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Hebrew wordlink #17157

OSHB Gen 35:25 בִלְהָה (ⱱilhāh) Strongs=1090 a Lemma=‘בִּלְהָה’
contextual word gloss=‘of_Bilhah’ word gloss=‘Bilhāh’
Morphology=Np PoS=proper_noun
Person=Bilhah Year=-1729 TimeSeries=Rachel_dies_giving_birth_to_Benjamin

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Other uses (4) of identical word form בִלְהָה (Morphology=Np PoS=proper_noun) in the Hebrew originals

The word form ‘בִלְהָה’ (Morphology=Np PoS=proper_noun) has 2 different glosses: ‘Bilhah’, ‘of_Bilhah’.

GEN 30:3 contextual word gloss=‘Bilhah’ word gloss=‘Bilhāh’ OSHB GEN 30:3 word 4

OET-LV: 3 And_she/it _said here maidservant _of_my Bilhāh go to_her/it so_that _she _may _bear _children on knees _of_my and_so _that _I _may _be _built _up also I from_her. (GEN_30:3)

OET-RV: 3 Rahel answered, “Listen, here’s my slave Bilhah. Sleep with her so that she’ll have children on my behalf and I’ll also be able to have a family through her.” (GEN 30:3)

GEN 37:2 contextual word gloss=‘of_Bilhah’ word gloss=‘Bilhāh’ OSHB GEN 37:2 word 18

OET-LV: 2 These are_the _accounts _of Yaˊₐqoⱱ Yōşēf/(Joseph) was_a _son _of seven- teen year[s] he _was shepherding with brothers _of_his (in)_flock and_he was_a _youth with the _sons _of Bilhāh and_DOM the _sons _of Zilpah the _wives _of his/its_father and_ Yōşēf _he/it _brought DOM report _of_their bad to father _of_their. (GEN_37:2)

OET-RV: 2 This is the record of his descendants:
¶ When Yosef (Joseph) was seventeen, he was shepherding the flocks with his brothers. He was younger than his brothers who were the sons of his father’s slave wives Bilhah and Zilpah. One day Yosef gave a tell-tale bad report about them to their father. (GEN 37:2)

GEN 46:25 contextual word gloss=‘of_Bilhah’ word gloss=‘Bilhāh’ OSHB GEN 46:25 word 3

OET-LV: 25 These were_the _sons _of Bilhāh whom he _had _given Lāⱱān to_Rāḩēl daughter _of_his and_she/it _gave _birth DOM these to_Yaˊₐqoⱱ/(Jacob) every _of person was_seven. (GEN_46:25)

OET-RV: 25 Those two were both Bilhah’s sons, the slave woman that Lavan had given to his daughter Rahel, and she gave birth to those seven descendants for Yacob. (GEN 46:25)

1 CHR 7:13 contextual word gloss=‘of_Bilhah’ word gloss=‘Bilhāh’ OSHB 1 CHR 7:13 word 8

OET-LV: 13 The _sons _of Naftālī were_Yaḩʦī^ʼēl/(Jahziel) and_Gūnī and_Yēʦer/(Jezer) and_Shallūm the _sons _of Bilhāh. (CH1_7:13)

OET-RV: 13 Naftali’s sons were Yahtsiel, Guni, Yetser, and Shallum. (They were descendants of Yakov’s slave-wife Bilhah.) (CH1 7:13)