Zilpah
Mentioned 1752–1705 BC traditional (Jones)
Drooping, Leah’s handmaid, and the mother of Gad and Asher (Gen. 30:9-13).
From Easton’s Bible Dictionary (1897).
- Mentioned in the era of the Patriarchs, 1996–1707 BC.
- Named in the same verses as Jacob, Leah, Laban, Asher, Bilhah, Gad, and Joseph.
Computed from the data. Years are traditional (Jones).
Family
Two generations up and the children; a button shows the grandchildren. Gold lines join partners; grey lines run from parent to child; a dotted line marks a parent named in the text but not by descent.
The tree is wider than the screen; scroll it sideways.
Stories
2 events in which Zilpah takes part, in order of the traditional chronology. Years are traditional (Jones).
- 1752 BCBirth of GadGen 30:10-11
- 1751 BCBirth of AsherGen 30:12-13
Places
Places named in the same verses as Zilpah, with the number of verses they share; a larger marker means more. Locations follow OpenBible.info, which grades each identification. A dashed ring on the map marks a region, river, or mountain rather than a town.
- location not graded: Paddan-aram1
Timeline
The strip runs from Creation to AD 100; the shaded part, 1777–1680 BC, is drawn below at a larger scale around these mentions, with 5 contemporaries. Years are traditional (Jones), shown as recorded, not as settled fact.
Mentions
7 tagged verses in 1 book. Select a book to read its verses.
The name in each translation
| Text | Occurrences of each name |
|---|---|
| BSB | Zilpah 7 |
| KJV | Zilpah 7 |
| ASV | Zilpah 7 |
Whole-word, case-sensitive count of the name string (regex \bName\b, so possessives like "Abraham's" count) across the whole Bible text of each translation; this counts the string, not the person, so other people who share the name are included and pronoun references are not. How Begat counts
Every verse
All 7 tagged verses, by book, in canonical order. The Berean Standard Bible is shown; switch to the King James or American Standard Version.
Genesis7 verses
- 29:24
And Laban gave his servant girl Zilpah to his daughter Leah as her maidservant.
- 30:9
When Leah saw that she had stopped having children, she gave her servant Zilpah to Jacob as a wife.
- 30:10
And Leah’s servant Zilpah bore Jacob a son.
- 30:12
When Leah’s servant Zilpah bore Jacob a second son,
- 35:26
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.
- 37:2
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.
- 46:18
These are the sons of Jacob born to Zilpah—whom Laban gave to his daughter Leah—sixteen in all.
Easton’s Bible Dictionary
The full entry, public domain, as printed in 1897.
Drooping, Leah’s handmaid, and the mother of Gad and Asher (Gen. 30:9-13).