Dictionaries :: Zilpah

Easton's Bible Dictionary

Zilpah:

drooping, Leah's handmaid, and the mother of Gad and Asher (Gen 30:9-13).

Hitchcock's Bible Names Dictionary

Zilpah:

distillation from the mouth

International Standard Bible Encyclopaedia

Zilpah:

zil'-pa (zilpah, meaning uncertain; Zelpha): The ancestress of Gad and Asher (Ge 30:10,12; 35:26; 46:18), a slave girl of Leah's, given her by Laban (Ge 29:24; 30:9). In Eze 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.

Nave's Topical Bible

Zilpah: Leah's Handmaiden

Gen 29:24

Zilpah: Mother of Gad and Asher by Jacob

Gen 30:9-13; 35:26; 37:2; 46:18

Smith's Bible Dictionary

Zilpah:

(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)