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Zilpah
Drooping, Leah’s handmaid, and the mother of Gad and Asher (Gen. 30:9-13).
Also from Smith's (1884) +−
(a trickling), a Syrian given by Laban to his daughter Leah as an attendant, (Genesis 29:24) and by Leah to Jacob as a concubine. She was the mother of Gad and Asher. (Genesis 30:9-13; 35:26; 37:2; 46:18) (B.C. 1753.)
In the Bible
7
Verses where Zilpah is named. Berean Standard Bible (public domain).
- Genesis 29:24
And Laban gave his servant girl Zilpah to his daughter Leah as her maidservant.
- Genesis 30:9
When Leah saw that she had stopped having children, she gave her servant Zilpah to Jacob as a wife.
- Genesis 30:10
And Leah’s servant Zilpah bore Jacob a son.
- Genesis 30:12
When Leah’s servant Zilpah bore Jacob a second son,
- Genesis 35:26
And 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 37:2
This 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.
+1 more verse naming Zilpah.
Scripture on Zilpah
5
Sources · Hitchcock's Bible Names (1869) · Easton's Bible Dictionary (1897) · Smith's Bible Dictionary (1884)
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