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# בִּלְהָה

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H1090

**Bilhah** — used 10 times in the Hebrew Bible. Below: its meanings with their sources, MACULA's glosses, and 2 verses word for word and in JPS 1917.

## Meaning

### OpenScriptures lexical index

Bilhah [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1489/1090/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

בִּלְהָה: n.pr.f. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1489/1090/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** n.pr.f. (etym. dub.) handmaid of Rachel, concubine of Jacob Gn 29:29; 30:3, 4, 5, 7; 35:22, 25 (sons Dan & Naphtali) 37:2 (prob. gloss, Ol) 46:25; 1 Ch 7:13.

Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 10 of its verses cited, 0 words shared with the glosses, lists its Strong's number (3 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 0 words shared with the BDB entry, 1 with the glosses (3 candidates)

## Glosses

MACULA's English glosses of the word in the text, with how often each is used: Bilhah (6); of Bilhah (4).

## In the verses

[Genesis 30:5](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/GEN.30.5/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/GEN.30.5/#tree)

וַתַּ֣הַר בִּלְהָ֔ה וַתֵּ֥לֶד לְיַעֲקֹ֖ב בֵּֽן׃

*Word for word:* and she.conceived Bilhah and she.bore to Jacob a.son

*JPS 1917:* And Bilhah conceived, and bore Jacob a son.

[Genesis 35:25](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/GEN.35.25/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/GEN.35.25/#tree)

וּבְנֵ֤י בִלְהָה֙ שִׁפְחַ֣ת רָחֵ֔ל דָּ֖ן וְנַפְתָּלִֽי׃

*Word for word:* and the.sons of.Bilhah the.maidservant of.Rachel Dan and Naphtali

*JPS 1917:* and the sons of Bilhah, Rachel's handmaid: Dan and Naphtali;

## On Mova

- [This word in the Tanakh dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/1090.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1489/1090/): every English meaning parsed by Mova, with its dependency tree and frames.

Sources. The words, their counts, glosses and the word-for-word renderings: MACULA Hebrew (the Westminster Leningrad Codex; Clear Bible, CC BY 4.0). Meanings: the OpenScriptures lexical index (CC BY 4.0), Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906 and Jastrow 1903 (public domain, via Sefaria); Targum Onkelos from Sefaria (public domain). Translation: JPS 1917 (public domain, from eBible.org).