Pilegesh (פִּילֶגֶשׁ, Biblical Hebrew pronunciation: [pʰi.ˈlɛgɛʃ], possibly related to Ancient Greek: παλλακή, romanized: pallakē, lit. 'young woman') is a term from the Hebrew Bible for a concubine, a female, unmarried sexual slave of social and legal status inferior to that of a wife. Among the Israelites, some men acknowledged their pilgashím, who thus had the same rights in the home as legal wives.
Pilegesh (פִּילֶגֶשׁ, Biblical Hebrew pronunciation: [pʰi.ˈlɛgɛʃ], possibly related to Ancient Greek: παλλακή, romanized: pallakē, lit. 'young woman') is a term from the Hebrew Bible for a concubine, a female, unmarried sexual slave of social and legal status inferior to that of a wife. Among the Israelites, some men acknowledged their pilgashím, who thus had the same rights in the home as legal wives.
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