This name belongs to 2 different people and places in the Bible:
Definition
from H1089; timid; Bilhah, the name of one of Jacob's concubines; also of a place in Palestine
Traditional renderings: Bilhah.
Traditional renderings: Bilhah.
Glossary entries
Where it occurs
Occurrences
11 total
- Genesis 29:29בִּלְהָ֖ה · BilhahLaban also gave his servant girl Bilhah to his daughter Rachel as her maidservant.
- Genesis 30:3בִלְהָ֖ה · BilhahThen she said, “Here is my maidservant Bilhah. Sleep with her, that she may bear children for me, so that through her I too can build a family.”
- Genesis 30:4בִּלְהָ֥ה · BilhahSo Rachel gave Jacob her servant Bilhah as a wife, and he slept with her,
- Genesis 30:5בִּלְהָ֔ה · and Bilhah…and Bilhah conceived and bore him a son.
- Genesis 30:7בִּלְהָ֖ה · BilhahAnd Rachel’s servant Bilhah conceived again and bore Jacob a second son.
- Genesis 35:22בִּלְהָ֖ה֙ · BilhahWhile Israel was living in that region, Reuben went in and slept with his father’s concubine Bilhah, and Israel heard about it. Jacob had twelve sons:
- Genesis 35:25בִלְהָה֙ · Bilhah [were]The sons of Rachel’s maidservant Bilhah were Dan and Naphtali.
- Genesis 37:2בִלְהָ֛ה · BilhahThis is the account of Jacob. When Joseph was seventeen years old, he was tending the flock with his brothers, the sons of his father’s wives Bilhah and Zilpah, and he brought their father a bad report about them.
- Genesis 46:25בִלְהָ֔ה · to BilhahThese are the sons of Jacob born to Bilhah, whom Laban gave to his daughter Rachel—seven in all.
- 1 Chronicles 4:29וּבְבִלְהָ֥ה · BilhahBilhah, Ezem, Tolad,
- 1 Chronicles 7:13בִלְהָֽה׃פ · of BilhahThe sons of Naphtali: Jahziel, Guni, Jezer, and Shallum—the descendants of Bilhah.