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Strong's #2153: Zilpah (pronounced zil-paw)

: from an unused root apparently meaning to trickle, as myrrh; fragrant dropping; Zilpah, Leah's maid:--Zilpah.




Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon:

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zilpâh

Zilpah = "a trickling"

1) the Syrian given by Laban to Leah as a handmaid, a concubine of Jacob, mother of Asher and Gad

Part of Speech: noun proper feminine

Relation: from an unused root apparently mean to trickle, as myrrh



Usage:

This word is used 7 times:

Genesis 29:24: "unto his daughter Leah Zilpah his maid for a handmaid."
Genesis 30:9: "bearing, Zilpah her maid, and gave her Jacob"
Genesis 30:10: " And Zilpah Leah's maid bore Jacob"
Genesis 30:12: " And Zilpah Leah's maid bore Jacob son."
Genesis 35:26: "And the sons of Zilpah, Leah's handmaid; Gad, these are the sons"
Genesis 37:2: "the sons of Bilhah, and with the sons of Zilpah, his father's wives: and Joseph"
Genesis 46:18: "These are the sons of Zilpah, whom Laban to Leah his daughter,"









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