concubinage

«concubinage» in Mova's judaism dictionary: The state of living with a lover as a secondary wife… — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples.

part of speech

noun

meaning for a pupil

The state of living with a lover as a secondary wife; here it means lustful, unfaithful behavior. tree →

sense in the lessons

In the Tanakh and Jewish tradition: Ezekiel uses it as a picture of Israel and Judah chasing after foreign nations and gods like a faithless wife. Interpretation: The prophets describe idolatry and foreign alliances as unfaithfulness in the marriage between God and Israel.

examples

• And she doted upon concubinage with them, whose flesh is as the flesh of asses, and whose issue is like the issue of horses. (Prophets EZK.23.20, JPS 1917) tree →

note

A record of the Judaism dictionary, written from the corpus.

Trees and pragmatics

Every meaning and example of «concubinage» parsed by Mova, each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.