זִלְפָּה
zilpa · Zilpah
Hebrew word · Strong’s number H2153 · appears 7 times in the Bible
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zilpa (זִלְפָּה) is a Hebrew word of the Bible that means “Zilpah”.
Leah's slave, given to Jacob; mother of Gad and Asher.
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zil·pa
Approximate pronunciation. Vowels sound as in Spanish (a as in father, e as in bed, i as in machine, o as in note, u as in rule); the syllable in bold is stressed. The voice is your device's.
Where it appears
- Genesis 29:24
Laban gave her Zilpah his slave woman, to Leah his daughter as a slave woman.
- Genesis 30:9
Leah saw that she had stopped bearing, and she took Zilpah her slave woman and gave her to Jacob as a wife.
- Genesis 30:10
Zilpah, Leah’s slave woman, bore Jacob a son.
- Genesis 30:12
Zilpah, Leah’s slave woman, bore Jacob a second son.
- Genesis 35:26
The sons of Zilpah, Leah’s slave woman: Gad and Asher. These are the sons of Jacob who were born to him in Paddan-aram.
- Genesis 37:2
These are the generations of Jacob. Joseph, being seventeen years old, was shepherding the flock with his brothers; he was a young man with the sons of Bilhah and with the sons of Zilpah, his father’s wives. And Joseph brought bad reports about them to their father.
- Genesis 46:18
These are the sons of Zilpah, whom Laban gave to Leah his daughter; and she bore these to Jacob, sixteen persons.