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# 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 →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/C/concubinage/#m1)

### 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 →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/C/concubinage/#x1)

### note

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

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «concubinage» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/C/concubinage/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.