TBESH · H6370
פִּלֶ֫גֶשׁ · pi.le.gesh · concubine
1) concubine, paramour 1a) concubine 1b) paramour
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פִּלֶ֫גֶשׁ (pi.le.gesh) means “concubine” in the TBESH Hebrew lexicon from STEPBible.
Pronunciation guide: pee-leh'-ghesh Strong’s Hebrew pronunciation spelling.
פִּלֶ֫גֶשׁ · pi.le.gesh · concubine
1) concubine, paramour 1a) concubine 1b) paramour
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or פִּלֶגֶשׁ; of uncertain derivation; a concubine; also (masculine) a paramour
KJV glosses: concubine, paramour.
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Counts below follow each translation’s tagged words. A rendering can cover a phrase. Differences in text editions and tagging can produce different totals.
| Rendering | Count |
|---|---|
| concubines | 9 |
| concubine | 7 |
| his concubine | 3 |
| a concubine | 2 |
| and concubines | 2 |
| my concubine | 2 |
| and his concubine | 1 |
| and my concubine | 1 |
| and of your concubines | 1 |
| and the mans concubine | 1 |
| but she | 1 |
| by his concubines | 1 |
| had a concubine | 1 |
| nahors concubine | 1 |
| of his concubine | 1 |
| the concubines | 1 |
| their lovers | 1 |
| with his concubine | 1 |
| Rendering | Count |
|---|---|
| concubines | 7 |
| concubine | 5 |
| and his concubine | 4 |
| his concubine | 4 |
| of the concubines | 2 |
| and his concubines | 1 |
| and the concubines | 1 |
| had a concubine | 1 |
| he and his concubine | 1 |
| i and my concubine | 1 |
| me and my concubine | 1 |
| more concubines | 1 |
| my concubine | 1 |
| of thy concubines | 1 |
| on his concubine | 1 |
| the concubine | 1 |
| the concubines | 1 |
| to him a concubine | 1 |
| upon their paramours | 1 |
| was concubine | 1 |
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Moreover, Nahor’s concubine, whose name was Reumah, bore Tebah, Gaham, Tahash, and Maacah.
Read word by wordBut while he was still alive, Abraham gave gifts to the sons of his concubines and sent them away from his son Isaac to the land of the east.
Read word by wordWhile Israel was living in that region, Reuben went in and slept with his father’s concubine Bilhah, and Israel heard about it. Jacob had twelve sons:
Read word by wordAdditionally, Timna, a concubine of Esau’s son Eliphaz, gave birth to Amalek. These are the grandsons of Esau’s wife Adah.
Read word by wordHis concubine, who dwelt in Shechem, also bore him a son, and he named him Abimelech.
Read word by wordNow in those days, when there was no king in Israel, a Levite who lived in the remote hill country of Ephraim took for himself a concubine from Bethlehem in Judah.
Read word by wordBut she was unfaithful to him and left him to return to her father’s house in Bethlehem in Judah. After she had been there four months,
Read word by wordWhen the man got up to depart with his concubine and his servant, his father-in-law, the girl’s father, said to him, “Look, the day is drawing to a close. Please spend the night. See, the day is almost over. Spend the night here, that your heart may be merry. Then you can get up early tomorrow for your journey home.”
Read word by wordBut the man was unwilling to spend the night. He got up and departed, and arrived opposite Jebus (that is, Jerusalem), with his two saddled donkeys and his concubine.
Read word by wordLook, let me bring out my virgin daughter and the man’s concubine, and you can use them and do with them as you wish. But do not do such a vile thing to this man.”
Read word by wordBut the men would not listen to him. So the Levite took his concubine and sent her outside to them, and they raped her and abused her throughout the night, and at dawn they let her go.
Read word by wordIn the morning, when her master got up and opened the doors of the house to go out on his journey, there was his concubine, collapsed in the doorway of the house, with her hands on the threshold.
Read word by wordWhen he reached his house, he picked up a knife, took hold of his concubine, cut her limb by limb into twelve pieces, and sent her throughout the territory of Israel.
Read word by wordSo the Levite, the husband of the murdered woman, answered: “I and my concubine came to Gibeah in Benjamin to spend the night.
Read word by wordAnd during the night, the men of Gibeah rose up against me and surrounded the house. They intended to kill me, but they abused my concubine, and she died.
Read word by wordThen I took my concubine, cut her into pieces, and sent her throughout the land of Israel’s inheritance, because they had committed a lewd and disgraceful act in Israel.
Read word by wordNow Saul had a concubine named Rizpah, the daughter of Aiah. So Ish-bosheth questioned Abner, “Why did you sleep with my father’s concubine?”
Read word by wordAfter he had arrived from Hebron, David took more concubines and wives from Jerusalem, and more sons and daughters were born to him.
Read word by wordThen the king set out, and his entire household followed him. But he left behind ten concubines to take care of the palace.
Read word by wordAhithophel replied, “Sleep with your father’s concubines, whom he has left to take care of the palace. When all Israel hears that you have become a stench to your father, then the hands of all who are with you will be strengthened.”
Read word by wordSo they pitched a tent for Absalom on the roof, and he slept with his father’s concubines in the sight of all Israel.
Read word by wordThen Joab went into the house and said to the king, “Today you have disgraced all your servants who have saved your life and the lives of your sons and daughters, of your wives, and of your concubines.
Read word by wordSource alternate reference: 19.6
When David returned to his palace in Jerusalem, he took the ten concubines he had left to take care of the palace, and he placed them in a house under guard. He provided for them, but he no longer slept with them. They were confined until the day of their death, living as widows.
Read word by wordWhen David was told what Saul’s concubine Rizpah, daughter of Aiah, had done,
Read word by wordHe had seven hundred wives of royal birth and three hundred concubines—and his wives turned his heart away.
Read word by wordThe sons born to Keturah, Abraham’s concubine: Zimran, Jokshan, Medan, Midian, Ishbak, and Shuah. The sons of Jokshan: Sheba and Dedan.
Read word by wordCaleb’s concubine Ephah was the mother of Haran, Moza, and Gazez. Haran was the father of Gazez.
Read word by wordCaleb’s concubine Maacah was the mother of Sheber and Tirhanah.
Read word by wordThese were all the sons of David, besides the sons by his concubines. And Tamar was their sister.
Read word by wordThe descendants of Manasseh: Asriel through his Aramean concubine. She also gave birth to Machir the father of Gilead.
Read word by wordRehoboam loved Maacah daughter of Absalom more than all his wives and concubines. In all, he had eighteen wives and sixty concubines, and he was the father of twenty-eight sons and sixty daughters.
Read word by wordShe would go there in the evening, and in the morning she would return to a second harem under the care of Shaashgaz, the king’s eunuch in charge of the concubines. She would not return to the king unless he delighted in her and summoned her by name.
Read word by wordThere are sixty queens and eighty concubines, and maidens without number,
Read word by wordbut my dove, my perfect one, is unique, the favorite of the mother who bore her. The maidens see her and call her blessed; the queens and concubines sing her praises.
Read word by wordand lusted after their lovers, whose genitals were like those of donkeys and whose emission was like that of stallions.
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