Word

בִּלְהָה

Bilhâh · H1090 · Hebrew · proper noun · 11 occurrences

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Person

Bilhahfirst named in Genesis 29:2910 verses

Place

Bilhahfirst named in 1 Chronicles 4:291 verse

Meanings

Bilhah

A woman, slave of Rachel and concubine of Jacob

Examples
Genesis 29:29 Laban also gave his female slave Bilhah to his daughter Rachel as her slave.
Genesis 30:3 Then she said, “Here is my female slave Bilhah: have relations with her that she may give birth on my knees, so that by her I too may obtain a child.”
Genesis 30:4 So she gave him her slave Bilhah as a wife, and Jacob had relations with her.
Bilhah

Town, also known as Balah, Baalah, and Baaloth; territory of Simeon

Examples
1 Chronicles 4:29 in Bilhah, Ezem, Tolad,

How it’s used In 6 roles

Every occurrence, grouped by the words it is grammatically related to.

the word studied the word it goes with

Words describing itAdjectives, demonstratives, participles

1 occurrences in 1 groups

נָתַןto give, to put, to set 1

Named alongside itApposition

6 occurrences in 3 groups

שִׁפְחָהmaidservant, female slave 4
אָמָהfemale servant, maid 1
פִּילֶגֶשׁconcubine 1

What it doesIt is the subject

2 occurrences in 2 groups

הָרָהto conceive 1
יָלַדto bear 1

What is done to itIt is the object

2 occurrences in 1 groups

נָתַןto give, to put, to set 2

After prepositionsPrepositional phrases

2 occurrences in 2 groups

אֵתwith 2
בin/on/with 1

In phrases “… of it”It is the genitive

4 occurrences in 1 groups

בֵּןson 4

When two words share a role, as in “Paul and Barnabas said”, the verse appears under each, so a section’s counts can add up to more than the number of occurrences.

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Semantic domains 2 entries

Names of People003001007: This is the personal name of Rachel's maidservant, given to her as a slave and later taken as a wife by Jacob, as recounted in Genesis 29:29 and 30:3-4.
Names of Locations003001010: The same name is also attested for a Simeonite town, listed among the tribal territories elsewhere in the corpus, fitting this domain's category for place names built on the same personal name.

Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon H1090. Bilhah I. בִּלְהָה proper name, feminine (etymology dubious) handmaid of Rachel,…

H1090. Bilhah
I. בִּלְהָה proper name, feminine (etymology dubious) handmaid of Rachel, concubine of Jacob Gen 29:29; Gen 30:3-4, Gen 30:5, Gen 30:7; Gen 35:22, Gen 35:25 (sons Dan & Naphtali) Gen 37:2 (probably gloss, Ol) Gen 46:25; 1Ch 7:13.
II. בִּלהָה
proper name, of a location a city of Simeon 1Ch 4:29, probably = בַּעֲלָה Jos 15:29, בָּלָה Jos 19:3 compare Di; site dubious

Brown, Driver and Briggs, A Hebrew and English Lexicon of the Old Testament (1906), public domain

Topical studies with this word 2 entries

Names of People10 occurrences Names of Locations1 occurrence

Meanings adapted from the UBS Dictionary of the Greek New Testament, © United Bible Societies, CC BY-SA 4.0 and the UBS Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew (from the Semantic Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew), © United Bible Societies, CC BY-SA 4.0; MACULA Greek Linguistic Datasets, available at https://github.com/Clear-Bible/macula-greek/, licensed CC BY 4.0; MACULA Hebrew Linguistic Datasets © 2022-2024 by Biblica, Inc., CC BY 4.0. Westminster Leningrad Codex (tanach.us). OpenScriptures Hebrew Bible morphology (hb.openscriptures.org), CC BY 4.0.

Sources

eRhema lexical overview, based on the UBS Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew and the UBS Dictionary of the Greek New Testament (© United Bible Societies, CC BY-SA 4.0) and Macula Hebrew and Greek (Clear Bible, CC BY 4.0); released under CC BY-SA 4.0