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title: בִּלְהָה — Bilhah · The Tanakh dictionary
description: בִּלְהָה (1090), a word of Biblical Hebrew, used 10 times: Bilhah. BDB 1906: n.pr.f. With 2 verses in Hebrew, word for word and JPS 1917.
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# בִּלְהָה

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«בִּלְהָה» in the Tanakh dictionary: **Bilhah** — how often it is used, MACULA's glosses, its meanings in the printed dictionaries and why they were chosen, and 2 verses in layers.

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**Used:** 10 times · **Key:** 1090 · **BDB:** בִּלְהָה

### Glosses

Bilhah (6); of.Bilhah (4)

### Meaning (OSHB)

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

### Meaning (BDB 1906)

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

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**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.

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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)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every English meaning of «בִּלְהָה» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1489/1090/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.

### In the verses

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

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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.

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

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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;

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