CONCUBINAGE

CONCUBINAGE. → LAWS CONCERNING Ex 21:7-11; Le 19:20-22; De 21:10-14
* Concubines might be dismissed Ge 21:9-14
* Called WIVES Ge 37:2; Jud 19:3-5
* Children of, not heirs Ge 15:4; 21:10
* Practiced by

Abraham Ge 16:3; 25:6; 1Ch 1:32 Nahor Ge 22:23,24 Jacob Ge 30:4 Eliphaz Ge 36:12 Gideon Jud 8:31 A Levite Jud 19:1 Caleb 1Ch 2:46-48 Manasseh 1Ch 7:14 Saul 2Sa 3:7 David 2Sa 5:13; 15:16 Solomon 1Ki 11:3 Rehoboam 2Ch 11:21 Abijah 2Ch 13:21 Belshazzar Da 5:2
* See MARRIAGE
* See POLYGAMY

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concubinage. Concubinage, n. the keeping of a mistress, fornication

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Con‐cu″bi‐nage (?), n. 1. 1. The cohabiting of a man and a woman who are not legally married; the state of being a concubine.
☞ In some countries, concubinage is marriage of an inferior kind, or performed with less solemnity than a true or formal marriage; or marriage with a woman of inferior condition, to whom the husband does not convey his rank or quality. Under Roman law, it was the living of a man and woman in sexual relations without marriage, but in conformity with local law. 2. 2. (Law) A plea, in which it is alleged that the woman suing for dower was not lawfully married to the man in whose lands she seeks to be endowed, but that she was his concubine.