בִּלְהָהBilhâh
proper name, feminine: handmaid of Rachel, concubine of Jacob (Genesis 29:29; Genesis 30:3; Genesis 30:4; Genesis 30:5; Genesis 30:7)
Pronunciation: bil-haw' · Hebrew/Aramaic (Old Testament) · H1090
Same root
Where it appears
Appears 11 times in the Bible.
- Genesis 29:29 (Laban gave Rachel a servant, Bilhah, to be her maid.)
- Genesis 30:3 Then Rachel told him, “Take my maid, Bilhah, and sleep with her. She will bear children for me, and through her I can have a family, too.”
- Genesis 30:4 So Rachel gave her servant, Bilhah, to Jacob as a wife, and he slept with her.
- Genesis 30:5 Bilhah became pregnant and presented him with a son.
- Genesis 30:7 Then Bilhah became pregnant again and gave Jacob a second son.
- Genesis 35:22 While he was living there, Reuben had intercourse with Bilhah, his father’s concubine, and Jacob soon heard about it. These are the names of the twelve sons of Jacob:
Source: Brown, Driver and Briggs, Hebrew and English Lexicon of the Old Testament (1906), public domain; markup by unfoldingWord, CC BY (github.com/unfoldingWord/Brown-Driver-Briggs-Enhanced).