Zilpah in the Bible

Meaning: distillation from the mouth

Exact Match

When Leah saw that she had stopped having children, she took her slave Zilpah and gave her to Jacob as a wife.

Verse ConceptsConcubinesCessationGiving In Marriage

The sons of Leah’s slave Zilpah
were Gad and Asher.


These are the sons of Jacob, who were born to him in Paddan-aram.

These are the family records of Jacob.

At 17 years of age, Joseph tended sheep with his brothers. The young man was working with the sons of Bilhah and Zilpah, his father’s wives, and he brought a bad report about them to their father.

Verse ConceptsThose Who Kept StockHalf brothersParents Being Wrong

When Joseph was seventeen years old, he was helping his brothers tend their flocks. He was a young man at that time, as were the children of Bilhah and Zilpah, his father's wives. But Joseph would come back and tell his father that his brothers were doing bad things. Now Israel loved Joseph more than all his brothers, since he was born to him in his old age, so he had made a richly-embroidered tunic for him.

Verse ConceptsGesturesOld Age, DisabilitiesClothingChildren, needs ofIntimacyOld Age, Attainment OfOrnamentsPrejudiceRobesChildren, Parents LovePartialityHope For Old PeopleFine ClothesMulti ColouredThose Who LovedMan's FavouriteLove For ChildrenColor

These were the sons of Zilpah—whom Laban gave to his daughter Leah—that she bore to Jacob: 16 persons.

Verse ConceptsSixteen

Thematic Bible



And the sons of Zilpah, Leah's slave woman: Gad and Asher. These were the sons of Jacob born to him in Padan-aram.

These are the generations of Jacob: Joseph, a son of seventeen years, came tending the flock with his brothers. And he was a youth with the sons of Bilhah, and with the sons of Zilpah, his father's wives. And Joseph brought to his father an evil report of them.

When Leah saw that she had quit bearing, she took her slave woman Zilpah and gave her to Jacob to wife. And Leah's slave woman Zilpah bore Jacob a son. And Leah said, With fortune. And she called his name Gad. read more.
And Leah's slave woman Zilpah bore Jacob a second son. And Leah said, I am happy, for the daughters will call me blessed. And she called his name Asher.

These are the sons of Zilpah, whom Laban gave to Leah his daughter, and these whom she bore to Jacob, sixteen souls.


And Laban gave Zilpah his slave woman to his daughter Leah for a handmaid.


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