Genesis 35:25

Hebrew (Westminster Leningrad Codex)

English Translation

The sons of Bilhah (Rachel's handmaid): Dan and Naphtali.

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בִלְהָה֙

Bilhâh

H1090

“Bilhah”

Noun, Proper

Appears 11× in the Hebrew Bible
First appears at Genesis 29:29

Full BDB Definition

Origin: from H1089

TWOT: None

Bilhah = "troubled" - Rachel's handmaid whom she gave to Jacob as a concubine, mother to two of Jacob's children, Dan and Naphtali (noun proper feminine) - a city in Simeon (noun proper locative)

About this verse

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6: words
6: distinct lemmas
Pentateuch: section

Notable vocabulary

The rarest word here is בִלְהָה֙ Bilhah H1090 — appearing just 11 times in the whole Hebrew Bible.

Shared distinctive vocabulary

בִלְהָה֙ Bilhah H1090 occurs in 11 verses of the Hebrew Bible. Also found in:

Grammatical profile

6 nouns

Hebrew & Septuagint length

In English translation the verse runs 9 words from the Hebrew and 12 from the Septuagint (LXX English) — closely comparable.

A rough comparison of the two English renderings, which tokenize alike — not a word-level alignment.

Word counts can differ between the Hebrew and the Greek without any difference in meaning — e.g. the Hebrew direct-object marker אֵת has no separate Greek word, and Greek often adds the article ὁ.

In the original languages it is 6 Hebrew tokens and 8 Greek tokens — but the two are counted differently (Hebrew bundles its prefixes and suffixes into one token; the Greek is in lemma form), so that isn’t a like-for-like length.

Cross-references

Topical passages linked to Genesis 35:25 in the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge — connected by theme and wording, ordered by reader-vote popularity; previews shown in the World English Bible.

Genesis 30:4–8 She gave him Bilhah her handmaid as wife, and Jacob went in to her.
Genesis 37:2 This is the history of the generations of Jacob. Joseph, being seventeen years old, was feeding the flock with his brothers. He was a boy with the sons of Bilhah and Zilpah, his father's wives. Joseph brought an evil report of them to their father.
Genesis 46:23–25 The son of Dan: Hushim.

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Hebrew and Greek witnesses Masoretic Hebrew ↔ Greek Septuagint

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These are two independent witnesses, not word-aligned to each other, and the Septuagint is shown in lemma (dictionary) form.

Hebrew Genesis 35:25 Masoretic · Westminster Leningrad Codex

וּבְנֵ֤י בִלְהָה֙ שִׁפְחַ֣ת רָחֵ֔ל דָּ֖ן וְנַפְתָּלִֽי

The sons of Bilhah (Rachel's handmaid): Dan and Naphtali.

World English Bible · Public Domain

Greek LXX Genesis 35:25 Septuagint · lemma form

υἱός δέ βαλλα παιδίσκη ραχηλ δαν καί νεφθαλι

And the sons of Balla, the handmaid of Rachel; Dan and Nephthalim.

LXX2012 (modern English Septuagint) · Public Domain

Hebrew: Westminster Leningrad Codex (CC BY 4.0). Greek: Septuagint (public domain); English from LXX2012 (modern English Septuagint) (Public Domain). How the Septuagint differs from the Hebrew →

Targum (Aramaic paraphrase)

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Targum Onkelos Torah (Genesis–Deuteronomy)

וּבְנֵי בִלְהָה אַמְתָא דְרָחֵל דָּן וְנַפְתָּלִי

(no public-domain English translation for this verse)

Targum Onkelos — Aramaic: “Onkelos Genesis” (public domain); “Onkelos Exodus” (public domain); “Onkelos Leviticus” (public domain); “Onkelos Numbers” (public domain); “Onkelos Deuteronomy” (public domain). English: “Sefaria Community Translation” (CC0 1.0 (public-domain dedication)); “J.W. Etheridge. The Targums of Onkelos and Jonathan Ben Uzziel on the Pentateuch. London: Longmans, Green, 1862” (public domain). Text via Sefaria.
Targum Pseudo-Jonathan Torah (Genesis–Deuteronomy)

וּבְנֵי בִלְהָה אַמְתָא דְרָחֵל דָן וְנַפְתָּלִי

The sons of Bilhah, the handmaid of Rahel, Dan and Naphtali;

Targum Pseudo-Jonathan — Aramaic: “Targum Jonathan on Genesis” (public domain); “Targum Jonathan on Exodus” (public domain); “Targum Jonathan on Leviticus” (public domain); “Targum Jonathan on Numbers” (public domain); “Targum Jonathan on Deuteronomy” (public domain). English: “The Targum of Jonathan ben Uzziel, trans. J. W. Etheridge, London, 1862” (public domain). Text via Sefaria.

Commentary

Notes on Genesis 35:25 from classic Christian and Jewish commentators (each source and its license shown beneath its notes). The classic Christian expositions comment on the surrounding passage and are grouped to its opening verse, so a note may address several verses; the Jewish commentaries on the Tanakh (Rashi and others) are per-verse, so they appear only where the commentator wrote on this verse.

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John Gill's Exposition

And the days of Isaac were an hundred and fourscore years. He lived, forty years after he had made his will, and blessed his two sons. Jacob was now one hundred and twenty years of age, being born when his father was sixty; and Joseph was now twenty nine years of age, so that Isaac lived twelve years after the selling of Joseph into Egypt; he was five years older than his father Abraham was when he died.

Genesis 35:29

John Gill's Exposition of the Whole Bible (1746–1763) — public domain (CC PDM 1.0). Text via the HelloAO Bible API.

Lesson kit

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Genesis, in the Pentateuch, opens this verse with 6 words (6 distinct Hebrew lemmas). Its most distinctive word is Bilhâh (“Bilhah”). A historical commentator’s framing appears above. Read the whole chapter for the surrounding context.

Discussion questions

The word Bilhâh carries the sense “Bilhah.” How does it shape the verse?
How does Genesis 29:29, which shares the word «Bilhah», read alongside this verse?
The translations on this page render this verse differently — a whole-verse word diff, not a word-by-word alignment. What might account for the different wordings?

Things to notice

This verse counts 6 Hebrew ↔ 8 Greek words.
These translations choose different wording for 4 words in this verse.
6 distinct Hebrew lemmas span 6 words in this verse.