זִלְפָּהZilpâh
drop, drip, sprinkling
Pronunciation: zil-paw · Hebrew/Aramaic (Old Testament) · H2153
Where it appears
Appears 7 times in the Bible.
- Genesis 29:24 (Laban had given Leah a servant, Zilpah, to be her maid.)
- Genesis 30:9 Meanwhile, Leah realized that she wasn’t getting pregnant anymore, so she took her servant, Zilpah, and gave her to Jacob as a wife.
- Genesis 30:10 Soon Zilpah presented him with a son.
- Genesis 30:12 Then Zilpah gave Jacob a second son.
- Genesis 35:26 The sons of Zilpah, Leah’s servant, were Gad and Asher. These are the names of the sons who were born to Jacob at Paddan-aram.
- Genesis 37:2 This is the account of Jacob and his family. When Joseph was seventeen years old, he often tended his father’s flocks. He worked for his half brothers, the sons of his father’s wives Bilhah and Zilpah. But Joseph reported to his father some of the bad things his brothers were doing.
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).