Concubine
לְחֵנָהStrong’s H3904lechenah (le-che-nah)
Appears in 3 verses of the Old Testament
In short
Lechenah is the Aramaic word usually translated “concubines his” and “concubines your”. It appears in 3 verses of the Old Testament.
“Belshazzar, whiles he tasted the wine, commanded to bring the golden and silver vessels which his father Nebuchadnezzar had taken out of the temple which was in Jerusalem; that the king, and his princes, his wives, and his concubines, might drink therein.”
Meaning
- Concubine
How it's translated
- and concubines his 2
- and concubines your 1
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- Daniel 3
1 book in all.
Related words
Explore in Scripture
- Daniel 5:3In contextThen they brought the golden vessels that were taken out of the temple of the house of God which was at Jerusalem; and the king, and his princes, his wives, and his concubines, drank in them.
- Daniel 5:23In contextBut hast lifted up thyself against the Lord of heaven; and they have brought the vessels of his house before thee, and thou, and thy lords, thy wives, and thy concubines, have drunk wine in them; and thou hast praised the gods of silver, and gold, of brass, iron, wood, and stone, which see not, nor hear, nor know: and the God in whose hand thy breath is, and whose are all thy ways, hast thou not glorified:
Aramaic dictionary
לְחֵנָה lechenah · concubine
concubine
From STEPBible’s Hebrew lexicon (based on Brown-Driver-Briggs).
Webster's 1828 Dictionary
How the English word “concubine” was understood when the King James Version was still the common Bible of English readers.
CONCUBINE, noun
[Latin, to lie together, to lie down.]
- A woman who cohabits with a man, without the authority of a legal marriage; a woman kept for lewd purposes; a kept mistress.
- A wife of inferior condition; a lawful wife, but not united to the man by the usual ceremonies, and of inferior condition.
Noah Webster, An American Dictionary of the English Language (1828). Verse references are checked against the KJV. Read the full entry.
Verses are from the King James Version. Word meanings come from the original Aramaic, not from any one translation.