Zilpah
Zilpah is Leah's slave-girl given to Jacob as concubine; she bears Gad and Asher on Leah's behalf in Genesis 30.
- Meaning
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- Occupation
- Slave-girl
- First mention
- Genesis 29:24
Scripture references
- Genesis 29:24
Laban gave his slave-girl Zilpah to his daughter Leah as her slave.
- Genesis 30:9
Now Leah, seeing that she had ceased to bear children, took her slave-girl Zilpah and gave her to Jacob as concubine.
- Genesis 30:10
So Leah's slave-girl Zilpah gave birth to a son by Jacob.
- Genesis 30:12
Leah's slave-girl Zilpah 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 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.