Word Study · Strong's H2153 · Hebrew
זִלְפָּה
Zilpah
zil-paw
Strong's 1890 spelling: Zilpâh
“Zilpah, Leah's maid”
Strong's Dictionary · 1890 · public domain
Zilpah, Leah's maid
Rendered in the KJV as
Zilpah.
- 7occurrencesin the Old Testament
- 1 of 39Old Testament bookswhere the word stands
- 5inflected formsdistinct spellings
Across 7 occurrences
The word itself
Inflected forms · 5
- זִלְפָּ֖ה2
- זִלְפָּ֛ה2
- זִלְפָּ֣ה1
- זִלְפָּה֙1
- זִלְפָּ֔ה1
How it is rendered · 1
- Zilpah7
The sense the word carries at each spot — how the translators read it there, not a fixed translation.
How it parses · 1
- proper noun (a name)7
Show the grammar codes as tagged
- HNpf · 7
All 7, in canonical order
The ledger of occurrences
Genesis7 occurrences
- Genesis 29:24זִלְפָּ֖הzilpahproper noun (a name)And Laban gave his servant girl Zilpah to his daughter Leah as her maidservant.here: Zilpah
- Genesis 30:9זִלְפָּ֣הzilpahproper noun (a name)When Leah saw that she had stopped having children, she gave her servant Zilpah to Jacob as a wife.here: Zilpah
- Genesis 30:10זִלְפָּ֛הzilpahproper noun (a name)And Leah’s servant Zilpah bore Jacob a son.here: Zilpah
- Genesis 30:12זִלְפָּה֙zilpahproper noun (a name)When Leah’s servant Zilpah bore Jacob a second son,here: Zilpah
- Genesis 35:26זִלְפָּ֛הzilpahproper noun (a name)And the sons of Leah’s maidservant Zilpah were Gad and Asher. These are the sons of Jacob, who were born to him in Paddan-aram.here: Zilpah
- Genesis 37:2זִלְפָּ֖הzilpahproper 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: Zilpah
- Genesis 46:18זִלְפָּ֔הzilpahproper noun (a name)These are the sons of Jacob born to Zilpah—whom Laban gave to his daughter Leah—sixteen in all.here: Zilpah