Lexicon pilegesh: concubine Original Word: פִּילֶ֫גֶשׁPart of Speech: Noun Feminine Transliteration: pilegesh Phonetic Spelling: (pee-leh'-ghesh) Short Definition: concubine NAS Exhaustive Concordance Word Originperhaps of foreign origin Definitionconcubine NASB Translationconcubine (22), concubines (14), paramours (1).
Brown-Driver-Briggs מִּלֶ֫גֶשׁ, מִּילֶ֫גֶשׁ37 noun feminine concubine (Late Hebrew id.; ᵑ7J (מַּלְקְתָא) מִּילַּקְתָּא, perhaps influenced by Greek παλλακή, παλλακίς (properly young girl), Latin pellex; originally Greek word according to StaG. i. 380, compare also LewyFremdw. 66f; on possibly Hittite origin see JenZMG xiviii (1894), 468 ff.); — ׳מִּ absolute 2 Samuel 3:7, construct 2 Samuel 21:11, ׳מִּי absolute Genesis 36:12; Judges 19:1, construct Genesis 35:22 4t.; suffix מִּילַגְשׁוֺ Genesis 22:24 +, שֵׁהוּ- Judges 19:24; שִׁי- Judges 20:4 2t.; plural מִּלַגְשִׁים 2 Samuel 5:13 2t., ׳מִּי Genesis 25:6 5t.; construct מִּלַגְשֵׁי 2 Samuel 16:21,22; suffix מִּילַגְשָׁיו2Chronicles 11:21, מִּלַגְשֶׁיךָ 2 Samuel 19:6, מִּלַגְשֵׁיהֶם Ezekiel 23:20; — 1 concubine Genesis 22:24; Genesis 25:6; Genesis 35:22; Genesis 36:12; Judges 8:31; Judges 19:1 10t. Judges 19:20; 2 Samuel 3:7 (twice in verse) + 7 t. 2Samuel; 1 Kings 11:3; 1 Chronicles 1:32 6t. Chronicles; Esther 2:14; Songs 6:8,9. 2 either = paramour (perhaps contempt.; ὁ πάλλαξ = youth), or < concubinage Ezekiel 23:20 (figurative of Jerusalem doting on Babylon).
Strong's concubine, paramour Or pilegesh {pee-leh'-ghesh}; of uncertain derivation; a concubine; also (masculine) a paramour -- concubine, paramour. |
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