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



The sons of Zilpah, Leah's servant: Gad and Asher; these are the sons whom Jacob had in Paddan-aram.

These are the generations of Jacob: Joseph, a boy seventeen years old, was looking after the flock, together with his brothers, the sons of Bilhah and Zilpah, his father's wives; and Joseph gave their father a bad account of them.

When it was clear to Leah that she would have no more children for a time, she gave Zilpah, her servant, to Jacob as a wife. And Zilpah, Leah's servant, gave birth to a son. And Leah said, It has gone well for me: and she gave him the name Gad. read more.
And Zilpah, Leah's servant, gave birth to a second son. And Leah said, Happy am I! and all women will give witness to my joy: and she gave him the name Asher.

These are the children of Zilpah, whom Laban gave to his daughter Leah, and Jacob had these sixteen children by her.


And Laban gave Zilpah, his servant-girl, to Leah, to be her waiting-woman.


References

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Basic English, produced by Mr C. K. Ogden of the Orthological Institute - public domain