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Lexicon :: Strong's H6370 - pîleḡeš

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פִּילֶגֶשׁ
Transliteration
pîleḡeš
Pronunciation
pee-leh'-ghesh
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Part of Speech
feminine noun
Root Word (Etymology)
Of uncertain derivation
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TWOT Reference: 1770

Variant Spellings

Variant spellings for this word: פילגש (Strongs and Gesenius) פלגש (Strongs)

Strong’s Definitions

פִּילֶגֶשׁ pîylegesh, pee-leh'-ghesh; or פִּלֶגֶשׁ pilegesh; of uncertain derivation; a concubine; also (masculine) a paramour:—concubine, paramour.

KJV Translation Count — Total: 37x

The KJV translates Strong's H6370 in the following manner: concubine (35x), concubine (with H802) (1x), paramours (1x).

KJV Translation Count — Total: 37x
The KJV translates Strong's H6370 in the following manner: concubine (35x), concubine (with H802) (1x), paramours (1x).

  1. concubine, paramour

    1. concubine

    2. paramour

Strong’s Definitions [?](Strong’s Definitions Legend)
פִּילֶגֶשׁ pîylegesh, pee-leh'-ghesh; or פִּלֶגֶשׁ pilegesh; of uncertain derivation; a concubine; also (masculine) a paramour:—concubine, paramour.
STRONGS H6370: Abbreviations
פִּלֶ֫גֶשׁ, פִּילֶ֫גֶשׁ 37 noun feminine concubine (Late Hebrew id.; TargumJ פִּילַּקְתָּא (פַּלְקְתָא), 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.); — פִּ׳ absolute 2 Samuel 3:7, construct 2 Samuel 21:11, פִּי׳ absolute Genesis 36:12; Judges 19:1, construct Genesis 35:22 + 4 times; suffix פִּילַגְשׁוֹ Genesis 22:24 +, שֵׁהוּ- Judges 19:24; שִׁי- Judges 20:4 + 2 times; plural פִּלַגְשִׁים 2 Samuel 5:13 + 2 times, פִּי׳ Genesis 25:6 + 5 times; construct פִּלַגְשֵׁי 2 Samuel 16:21, 22; suffix פִּילַגְשָׁיו 2 Chronicles 11:21, פִּלַגְשֶׁיךָ 2 Samuel 19:6, פִּלַגְשֵׁיהֶם Ezekiel 23:20; —
1. concubine Genesis 22:24; Genesis 25:6; Genesis 35:22; Genesis 36:12; Judges 8:31; Judges 19:1 + 10 times Judges 19:20; 2 Samuel 3:7 (twice in verse) + 7 times 2 Samuel; 1 Kings 11:3; 1 Chronicles 1:32 + 6 times 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).
Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew and English Lexicon, Unabridged, Electronic Database.
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BLB Scripture Index of Brown-Driver-Briggs

Genesis

22:24; 22:24; 25:6; 25:6; 35:22; 35:22; 36:12; 36:12

Judges

8:31; 19:1; 19:1; 19:20; 19:24; 20:4

2 Samuel

3:7; 3:7; 5:13; 16:21; 16:22; 19:6; 21:11

1 Kings

11:3

1 Chronicles

1:32

2 Chronicles

11:21

Esther

2:14

Song of Songs

6:8; 6:9

Ezekiel

23:20; 23:20

H6370

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Strong's Number H6370 matches the Hebrew פִּילֶגֶשׁ (pîleḡeš),
which occurs 37 times in 35 verses in the WLC Hebrew.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 22:24

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 22:24 - And his servant Reumah gave birth to Tebah and Gaham and Tahash and Maacah.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 25:6

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 25:6 - But to the sons of his other women he gave offerings, and sent them away, while he was still living, into the east country.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 35:22

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 35:22 - Now while they were living in that country, Reuben had connection with Bilhah, his father's servant-woman: and Israel had news of it.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 36:12

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 36:12 - And Eliphaz, the son of Esau, had connection with a woman named Timna, who gave birth to Amalek: all these were the children of Esau's wife Adah.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 8:31

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 8:31 - And the servant-wife he had in Shechem had a son by him, to whom he gave the name Abimelech.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 19:1

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 19:1 - Now in those days, when there was no king in Israel, a certain Levite was living in the inmost parts of the hill-country of Ephraim, and he got for himself a servant-wife from Beth-lehem-judah.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 19:2

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 19:2 - And his servant-wife was angry with him, and went away from him to her father's house at Beth-lehem-judah, and was there for four months.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 19:9

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 19:9 - And when they got up to go away, his father-in-law, the girl's father, said to him, Now evening is coming on, so do not go tonight; see, the day is almost gone; take your rest here and let your heart be glad, and tomorrow early, go on your way back to your house.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 19:10

