REBECCA, BECKY

REBECCA, BECKY are from the Hebrew and originally meant a knotted cord. Just as a knotted cord should hold firm, sothis name has come to be interpreted as a faithful wife. In Hawaiian PILIALO means beloved wife. The Hawaiianized-English form of REBECCA is LEPEKA which is also the Hawaiianized form of a Biblical word for a copper coin; of BECKY it is PEKE, a native Hawaiian word which means a dwaft or elf.


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