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HebrewH2153Proper Noun (Feminine)

זִלְפָּה

zil.pah

7Occurrences
H2153Strong's #
Proper Noun (Feminine)Part of Speech

Definition

Quick Definition(Strong's Concordance)

Zilpah, Leah's maid

; from an unused root apparently meaning to trickle, as myrrh; fragrant dropping;

Full Lexicon Entry(Abbott-Smith)
A woman living at the time of the Patriarchs, first mentioned at ; 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

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Grammar & Morphology

Part of Speech

Proper Noun (Feminine)

Morphology Code

N:N-F-P

Full Description

Proper Noun, Feminine

Occurrences

זִלְפָּה appears 7 times in the Old Testament.

Distribution by Book

Genesis
7

Key Passages

Genesis 29:24BSB

And Laban gave his servant girl Zilpah to his daughter Leah as her maidservant.

Genesis 30:9BSB

When Leah saw that she had stopped having children, she gave her servant Zilpah to Jacob as a wife.

Genesis 30:10BSB

And Leah’s servant Zilpah bore Jacob a son.

Genesis 30:12BSB

When Leah’s servant Zilpah bore Jacob a second son,

Genesis 35:26BSB

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.

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