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Zilpah

Smith’s Bible Dictionary (1863)

(a trickling), a Syrian given by Laban to his daughter Leah as an attendant, (Genesis 29:24) and by Leah to Jacob as a concubine. She was the mother of Gad and Asher. (Genesis 30:9-13; 35:26; 37:2; 46:18) (B.C. 1753.)

Easton’s Bible Dictionary (1897)

Drooping, Leah’s handmaid, and the mother of Gad and Asher (Gen. 30:9-13).

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