Bilhah

2 definitions found

From Easton's 1897 Bible Dictionary [easton]:

  Bilhah
     faltering; bashful, Rachel's handmaid, whom she gave to Jacob
     (Gen. 29:29). She was the mother of Dan and Naphtali (Gen.
     30:3-8). Reuben was cursed by his father for committing adultry
     with her (35:22; 49:4). He was deprived of the birth-right,
     which was given to the sons of Joseph.


     

From Hitchcock's Bible Names Dictionary (late 1800's) [hitchcock]:

  Bilhah, Bilhan, who is old or confused