Bilhah

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Hitchcock's Bible Names Dictionary


BILHAH.—1. A slave-girl given to Rachel by Laban (Gen_29:29 (P [Note: Priestly Narrative.] )), and by her to Jacob as a concubine (Gen_30:3-4 (JE [Note: Jewish Encyclopedia.] )); the mother of Dan and Naphtali (Gen_30:4; Gen_30:7 (JE [Note: Jewish Encyclopedia.] ) Gen_35:25 (P [Note: Priestly Narrative.] ) Gen_46:25 (R [Note: Redactor.] ), 1Ch_7:13). She was guilty of incest with Reuben (Gen_35:22 (P [Note: Priestly Narrative.] )). The etymology is uncertain. These narratives and genealogies probably embody early traditions as to the origin and mutual relations of the tribes, rather than personal history. Tribes are traced to a concubine ancestress, because they were’ a late accession to Israel. 2. A Simeonite city (1Ch_4:29) = Baalah (Jos_15:29), Balah (Jos_19:3), and, according to some, Baalath (Jos_19:44, 1Ki_9:18, 2Ch_8:6). Site uncertain.
Hastings' Dictionary of the Bible
Edited by James Hastings, D.D. Published in 1909


1. Rachel's handmaid (Gen_29:29). Rachel having no children gave Bilhah to her husband Jacob, who by the latter had two sons, Dan and Naphtali (Gen_30:1-8; Gen_35:25; Gen_46:25; 1Ch_7:13). Reuben, Jacob's firstborn, defiled her, and was therefore deprived of the birthright, which was given to the sons of Joseph (Gen_35:22; Gen_49:4; 1Ch_5:1). Blunt says, so vivid was the desire for the promised Redeemer, that "the wife provoked, instead of resenting, the faithlessness of her husband, the mother taught her own child deceit, daughters deliberately worked their own and their fathers' shame, and the daughter-in-law courted the incestuous bed, and to be childless was a by-word" (Gen_16:2; Gen_30:3; Gen_30:9; Gen_25:23; Gen_27:13; Gen_19:31; Gen_38:14).
2. A Simeonite town (1Ch_4:29), named also Baalah or Balah (Jos_19:3).
Fausset's Bible Dictionary
By Andrew Robert Fausset, co-Author of Jamieson, Fausset and Brown's 1888.


Bil'hah. (timid, bashful). Handmaid of Rachel, Gen_29:29, and concubine of Jacob, to whom she bore Dan and Naphtali. Gen_30:3-8; Gen_35:25; Gen_46:25; 1Ch_7:13. (B.C 53).
Smith's Bible Dictionary
By Dr. William Smith.Published in 1863


Rachel's handmaid, given by her to Jacob her husband, as a concubinary wife, that, through her she might have a son, Gen_30:3-4, &c. See BARRENNESS.
Biblical and Theological Dictionary by Richard Watson
PRINTER 1849.


Bil?hah, the handmaid whom the childless Rachel bestowed upon her husband Jacob, that through her she might have children. Bilhah became the mother of Dan and Naphtali (Gen_30:1-8).
The Popular Cyclopedia of Biblical Literature
by John Kitto.


Bilhah
(Heb. Bilhah', בַּלְהָה, faltering, i.e. perh. bashful),' the name of a woman and of a place.
1. (Sept. Βαλλά) The handmaid (Gen_29:29) whom the childless Rachel bestowed as a concubine upon her husband Jacob, that through her she might have children. B.C. 191t. Bilhah thus became the mother of Dan and Naphtali (Gen_30:3-8; Gen_35:25; Gen_46:25; 1Ch_7:13). Her stepson Reuben afterward lay with her (Gen_35:22), B.C. cir. 1890, and thus incurred his father's dying reproof (Gen_49:4).
2. (Sept. Βαλαά.) A place belonging to the tribe of Simeon (1Ch_4:29), called BALAH SEE BALAH (q.v.) in Jos_19:3; and it seems to be the same which is called BAALAH in Jos_15:29.



CYCLOPEDIA OF BIBLICAL, THEOLOGICAL AND ECCLESIASTICAL
press 1895.





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