Concubine
פִּלֶ֫גֶשׁStrong’s H6370pilegesh (pi-le-gesh)
Appears in 35 verses of the Old Testament
In short
Pilegesh is the Hebrew word usually translated “concubine of”, “concubine his” and “concubines”. It appears in 35 verses of the Old Testament.
“And his concubine, whose name was Reumah, she bare also Tebah, and Gaham, and Thahash, and Maachah.”
Meaning
- Concubine, paramourconcubine · paramour
How it's translated
- concubine of 6
- and concubine his 5
- concubines 5
- a concubine 3
- concubine his 3
- and concubines 3
- on concubine his 2
- concubines of 2
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- Judges 12
- 2 Samuel 8
- 1 Chronicles 5
- Genesis 4
- Song of Solomon 2
- 1 Kings 1
9 books in all.
Related words
Explore in Scripture
- Genesis 25:6But unto the sons of the concubines, which Abraham had, Abraham gave gifts, and sent them away from Isaac his son, while he yet lived, eastward, unto the east country.
- Genesis 35:22And it came to pass, when Israel dwelt in that land, that Reuben went and lay with Bilhah his father’s concubine: and Israel heard it. Now the sons of Jacob were twelve:
- Genesis 36:12And Timna was concubine to Eliphaz Esau’s son; and she bare to Eliphaz Amalek: these were the sons of Adah Esau’s wife.
- Judges 8:31And his concubine that was in Shechem, she also bare him a son, whose name he called Abimelech.
- Judges 19:1And it came to pass in those days, when there was no king in Israel, that there was a certain Levite sojourning on the side of mount Ephraim, who took to him a concubine out of Bethlehemjudah.
- Judges 19:2And his concubine played the whore against him, and went away from him unto her father’s house to Bethlehemjudah, and was there four whole months.
Hebrew dictionary
פִּלֶ֫גֶשׁ pilegesh · concubine
1) concubine, paramour 1a) concubine 1b) paramour
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 Hebrew, not from any one translation.