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Zilpah

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Easton’s Bible Dictionary & Webster’s 1828 Dictionary

Zilpah - (Easton's Bible Dictionary)

Drooping, Leah's handmaid, and the mother of Gad and Asher (Gen. 30:9-13).

Matthew George Easton, Easton’s Bible Dictionary; Noah Webster, American Dictionary of the English Language (1828)

International Standard Bible Encyclopedia (ISBE 1915)

zil'-pa (zilpah, meaning uncertain; Zelpha): The ancestress of Gad and Asher (Ge 30:10,12; 35:26; 46:18), a slave girl of Leah's, given her by Laban (Ge 29:24; 30:9). In Eze 48 the Zilpah tribes have the 5th division toward the South of Palestine and the 6th to the North, a slightly more favorable position than that of the Bilhah tribes.

International Standard Bible Encyclopedia — James Orr, general editor and contributors; CrossWire SWORD module ISBE 2.2

The article in ISBE 1915

Smith’s Bible Dictionary

(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.)

William Smith; revised by F. N. Peloubet and M. A. Peloubet; CrossWire SWORD module Smith 1.3

The article in Smith

Translation Words

Definition

Zilpah was one of Jacob’s wives. She was the mother of Jacob’s two sons Gad and Asher.

Laban gave Zilpah to Leah as a servant when Leah married Jacob.
When Leah stopped having children, she gave Zilpah to Jacob as a wife to bear more children for her.

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(See also: Jacob, Leah, Gad, Asher)

Bible References

Word Data

Strong’s: H2153

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