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HebrewH1090Proper Noun (Feminine)

בִּלְהָה

bil.hah

11Occurrences
H1090Strong's #
Proper Noun (Feminine)Part of Speech

Definition

Quick Definition(Strong's Concordance)

Bilhah, the name of one of Jacob's concubines; also of a place in Palestine

from H1089 (בָּלַהּ); timid;

Full Lexicon Entry(Abbott-Smith)
A woman living at the time of the Patriarchs, first mentioned at ; married to Israel (H3478); mother of: Dan (H1835H) and Naphtali (H5321) § Bilhah = "troubled" Rachel's handmaid whom she gave to Jacob as a concubine, mother to two of Jacob's children, Dan and Naphtali

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Grammar & Morphology

Part of Speech

Proper Noun (Feminine)

Morphology Code

N:N-F-P

Full Description

Proper Noun, Feminine

Occurrences

בִּלְהָה appears 11 times in the Old Testament.

Distribution by Book

Genesis
9
1 Chronicles
2

Key Passages

1 Chronicles 4:29BSB

Bilhah, Ezem, Tolad,

Genesis 29:29BSB

Laban also gave his servant girl Bilhah to his daughter Rachel as her maidservant.

Genesis 30:4BSB

So Rachel gave Jacob her servant Bilhah as a wife, and he slept with her,

Genesis 30:7BSB

And Rachel’s servant Bilhah conceived again and bore Jacob a second son.

Genesis 35:25BSB

The sons of Rachel’s maidservant Bilhah were Dan and Naphtali.

Lexicon data from STEPBible.org (Tyndale House, Cambridge) under CC BY 4.0 license.