August 2015

I've been very lax in my studies...though I have been reading.  Please be encouraged to read and study, and pray for me to do likewise!

Paramours

Ezk.23.18-20.- So she discovered her whoredoms, and discovered her nakedness: then my mind was alienated from her, like as my mind was alienated from her sister. For she doted upon their paramours, whose flesh is as the flesh of asses, and whose issue is like the issue of horses.

Paramours - H6370 - pee-leh'-ghesh, pee-leh'-ghesh - Of uncertain derivation; a concubine; also (masculine) a paramour: - concubine, paramour.

Used 37 times in 35 verses - but translated only once as paramours, all the other times as concubine or concubines.

Abraham's concubine, Reumah - Genesis 22:24

Abraham's concubines - plural - Genesis 25:6

Jacob's concubine, Bilhah - who Reuben layed with - Genesis 35.22

Eliphaz's concubine, Timma - Genesis 36:12

Gideon's concubine - Judges 8:31

Judges 19-20 - Levite man takes a concubine who plays the whore.  Sacrificed and then cut into pieces.

Saul's concubine, Rizpah - 2 Samuel 3;7; 21:11

David's concubines - 2 Samuel 5:13

Ten concubines left to 'keep the house' when David fled from Absalom - sacrificed in judgment against David. - 2 Samuel 15:16

Solomon's concubines - 1 Kings 11:3

Abraham's concubine, Keturah (same as Reumah?) - 1 Chronicles 1:32

Caleb's concubine, Ephah - 1 Chronicles 2:46

Caleb's concubine, Maachah - 1 Chronicles 2:48

Interesting that some concubines are mentioned by name, given a place of honor.  Look at ALL the people referenced in the Bible, yet in comparison so few actually have their name listed.

And the same word (which I can almost picture being spat out) - paramour - is, in some instances not a negative.  Just a delineation.  I wonder if one was a concubine if the treatment was different?

Not you're female/male, brother/sister, wife/husband, etc. Oh, you, you're so and so's concubine.  Interesting too, paramour is masculine, while concubine is feminine.  So one couldn't use the word paramour to reference a female?  She would be a harlot?