Word Study · Strong's H1090 · Hebrew
בִּלְהָה
Bilhah
bil-haw'
Strong's 1890 spelling: Bilhâh
“Bilhah, the name of one of Jacob's concubines”
Strong's Dictionary · 1890 · public domain
Bilhah, the name of one of Jacob's concubines; also of a place in Palestine
Rendered in the KJV as
Bilhah.
- 11occurrencesin the Old Testament
- 2 of 39Old Testament bookswhere the word stands
- 10inflected formsdistinct spellings
Across 11 occurrences
The word itself
Inflected forms · 10
- בִּלְהָ֖ה2
- בִלְהָ֖ה1
- בִלְהָה֙1
- בִלְהָ֛ה1
- בִלְהָ֔ה1
- בִּלְהָ֥ה1
- בִּלְהָ֔ה1
- בִּלְהָ֖ה֙1
- בִלְהָֽה׃ פ1
- וּבְבִלְהָ֥ה1
How it is rendered · 2
- Bilhah10
- and in Bilhah1
The sense the word carries at each spot — how the translators read it there, not a fixed translation.
How it parses · 2
- proper noun (a name)10
- conjunction (“and”) + preposition + proper noun (a name)1
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- HNpf · 10
- HC/R/Npl · 1
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The ledger of occurrences
Where this word lives
Genesis carries the most and opens below; every other book is one click.
Genesis9 occurrences
- Genesis 29:29בִּלְהָ֖הbilhahproper noun (a name)Laban also gave his servant girl Bilhah to his daughter Rachel as her maidservant.here: Bilhah
- Genesis 30:3בִלְהָ֖הvilhahproper noun (a name)Then she said, “Here is my maidservant Bilhah. Sleep with her, that she may bear children for me, so that through her I too can build a family.”here: Bilhah
- Genesis 30:4בִּלְהָ֥הbilhahproper noun (a name)So Rachel gave Jacob her servant Bilhah as a wife, and he slept with her,here: Bilhah
- Genesis 30:5בִּלְהָ֔הbilhahproper noun (a name)and Bilhah conceived and bore him a son.here: Bilhah
- Genesis 30:7בִּלְהָ֖הbilhahproper noun (a name)And Rachel’s servant Bilhah conceived again and bore Jacob a second son.here: Bilhah
- Genesis 35:22בִּלְהָ֖ה֙bilhahproper noun (a name)While Israel was living in that region, Reuben went in and slept with his father’s concubine Bilhah, and Israel heard about it. Jacob had twelve sons:here: Bilhah
- Genesis 35:25בִלְהָה֙vilhahproper noun (a name)The sons of Rachel’s maidservant Bilhah were Dan and Naphtali.here: Bilhah
- Genesis 37:2בִלְהָ֛הvilhahproper noun (a name)This is the account of Jacob. When Joseph was seventeen years old, he was tending the flock with his brothers, the sons of his father’s wives Bilhah and Zilpah, and he brought their father a bad report about them.here: Bilhah
- Genesis 46:25בִלְהָ֔הvilhahproper noun (a name)These are the sons of Jacob born to Bilhah, whom Laban gave to his daughter Rachel—seven in all.here: Bilhah