Genesis 30:12
Strong's Lexicon
When Leah’s
לֵאָ֔ה (lê·’āh)
Noun - proper - feminine singular
Strong's Hebrew 3812: Leah = 'weary' 1) daughter of Laban, first wife of Jacob, and mother of Reuben, Simeon, Levi, Judah, Issachar, Zebulun, and Dinah

servant
שִׁפְחַ֣ת (šip̄·ḥaṯ)
Noun - feminine singular construct
Strong's Hebrew 8198: 1) maid, maid-servant, slavegirl 1a) maid, maid-servant (as belonging to a mistress) 1b) of address, speaker, humility (fig)

Zilpah
זִלְפָּה֙ (zil·pāh)
Noun - proper - feminine singular
Strong's Hebrew 2153: Zilpah = 'a trickling' 1) the Syrian given by Laban to Leah as a handmaid, a concubine of Jacob, mother of Asher and Gad

bore
וַתֵּ֗לֶד (wat·tê·leḏ)
Conjunctive waw | Verb - Qal - Consecutive imperfect - third person feminine singular
Strong's Hebrew 3205: 1) to bear, bringforth, beget, gender, travail 1a) (Qal) 1a1) to bear, bring forth 1a1a) of child birth 1a1b) of distress (simile) 1a1c) of wicked (behaviour) 1a2) to beget 1b) (Niphal) to be born 1c) (Piel) 1c1) to cause or help to bring forth 1c2) to assist or tend as a midwife 1c3) midwife (participle) 1d) (Pual) to be born 1e) (Hiphil) 1e1) to beget (a child) 1e2) to bear (fig. -of wicked bringing forth iniquity) 1f) (Hophal) day of birth, birthday (infinitive) 1g) (Hithpael) to declare one's birth (pedigree)

Jacob
לְיַעֲקֹֽב׃ (lə·ya·‘ă·qōḇ)
Preposition-l | Noun - proper - masculine singular
Strong's Hebrew 3290: Jacob = 'heel holder' or 'supplanter' 1) son of Isaac, grandson of Abraham, and father of the 12 patriarchs of the tribes of Israel

a second
שֵׁנִ֖י (šê·nî)
Number - ordinal masculine singular
Strong's Hebrew 8145: 1) second 1a) second (the ordinal number) 1b) again (a second time) 1c) another, other (something as distinct from something else)

son,
בֵּ֥ן (bên)
Noun - masculine singular
Strong's Hebrew 1121: 1) son, grandson, child, member of a group 1a) son, male child 1b) grandson 1c) children (pl. - male and female) 1d) youth, young men (pl.) 1e) young (of animals) 1f) sons (as characterisation, i.e. sons of injustice [for un- righteous men] or sons of God [for angels] 1g) people (of a nation) (pl.) 1h) of lifeless things, i.e. sparks, stars, arrows (fig.) 1i) a member of a guild, order, class

Parallel Strong's
Berean Study Bible
When Leah’s servant Zilpah bore Jacob a second son,

Young's Literal Translation
And Zilpah, Leah’s maid-servant, beareth a second son to Jacob,

Holman Christian Standard Bible
When Leah’s slave Zilpah bore Jacob a second son,

New American Standard Bible
Leah's maid Zilpah bore Jacob a second son.

King James Bible
And Zilpah Leah's maid bare Jacob a second son.
Parallel Verses
New International Version
Leah's servant Zilpah bore Jacob a second son.

New Living Translation
Then Zilpah gave Jacob a second son.

English Standard Version
Leah’s servant Zilpah bore Jacob a second son.

New American Standard Bible
Leah's maid Zilpah bore Jacob a second son.

King James Bible
And Zilpah Leah's maid bare Jacob a second son.

Holman Christian Standard Bible
When Leah's slave Zilpah bore Jacob a second son,

International Standard Version
Later, Leah's servant Zilpah bore a second son for Jacob.

NET Bible
Then Leah's servant Zilpah gave Jacob another son.

American Standard Version
And Zilpah Leah's handmaid bare Jacob a second son.

English Revised Version
And Zilpah Leah's handmaid bare Jacob a second son.

Young's Literal Translation
And Zilpah, Leah's maid-servant, beareth a second son to Jacob,
















Cross References
Genesis 30:11
And Leah said, A troop cometh: and she called his name Gad.

Genesis 30:13
And Leah said, Happy am I, for the daughters will call me blessed: and she called his name Asher.

Genesis 1:1
In the beginning God created the heaven and the earth.

Genesis 30:10
And Zilpah Leah's maid bare Jacob a son.

Genesis 30:9
When Leah saw that she had left bearing, she took Zilpah her maid, and gave her Jacob to wife.

Genesis 30:14
And Reuben went in the days of wheat harvest, and found mandrakes in the field, and brought them unto his mother Leah. Then Rachel said to Leah, Give me, I pray thee, of thy son's mandrakes.

Genesis 30:15
And she said unto her, Is it a small matter that thou hast taken my husband? and wouldest thou take away my son's mandrakes also? And Rachel said, Therefore he shall lie with thee to night for thy son's mandrakes.
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