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Zilpah
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Zilpah: NET AVS NIV NRSV NASB TEV
Leah's maid
distillation from the mouth
distillation from the mouth
Hebrew
Strongs #02153: hplz Zilpah
Zilpah = "a trickling"1) the Syrian given by Laban to Leah as a handmaid, a concubine of
Jacob, mother of Asher and Gad
2153 Zilpah zil-paw
from an unused root apparently meaning to trickle, asmyrrh; fragrant dropping; Zilpah, Leah's maid:-Zilpah.
Zilpah [EBD]
drooping, Leah's handmaid, and the mother of Gad and Asher (Gen. 30:9-13).
Zilpah [NAVE]
ZILPAHLeah's handmaid, Gen. 29:24.
Mother of Gad and Asher by Jacob, Gen. 30:9-13; 35:26; 37:2; 46:18.
ZILPAH [SMITH]
(a trickling), a Syrian given by Laban to his daughter Leah as an attendant, (Genesis 29:24) and by Leah to Jacob as a concubine. She was the mother of Gad and Asher. (Genesis 30:9-13; 35:26; 37:2; 46:18) (B.C. 1753.)ZILPAH [ISBE]
ZILPAH - zil'-pa (zilpah, meaning uncertain; Zelpha): The ancestress of Gad and Asher (Gen 30:10,12; 35:26; 46:18), a slave girl of Leah's, given her by Laban (Gen 29:24; 30:9). In Ezek 48 the Zilpah tribes have the 5th division toward the South of Palestine and the 6th to the North, a slightly more favorable position than that of the Bilhah tribes.