concubinage
noun
In 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.
Meaning
The state of living with a lover as a secondary wife; here it means lustful, unfaithful behavior. tree →
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.
On Mova
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