Zilpah

Easton's Bible Dictionary (1897)

Drooping, Leah’s handmaid, and the mother of Gad and Asher (Gen. 30:9-13).

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ISBE

zil'-pa (zilpah, meaning uncertain; Zelpha): The ancestress of Gad and Asher ( Ge 30:10 , 12 ; 35:26 ; 46:18 ), a slave girl of Leah's, given her by Laban ( Ge 29:24 ; 30:9 ). In Eze 48 the Zilpah tribes have the 5th division toward the South of Palestine and the 6th to the North, a slightly more favorable position than that of the Bilhah tribes.

Smith's Bible Dictionary (1863)

(a trickling), a Syrian given by Laban to his daughter Leah as an attendant, (Genesis 29:24) and by Leah to Jacob as a concubine. She was the mother of Gad and Asher. (Genesis 30:9-13; 35:26; 37:2; 46:18) (B.C. 1753.)

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