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Deborah

A prophetess, in the time of the Patriarchs · named in 1 verse

Deborah, Rebekah's nurse, died and was buried under an oak below Bethel.

From Easton's Bible Dictionary

A bee. (1.) Rebekah's nurse. She accompanied her mistress when she left her father's house in Padan-aram to become the wife of Isaac (Gen. 24:59). Many years afterwards she died at Bethel, and was buried under the \"oak of weeping\", Allon-bachuth (35:8).

Easton's Illustrated Bible Dictionary, 1897 — public domain, quoted in full and unedited.

First named at Genesis 35:8.

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