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.

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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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