This is the name of Zilpah: Leah's maidservant; mother of Gad and Asher.
Definition
; from an unused root apparently meaning to trickle, as myrrh; fragrant dropping; Zilpah, Leah's maid
Traditional renderings: Zilpah.
Traditional renderings: Zilpah.
Glossary entries
Where it occurs
Occurrences
7 total
- Genesis 29:24זִלְפָּ֖ה · ZilpahAnd Laban gave his servant girl Zilpah to his daughter Leah as her maidservant.
- Genesis 30:9זִלְפָּ֣ה · ZilpahWhen Leah saw that she had stopped having children, she gave her servant Zilpah to Jacob as a wife.
- Genesis 30:10זִלְפָּ֛ה · ZilpahAnd Leah’s servant Zilpah bore Jacob a son.
- Genesis 30:12זִלְפָּה֙ · ZilpahWhen Leah’s servant Zilpah bore Jacob a second son,
- Genesis 35:26זִלְפָּ֛ה · ZilpahAnd the sons of Leah’s maidservant Zilpah were Gad and Asher. These are the sons of Jacob, who were born to him in Paddan-aram.
- Genesis 37:2זִלְפָּ֖ה · and ZilpahThis 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 46:18זִלְפָּ֔ה · to ZilpahThese are the sons of Jacob born to Zilpah—whom Laban gave to his daughter Leah—sixteen in all.