Bilhah
Bilhah is Rachel's slave-girl and Jacob's concubine, mother of Dan and Naphtali; in Genesis 35 Reuben sleeps with her.
- Meaning
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- Occupation
- Slave-girl
- First mention
- Genesis 29:29
Scripture references
- Genesis 29:29
Laban gave his slave-girl Bilhah to his daughter Rachel as her slave.
- Genesis 30:3
So she said, 'Here is my slave-girl, Bilhah. Sleep with her and let her give birth on my knees; through her, then, I too shall have children!'
- Genesis 30:4
So she gave him her slave-girl Bilhah as concubine. Jacob slept with her,
- Genesis 30:5
and Bilhah conceived and gave birth to a son by Jacob.
- Genesis 30:7
Again Rachel's slave-girl Bilhah conceived and gave birth to a second son by Jacob.
- Genesis 31:33
Laban went into Jacob's tent, and then into Leah's tent and the tent of the two slave-girls, but he found nothing.
- Genesis 35:22
While Israel was living in that district, Reuben went and slept with Bilhah his father's concubine, and Israel found out.
- Genesis 35:25
The sons of Bilhah, Rachel's slave-girl: Dan and Naphtali.
- Genesis 37:2
Joseph was seventeen years old. As he was young, he was shepherding the flock with his brothers, with the sons of his father's wives, Bilhah and Zilpah; and Joseph brought his father bad reports about them.