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Iscah
Iscah ( – "Yiskāh"; ) is the daughter of Haran and the niece of Abraham in the Book of Genesis. The passage in which Iscah is mentioned is extremely brief. As a result rabbinical scholars have developed theories to explain it, typically adopting the claim that Iscah was an alternate name for Sarah (Sarai), the wife of Abraham, particularly that it denoted her role as a prophetess.
The Babylonian Talmud connects the name Iscah to an Aramaic verbal rooting meaning "to see", connecting
. According to the Babylonian Talmud, Rabbi Isaac Nappaha, who was one of the Palestinian rabbis, said that Iscah and Sarah were the same person: "And why was she called Iscah? Because she saw through the Holy Spirit".
Ancestor of Rebecca.
She is identified as the grandmother of Rebecca in the Book of Genesis, but some scholars believe that Milcah may have been originally been Rebeccas mother. They have argued that Bethuel, who is identified as Rebecca's father by the priestly source, was a