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Zilpah

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Easton's 1897Smith's 1863ISBE 19159 verse references

Easton's 1897

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

Easton's Bible Dictionary (1897) · public domain

Smith's 1863

(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.)

Smith's Bible Dictionary (1863) · public domain

ISBE 1915

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.

International Standard Bible Encyclopedia (1915) · public domain

In Scripture

Genesis 30:9–13Genesis 29:24Genesis 35:26Genesis 37:2Genesis 46:18Genesis 30:10Genesis 30:12Genesis 30:9Ezekiel 48
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