Zilpah
זִלְפָּהStrong’s H2153zilpah (zil-pah)
Appears in 7 verses of the Old Testament
In short
Zilpah is the Hebrew word usually translated “zilpah”. It appears in 7 verses of the Old Testament.
“And Laban gave unto his daughter Leah Zilpah his maid for an handmaid.”
Meaning
- A woman living at the time of the Patriarchs, first mentioned at Gen.29.24; married to Israel (H3478)
How it's translated
- zilpah 7
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- Genesis 7
1 book in all.
Explore in Scripture
- Genesis 30:9When Leah saw that she had left bearing, she took Zilpah her maid, and gave her Jacob to wife.
- Genesis 30:10And Zilpah Leah’s maid bare Jacob a son.
- Genesis 30:12And Zilpah Leah’s maid bare Jacob a second son.
- Genesis 35:26And the sons of Zilpah, Leah’s handmaid; Gad, and Asher: these are the sons of Jacob, which were born to him in Padanaram.
- Genesis 37:2These are the generations of Jacob. Joseph, being seventeen years old, was feeding the flock with his brethren; and the lad was with the sons of Bilhah, and with the sons of Zilpah, his father’s wives: and Joseph brought unto his father their evil report.
- Genesis 46:18These are the sons of Zilpah, whom Laban gave to Leah his daughter, and these she bare unto Jacob, even sixteen souls.
Hebrew dictionary
זִלְפָּה zilpah · Zilpah
A woman living at the time of the Patriarchs, first mentioned at Gen.29.24; married to Israel (H3478); mother of: Gad (H1410) and Asher (H0836) § Zilpah = "a trickling" the Syrian given by Laban to Leah as a handmaid, a concubine of Jacob, mother of Asher and Gad
From STEPBible’s Hebrew lexicon (based on Brown-Driver-Briggs).
Verses are from the King James Version. Word meanings come from the original Hebrew, not from any one translation.