toiled fourteen years for Rachel, and a nineteenth-century Englishman is not less steadfast and persevering where the reward is love.