Hebrew proper noun (a person) · H1090
בִּלְהָה
Bilhahbil-haw'
Bilhah; Bilhah
11 uses in the Hebrew text, one for each word STEP Bible has tagged with this key
Concordance spelling: Bilhâh
Word page · Part of the concordance, one page for every word of the Hebrew and Greek text. Strong's H1090is this word's number in James Strong's 1890 index of the King James Bible.
- 2 of 39Old Testament books
- 10spellings
- 2meanings
The definition in full
Strong's key (1890) · H1090
Bilhah, the name of one of Jacob's concubines; also of a place in Palestine
The King James renders it: Bilhah.
James Strong, The Exhaustive Concordance of the Bible (1890), public domain. Strong indexed the King James text, and this site quotes his entry as that index.
Summary
Bilhah is rendered "Bilhah; Bilhah". It stands 11 times in the Hebrew text, across two books.
- Nine of the uses stand in Genesis, more than in any other book.
- The lexicon lists two meanings for it, beginning with "Bilhah".
- Its first use in canonical order opens the ledger below.Genesis 29:29Laban also gave his servant girl Bilhah to his daughter Rachel as her maidservant.
- The Greek text spells it ten different ways.
The first use
Laban also gave his servant girl Bilhah to his daughter Rachel as her maidservant.
Genesis 29:29בִּלְהָ֖ה
The first use, in the order of the Old Testament's books.
Where the word stands
Nine of the word's eleven uses are in Genesis.
What the word means
The word carries two meanings: Bilhah, and Bilhah.
Each meaning, and the words it is translated by
| Meaning | Tagged as | Where |
|---|---|---|
| BilhahStrong's entry A | Tagged aslisted under the table | WhereGenesis 29:29Laban also gave his servant girl Bilhah to his daughter Rachel as her maidservant. |
| BilhahStrong's entry B | Tagged aslisted under the table | Wherein the ledger below |
How the Greek text is glossed, word by word
- Bilhah10
- and in Bilhah1
The words built on the same word-part
Each word below begins with the same letters this one begins with. A shared word-part shows a family. It does not settle what any one of them means, so each word carries its own uses on its own page. Scholars call that shared part the stem.
| Word | Written | Meaning | Uses |
|---|---|---|---|
| בִּלְתִּי | bilti | lest | Uses112 |
| בִּלְעֲדֵי | bilade | beside | Uses17 |
The words it stands beside
All 11, in canonical order
Every use, in order
Every use, grouped by book, with its verse.
10 spellings and their grammar
STEP Bible tags every word of the Hebrew and Greek text with its spelling and its grammar. Both lists below count the rows printed underneath, written out in English, with the code beside each one as it was tagged.
How it is spelled
- בִּלְהָ֖ה2
- בִלְהָ֖ה1
- בִלְהָה֙1
- בִלְהָ֛ה1
- בִלְהָ֔ה1
- בִּלְהָ֥ה1
- בִּלְהָ֔ה1
- בִּלְהָ֖ה֙1
- בִלְהָֽה׃ פ1
- וּבְבִלְהָ֥ה1
The grammar of each form
- proper noun (a name)10HNpf
- conjunction (“and”) + preposition + proper noun (a name)1HC/R/Npl
Genesis
nine uses
Laban also gave his servant girl Bilhah to his daughter Rachel as her maidservant.
- בִּלְהָ֖הbilhahproper noun (a name)tagged: Bilhah
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.”
- בִלְהָ֖הvilhahproper noun (a name)tagged: Bilhah
So Rachel gave Jacob her servant Bilhah as a wife, and he slept with her,
- בִּלְהָ֥הbilhahproper noun (a name)tagged: Bilhah
and Bilhah conceived and bore him a son.
- בִּלְהָ֔הbilhahproper noun (a name)tagged: Bilhah
And Rachel’s servant Bilhah conceived again and bore Jacob a second son.
- בִּלְהָ֖הbilhahproper noun (a name)tagged: Bilhah
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:
- בִּלְהָ֖ה֙bilhahproper noun (a name)tagged: Bilhah
The sons of Rachel’s maidservant Bilhah were Dan and Naphtali.
- בִלְהָה֙vilhahproper noun (a name)tagged: Bilhah
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.
- בִלְהָ֛הvilhahproper noun (a name)tagged: Bilhah
These are the sons of Jacob born to Bilhah, whom Laban gave to his daughter Rachel—seven in all.
- בִלְהָ֔הvilhahproper noun (a name)tagged: Bilhah
1 Chronicles
two uses
Bilhah, Ezem, Tolad,
- וּבְבִלְהָ֥הuvevilhahconjunction (“and”) + preposition + proper noun (a name)tagged: and in Bilhah
The sons of Naphtali: Jahziel, Guni, Jezer, and Shallum—the descendants of Bilhah.
- בִלְהָֽה׃ פvilhahproper noun (a name)tagged: Bilhah
Where it leads
How the numbers are counted
Every count on this page comes from STEP Bible's tagged Hebrew and Greek text, the same text the ledger prints. A use is counted once each time the tagging marks a word with this key.
Spellings are counted as the Greek text spells them, with the sentence's own punctuation taken off the word first, so a form that ends a clause is not counted as a second spelling.
The words it stands beside are the nouns, verbs and adjectives immediately before or after it, counted in every verse where the word stands. The article, the conjunctions and the prepositions are left out, because they stand beside every word.
The family is read from the lexicon by the stem the two words share, with the accents off, and a person or a place named on the stem is left out.