Bilhah

Proper noun

Meaning

A handmaid of Rachel and mother of Dan and Naphtali. (biblical character)

A female given name from Hebrew of biblical origin.

Examples

Bilhah was the handmaid of Rachel, the servant whom Laban, Rachel’s father, gave to her at the occasion of Rachel’s marriage to Jacob (Gen. 29:29). Source: Internet

And she said, Behold my maid Bilhah, go in unto her; and she shall bear upon my knees, that I may also have children by her. Source: Internet

Sometime afterward, the sons of Jacob by Leah, Bilhah and Zilpah, were feeding his flocks in Shechem. Source: Internet

Bilhah gave birth to Dan and Naphtali. Source: Internet

It would have been well within Laban’s asserted rights as a slaveholder to use Bilhah sexually, a likelihood that increases with the absence of a conjugal partner for him in the text. Source: Internet

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