Concubine
שִׁדָּהStrong’s H7705shiddah (shid-dah)
Appears in 1 verse of the Old Testament
In short
Shiddah is the Hebrew word usually translated “breast” and “breasts”. It appears in 1 verse of the Old Testament.
“I gathered me also silver and gold, and the peculiar treasure of kings and of the provinces: I gat me men singers and women singers, and the delights of the sons of men, as musical instruments, and that of all sorts.”
Meaning
- Concubine, wife, haremmeaning unknown
How it's translated
- breast 1
- and breasts 1
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- Ecclesiastes 1
1 book in all.
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Hebrew dictionary
שִׁדָּה shiddah · concubine
1) concubine, wife, harem 1a) meaning unknown
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.