Bilhah
Americannoun
Example Sentences
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“We know the names of the four: Venus, Bilhah, Titus, and Juba, two women and two men.”
From Los Angeles Times
Rep. John Lewis of Georgia, the late civil rights leader, to unveil a plaque at Harvard’s Wadsworth House that commemorates four enslaved people — named Titus, Venus, Juba and Bilhah — who lived there in the 18th century and worked for two Harvard presidents.
From Washington Post
Because of her infertility, she offers him a proxy, Bilhah, her female slave or “handmaid.”
From Salon
Bilhah gets pregnant and produces a son, Rachel’s son by the rules governing their lives.
From Salon
After Bilhah bears a second baby—as you may have guessed, also a son—Rachel crows, “With mighty wrestlings I have wrestled with my sister, and I have indeed prevailed!”
From Salon
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