פִּילֶגֶשׁpîylegesh

concubine

Pronunciation: pee-leh'-ghesh · Hebrew/Aramaic (Old Testament) · H6370

Meanings

1. concubine (Genesis 22:24; Genesis 25:6; Genesis 35:22)

2. either = paramour, or < concubinage (Ezekiel 23:20)

Where it appears

Appears 37 times in the Bible.

  • Genesis 22:24 Nahor had four other children from his concubine Reumah. Their names were Tebah, Gaham, Tahash, and Maacah.
  • Genesis 25:6 But before he died, he gave gifts to the sons of his concubines and sent them off to a land in the east, away from Isaac.
  • Genesis 35:22 While he was living there, Reuben had intercourse with Bilhah, his father’s concubine, and Jacob soon heard about it. These are the names of the twelve sons of Jacob:
  • Genesis 36:12 Timna, the concubine of Esau’s son Eliphaz, gave birth to a son named Amalek. These are the descendants of Esau’s wife Adah.
  • Judges 8:31 He also had a concubine in Shechem, who gave birth to a son, whom he named Abimelech.
  • Judges 19:1 Now in those days Israel had no king. There was a man from the tribe of Levi living in a remote area of the hill country of Ephraim. One day he brought home a woman from Bethlehem in Judah to be his concubine.
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Source: Brown, Driver and Briggs, Hebrew and English Lexicon of the Old Testament (1906), public domain; markup by unfoldingWord, CC BY (github.com/unfoldingWord/Brown-Driver-Briggs-Enhanced).