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 19:10 - But the man would not be kept there that night, and he got up and went away and came opposite to Jebus (which is Jerusalem); and he had with him the two asses, ready for travelling, and his woman.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 19:24

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 19:24 - See, here is my daughter, a virgin, and his servant-wife: I will send them out for you to take them and do with them whatever you will. But do no such thing of shame to this man.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 19:25

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 19:25 - But the men would not give ear to him: so the man took his woman and sent her out to them; and they took her by force, using her for their pleasure all night till the morning; and when dawn came they let her go.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 19:27

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 19:27 - In the morning her master got up, and opening the door of the house went out to go on his way; and he saw his servant-wife stretched on the earth at the door of the house with her hands on the step.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 19:29

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 19:29 - And when he had come to his house, he got his knife, and took the woman, cutting her up bone by bone into twelve parts, which he sent through all Israel.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 20:4

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 20:4 - Then the Levite, the husband of the dead woman, said in answer, I came to Gibeah in the land of Benjamin, I and my servant-wife, for the purpose of stopping there for the night.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 20:5

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 20:5 - And the townsmen of Gibeah came together against me, going round the house on all sides by night; it was their purpose to put me to death, and my servant-wife was violently used by them and is dead.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 20:6

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 20:6 - So I took her, cutting her into parts which I sent through all the country of the heritage of Israel: for they have done an act of shame in Israel.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 3:7

Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 3:7 - Now Saul had among his wives a woman named Rizpah, the daughter of Aiah: and Ish-bosheth said to Abner, Why have you taken my father's wife?

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Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 5:13

Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 5:13 - And David took more women and wives in Jerusalem, after he had come from Hebron: and he had more sons and daughters.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 15:16

Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 15:16 - So the king went out, taking with him all the people of his house, but for ten of his women, who were to take care of the house.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 16:21

Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 16:21 - And Ahithophel said to Absalom, Go in to your father's women who are here looking after his house; then all Israel will have the news that you are hated by your father, and the hands of your supporters will be strong.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 16:22

Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 16:22 - So they put up the tent for Absalom on the top of the house, and Absalom went in to his father's women before the eyes of all Israel.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 19:5

Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 19:5 - And Joab came into the house to the king and said, Today you have put to shame the faces of all your servants who even now have kept you and your sons and your daughters and your wives and all your women safe from death;

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Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 20:3

Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 20:3 - And David came to his house at Jerusalem: and the king took the ten women to whom he had given the care of the house, and had them shut up, and gave them the necessaries of life, but did not go near them. So they were shut up till the day of their death, living as widows.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 21:11

Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 21:11 - And news was given to David of what Rizpah, the daughter of Aiah, one of Saul's wives, had done.

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Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 11:3

Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 11:3 - He had seven hundred wives, daughters of kings, and three hundred other wives; and through his wives his heart was turned away.

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Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 1:32

Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 1:32 - And the sons of Keturah, Abraham's servant-wife: she was the mother of Zimran and Jokshan and Medan and Midian and Ishbak and Shuah. And the sons of Jokshan: Sheba and Dedan.

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Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 2:46

Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 2:46 - And Ephah, Caleb's servant-wife, had Haran and Moza and Gazez; and Haran was the father of Gazez.

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Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 2:48

Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 2:48 - Maacah, Caleb's servant-wife, was the mother of Sheber and Tirhanah,

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Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 3:9

Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 3:9 - All these were the sons of David, in addition to the sons of his servant-wives; and Tamar was their sister.

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Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 7:14

Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 7:14 - The sons of Manasseh by his servant-wife, the Aramaean woman: she gave birth to Machir, the father of Gilead;

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 11:21

Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 11:21 - Maacah, the daughter of Absalom, was dearer to Rehoboam than all his wives and his servant-wives: (for he had eighteen wives and sixty servant-wives, and was the father of twenty-eight sons and sixty daughters.)

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Unchecked Copy BoxEst 2:14

Unchecked Copy BoxEst 2:14 - In the evening she went, and on the day after she came back to the second house of the women, into the keeping of Shaashgaz, one of the king's unsexed servants who had the care of the king's wives: only if the king had delight in her and sent for her by name did she go in to him again.

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Unchecked Copy BoxSng 6:8

Unchecked Copy BoxSng 6:8 - There are sixty queens, and eighty servant-wives, and young girls without number.

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Unchecked Copy BoxSng 6:9

Unchecked Copy BoxSng 6:9 - My dove, my very beautiful one, is but one; she is the only one of her mother, she is the dearest one of her who gave her birth. The daughters saw her, and gave her a blessing; yes, the queens and the servant-wives, and they gave her praises.

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Unchecked Copy BoxEze 23:20

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 23:20 - And she was full of desire for her lovers, whose flesh is like the flesh of asses and whose seed is like the seed of horses.
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