Genesis 30:3
Parallel Strong's
Berean Study Bible
Then she said, “Here is my maidservant Bilhah. Sleep with her, that she may bear children for me, so that through her I too can build a family.”

Young's Literal Translation
And she saith, ‘Lo, my handmaid Bilhah, go in unto her, and she doth bear on my knees, and I am built up, even I, from her;’

King James Bible
And she said, Behold my maid Bilhah, go in unto her; and she shall bear upon my knees, that I may also have children by her.

Hebrew
Then she said,
וַתֹּ֕אמֶר (wat·tō·mer)
Conjunctive waw | Verb - Qal - Consecutive imperfect - third person feminine singular
Strong's 559: To utter, say

“Here
הִנֵּ֛ה (hin·nêh)
Interjection
Strong's 2009: Lo! behold!

is my maidservant
אֲמָתִ֥י (’ă·mā·ṯî)
Noun - feminine singular construct | first person common singular
Strong's 519: A maidservant, female slave

Bilhah.
בִלְהָ֖ה (ḇil·hāh)
Noun - proper - feminine singular
Strong's 1090: Bilhah -- a concubine of Jacob

Sleep with
בֹּ֣א (bō)
Verb - Qal - Imperative - masculine singular
Strong's 935: To come in, come, go in, go

her,
אֵלֶ֑יהָ (’ê·le·hā)
Preposition | third person feminine singular
Strong's 413: Near, with, among, to

and she will bear children
וְתֵלֵד֙ (wə·ṯê·lêḏ)
Conjunctive waw | Verb - Qal - Conjunctive imperfect - third person feminine singular
Strong's 3205: To bear young, to beget, medically, to act as midwife, to show lineage

[for me],
בִּרְכַּ֔י (bir·kay)
Noun - fdc | first person common singular
Strong's 1290: The knee

so that through her
מִמֶּֽנָּה׃ (mim·men·nāh)
Preposition | third person feminine singular
Strong's 4480: A part of, from, out of

I
אָנֹכִ֖י (’ā·nō·ḵî)
Pronoun - first person common singular
Strong's 595: I

too
גַם־ (ḡam-)
Conjunction
Strong's 1571: Assemblage, also, even, yea, though, both, and

can build a family.”
וְאִבָּנֶ֥ה (wə·’ib·bā·neh)
Conjunctive waw | Verb - Nifal - Conjunctive imperfect Cohortative if contextual - first person common singular
Strong's 1129: To build

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                           
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