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Strong's H6370 פִּילֶגֶשׁ (pilegesh)

Pilegesh means “concubine” — full meaning, definition, and every linked Bible usage across the indexed canon.

Strong's Number H6370
Language Hebrew
Linked Usages 35
Books 9

Strong's H6370 Quick Answer

Strong's H6370 פִּילֶגֶשׁ פִּלֶגֶשׁ (piylegesh) is a Hebrew Strong's word-study entry. piylegesh (pee-leh'-ghesh) (or pilegesh {pee-leh'-ghesh}) n-f. 1. a concubine 2. (masculine) a paramour, gigolo It has 35 linked Bible usages across 9 books. Visible English usage signals include concubine, concubines, and paramours. Indexed coverage on this page includes Old Testament.

Meaning
piylegesh (pee-leh'-ghesh) (or pilegesh {pee-leh'-ghesh}) n-f. 1. a concubine 2. (masculine) a paramour, gigolo
Usage
35 linked usages
Books
9 indexed books
Corpus
Old Testament
Usage Words
concubine, concubines, and paramours

Meaning and Definition

piylegesh (pee-leh'-ghesh) (or pilegesh {pee-leh'-ghesh}) n-f. 1. a concubine 2. (masculine) a paramour, gigolo [of uncertain derivation] KJV: concubine, paramour.

Original Word
פִּילֶגֶשׁ פִּלֶגֶשׁ
Transliteration
piylegesh
Morphology
noun fem

Across Lexicons

How independent scholarly lexicons define Strong's H6370. Each definition is shown with its source so you can compare and cite the original reference works.

How Strong's H6370 Is Translated

The English word each shown verse actually uses to render piylegesh, taken from the interlinear word alignment (the same word underlined in the excerpts below). Where a rendering is used more than once, the count is shown.

concubine Genesis 22:24 21× concubines Genesis 25:6 paramours Ezekiel 23:20

How Strong's H6370 Usage Compares

Indexed coverage includes Old Testament. Each section below keeps corpus counts and sample passages visible so readers can compare the word across contexts instead of reading one flat concordance list.

  • The largest indexed corpus on this page is Old Testament with 35 linked usages.
  • The linked rows are Old Testament Hebrew usage, grouped by book for fast canonical scanning.

Strong's H6370 by Corpus

Indexed usage grouped by testament and extended corpus so readers can compare this word across the Bible, Septuagint, deuterocanonical books, and 1 Enoch where present.

Strong's H6370 in the Old Testament

35 indexed usages in Old Testament.

Genesis 22:24 KJV

And his concubine, whose name was Reumah, she bare also Tebah, and Gaham, and Thahash, and Maachah.

Genesis 25:6 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.

Genesis 35:22 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:

Usage Excerpts

First 35 linked usage excerpts for Strong's H6370.

Genesis 22:24 Old Testament, KJV
And his concubine, whose name was Reumah, she bare also Tebah, and Gaham, and Thahash, and Maachah.
Genesis 25:6 Old Testament, 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.
Genesis 35:22 Old Testament, 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:
Genesis 36:12 Old Testament, 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.
Judges 8:31 Old Testament, KJV
And his concubine that was in Shechem, she also bare him a son, whose name he called Abimelech.
Judges 19:1 Old Testament, 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.
Judges 19:2 Old Testament, KJV
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.
Judges 19:9 Old Testament, KJV
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.
Judges 19:10 Old Testament, KJV
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.
Judges 19:24 Old Testament, KJV
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.
Judges 19:25 Old Testament, KJV
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.
Judges 19:27 Old Testament, KJV
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.
Judges 19:29 Old Testament, KJV
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.
Judges 20:4 Old Testament, KJV
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.
Judges 20:5 Old Testament, KJV
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.
Judges 20:6 Old Testament, KJV
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.
2 Samuel 3:7 Old Testament, 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?
2 Samuel 5:13 Old Testament, 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.
2 Samuel 15:16 Old Testament, 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.
2 Samuel 16:21 Old Testament, 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.
2 Samuel 16:22 Old Testament, KJV
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.
2 Samuel 19:5 Old Testament, 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;
2 Samuel 20:3 Old Testament, 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.
2 Samuel 21:11 Old Testament, KJV
And it was told David what Rizpah the daughter of Aiah, the concubine of Saul, had done.
1 Kings 11:3 Old Testament, KJV
And he had seven hundred wives, princesses, and three hundred concubines: and his wives turned away his heart.
1 Chronicles 1:32 Old Testament, 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.
1 Chronicles 2:46 Old Testament, KJV
And Ephah, Caleb's concubine, bare Haran, and Moza, and Gazez: and Haran begat Gazez.
1 Chronicles 2:48 Old Testament, KJV
Maachah, Caleb's concubine, bare Sheber, and Tirhanah.
1 Chronicles 3:9 Old Testament, KJV
These were all the sons of David, beside the sons of the concubines, and Tamar their sister.
1 Chronicles 7:14 Old Testament, KJV
The sons of Manasseh; Ashriel, whom she bare: (but his concubine the Aramitess bare Machir the father of Gilead:
2 Chronicles 11:21 Old Testament, 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.)
Esther 2:14 Old Testament, 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.
Song of Solomon 6:8 Old Testament, KJV
There are threescore queens, and fourscore concubines, and virgins without number.
Song of Solomon 6:9 Old Testament, 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.
Ezekiel 23:20 Old Testament, KJV
For she doted upon their paramours, whose flesh is as the flesh of asses, and whose issue is like the issue of horses.

All Indexed Usage Links

Every indexed verse link for Strong's H6370, grouped by book.

Genesis 4 usages, Old Testament
Judges 12 usages, Old Testament
2 Samuel 8 usages, Old Testament
1 Kings 1 usage, Old Testament
1 Chronicles 5 usages, Old Testament
2 Chronicles 1 usage, Old Testament
Esther 1 usage, Old Testament
Song of Solomon 2 usages, Old Testament
Ezekiel 1 usage, Old Testament

Strong's H6370 FAQ

What does pilegesh (פִּילֶגֶשׁ) mean?

Pilegesh (Strong's H6370) is a Hebrew word most simply glossed "concubine". piylegesh (pee-leh'-ghesh) (or pilegesh {pee-leh'-ghesh}) n-f. 1. a concubine 2. (masculine) a paramour, gigolo

How many times is pilegesh (פִּילֶגֶשׁ) used in the Bible?

This page currently indexes 35 linked usages for Strong's H6370 across 9 books.

Where can I study pilegesh (פִּילֶגֶשׁ) in context?

Use the linked verse references on this page to study Strong's H6370 in context. The indexed coverage includes Old Testament.

What English words translate pilegesh (פִּילֶגֶשׁ)?

The visible usage excerpts most often surface English words such as concubine, concubines, and paramours. These are scanning signals from the displayed verses, not replacements for the original-language definition.