WOMAN VS WIFE VS CONCUBINE
And Adam said, This [is] now bone of my bones, and flesh of my flesh: she shall be called WOMAN, because she was taken out of Man. Therefore shall a man leave his father and his mother, and shall cleave unto his WIFE: and they shall be one flesh. – Gen 2:24 KJV
WOMAN AKA WIFE
CONCUBINE
MAN AND WOMAN DEFINED
And his concubine, whose name [was] Reumah, she bare also Tebah, and Gaham, and Thahash, and Maachah. – Gen 22:24 KJV
…But unto the sons of the concubines, which Abraham had, Abraham gave gifts, and sent them away from Isaac his son, while he yet lived, eastward, unto the east country. – Gen 25:1-6 KJV
And it came to pass, when Israel dwelt in that land, that Reuben went and lay with Bilhah his father’s concubine: and Israel heard [it]. Now the sons of Jacob were twelve: – Gen 35 KJV
And Timna was concubine to Eliphaz Esau’s son; and she bare to Eliphaz Amalek: these [were] the sons of Adah Esau’s wife. – Gen 36:12 KJV
And his concubine that [was] in Shechem, she also bare him a son, whose name he called Abimelech. – Jdg 8:31 KJV
And it came to pass in those days, when [there was] no king in Israel, that there was a certain Levite sojourning on the side of mount Ephraim, who took to him a concubine out of Bethlehemjudah and his concubine played the whore against him, and went away from him unto her father's house to Bethlehemjudah, and was there four whole months.......And when the man rose up to depart, he, and his concubine, and his servant, his father in law, the damsel's father, said unto him, Behold, now the day draweth toward evening, I pray you tarry all night: behold, the day groweth to an end, lodge here, that thine heart may be merry; and to morrow get you early on your way, that thou mayest go home.......But the man would not tarry that night, but he rose up and departed, and came over against Jebus, which [is] Jerusalem; and [there were] with him two asses saddled, his concubine also [was] with him........Behold, [here is] my daughter a maiden, and his concubine; them I will bring out now, and humble ye them, and do with them what seemeth good unto you: but unto this man do not so vile a thing.......But the men would not hearken to him: so the man took his concubine, and brought her forth unto them; and they knew her, and abused her all the night until the morning: and when the day began to spring, they let her go.......And her lord rose up in the morning, and opened the doors of the house, and went out to go his way: and, behold, the woman his concubine was fallen down [at] the door of the house, and her hands [were] upon the threshold.......And when he was come into his house, he took a knife, and laid hold on his concubine, and divided her, [together] with her bones, into twelve pieces, and sent her into all the coasts of Israel.......And the Levite, the husband of the woman that was slain, answered and said, I came into Gibeah that [belongeth] to Benjamin, I and my concubine, to lodge. And the men of Gibeah rose against me, and beset the house round about upon me by night, [and] thought to have slain me: and my concubine have they forced, that she is dead. And I took my concubine, and cut her in pieces, and sent her throughout all the country of the inheritance of Israel: for they have committed lewdness and folly in Israel. - Jdg 20:6 KJV
And Saul had a concubine, whose name [was] Rizpah, the daughter of Aiah: and [Ishbosheth] said to Abner, Wherefore hast thou gone in unto my father’s concubine? – 2Sa 3:7 KJV
And David took [him] more concubines and wives out of Jerusalem, after he was come from Hebron: and there were yet sons and daughters born to David. – 2Sa 5:13 KJV
And the king went forth, and all his household after him. And the king left ten women, [which were] concubines, to keep the house. – 2Sa 15:16 KJV
And Ahithophel said unto Absalom, Go in unto thy father’s concubines, which he hath left to keep the house; and all Israel shall hear that thou art abhorred of thy father: then shall the hands of all that [are] with thee be strong. So they spread Absalom a tent upon the top of the house; and Absalom went in unto his father’s concubines in the sight of all Israel. – 2Sa 16:22 KJV
And Joab came into the house to the king, and said, Thou hast shamed this day the faces of all thy servants, which this day have saved thy life, and the lives of thy sons and of thy daughters, and the lives of thy wives, and the lives of thy concubines; – 2Sa 19:5 KJV
And David came to his house at Jerusalem; and the king took the ten women [his] concubines, whom he had left to keep the house, and put them in ward, and fed them, but went not in unto them. So they were shut up unto the day of their death, living in widowhood. – 2Sa 20:3 KJV
And it was told David what Rizpah the daughter of Aiah, the concubine of Saul, had done. – 2Sa 21:11 KJV
And he had seven hundred wives, princesses, and three hundred concubines: and his wives turned away his heart. – 1Ki 11:3 KJV
Now the sons of Keturah, Abraham’s concubine: she bare Zimran, and Jokshan, and Medan, and Midian, and Ishbak, and Shuah. And the sons of Jokshan; Sheba, and Dedan. – 1Ch 1:32 KJV
And Ephah, Caleb’s concubine, bare Haran, and Moza, and Gazez: and Haran begat Gazez. – 1Ch 2:46 KJV
Maachah, Caleb’s concubine, bare Sheber, and Tirhanah. – 1Ch 2:48 KJV
[These were] all the sons of David, beside the sons of the concubines, and Tamar their sister. – 1Ch 3:9 KJV
The sons of Manasseh; Ashriel, whom she bare: ([but] his concubine the Aramitess bare Machir the father of Gilead: – 1Ch 7:14 KJV
And Rehoboam loved Maachah the daughter of Absalom above all his wives and his concubines: (for he took eighteen wives, and threescore concubines; and begat twenty and eight sons, and threescore daughters.) – 2Ch 11:21 KJV
In the evening she went, and on the morrow she returned into the second house of the women, to the custody of Shaashgaz, the king’s chamberlain, which kept the concubines: she came in unto the king no more, except the king delighted in her, and that she were called by name. – Est 2:12-20 KJV
There are threescore queens, and fourscore concubines, and virgins without number. – Sng 6:8 KJV
My dove, my undefiled is [but] one; she [is] the [only] one of her mother, she [is] the choice [one] of her that bare her. The daughters saw her, and blessed her; [yea], the queens and the concubines, and they praised her. – Sng 6:9 KJV
Belshazzar, whiles he tasted the wine, commanded to bring the golden and silver vessels which his father Nebuchadnezzar had taken out of the temple which [was] in Jerusalem; that the king, and his princes, his wives, and his concubines, might drink therein. – Dan 5:2 KJV
Then they brought the golden vessels that were taken out of the temple of the house of God which [was] at Jerusalem; and the king, and his princes, his wives, and his concubines, drank in them. – Dan 5:3 KJV
But hast lifted up thyself against the Lord of heaven; and they have brought the vessels of his house before thee, and thou, and thy lords, thy wives, and thy concubines, have drunk wine in them; and thou hast praised the gods of silver, and gold, of brass, iron, wood, and stone, which see not, nor hear, nor know: and the God in whose hand thy breath [is], and whose [are] all thy ways, hast thou not glorified: – Dan 5:23 KJV
…And in that day seven women shall take hold of one man, saying, We will eat our own bread, and wear our own apparel: only let us be called by thy name, to take away our reproach… — Isaiah 4:1 KJV
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