Zilpah

Gender: Female

Years: -1753 - -1706

Dictionary Text: Drooping, Leah’s handmaid, and the mother of Gad and Asher.

Family Members

• Children:
  • Gad
  • Asher

Verses

• Genesis 29:24: And Laban gave unto his daughter Leah Zilpah his maid for an handmaid.
• Genesis 30:9: When Leah saw that she had left bearing, she took Zilpah her maid, and gave her Jacob to wife.
• Genesis 35:26: And the sons of Zilpah, Leah’s handmaid; Gad, and Asher: these are the sons of Jacob, which were born to him in Padanaram.
• Genesis 37:2: These are the generations of Jacob. Joseph, being seventeen years old, was feeding the flock with his brethren; and the lad was with the sons of Bilhah, and with the sons of Zilpah, his father’s wives: and Joseph brought unto his father their evil report.
• Genesis 46:18: These are the sons of Zilpah, whom Laban gave to Leah his daughter, and these she bare unto Jacob, even sixteen souls.
• Genesis 30:12: And Zilpah Leah’s maid bare Jacob a second son.
• Genesis 30:10: And Zilpah Leah’s maid bare Jacob a son.