παλλακή
concubine
Where this word appears
A sample of passages — one per book it occurs in — where παλλακή appears in the Greek Septuagint (of 37 total occurrences). Click any verse to open its interlinear word-by-word view. Verse text is shown in the LXX2012 (modern English Septuagint) for context; the Greek form is the matched word — the English is not keyword-highlighted.
- Genesis 22:24 παλλακή
- Judges 8:31 παλλακή And his concubine was in Sychem, and she also bore him a son, and gave him the name Abimelech.
- 2 Samuel 3:7 παλλακή And Saul had a concubine, Respha, the daughter of Jol; and Jebosthe the son of Saul said to Abenner, Why have you gone in to my father's concubine?
- 1 Kings 11:1 παλλακή And king Solomon was a lover of women. 3) And he had seven hundred wives, princesses, and three hundred concubines. 1) And he took strange women, as well as the daughter of Pharao, Moabitish, Ammanitish women, Syrians and Idumeans, Chettites, and Amorites;
- 1 Chronicles 1:20 παλλακή
- 2 Chronicles 11:21 παλλακή And Roboam loved Maacha the daughter of Abessalom more than all his wives and all his concubines: for he had eighteen wives and sixty concubines; and he begot twenty-eight sons, and sixty daughters.
- Ezra 12:6 παλλακή
- Song of Solomon 6:8 παλλακή My dove, my perfect one is one; she is the only one of her mother; she is the choice of her that bore her. The daughters saw her, and the queens will pronounce her blessed, yes, and the concubines, and they will praise her.
About this word
About this word
παλλακή (pallakḗ), “concubine,” is a word from the Greek Septuagint — the ancient Greek translation of the Hebrew Old Testament. It does not occur in the Greek New Testament, so it carries no Strong’s number from Thayer’s (New-Testament) lexicon; the gloss shown here is a curated modern-English sense rather than a Strong’s definition. It appears 37 times across the Septuagint — open the Appearances tab to read it in context.
The gloss above is Lemma’s own curated sense — this word carries no Strong’s number, so no lexicon we ship has an entry for it. The transliteration and this passage list are computed here from the tagged Septuagint text. What Lemma adds →