Concubine

[visionary]

Is a concubine is a wife but remains at servant status? Does she have various rights and privileges like the wife?

 

[Sola1517]

Is a concubine is a wife but remains at servant status? Does she have various rights and privileges like the wife?

Same rights, maybe. Same Identity, no.

 

[Catherineanne]

Is a concubine is a wife but remains at servant status? Does she have various rights and privileges like the wife?

In which culture?

 

[Lulav]

Basically like a mistress.

You might want to read this.

 

[visionary]

Basically like a mistress.

You might want to read this.

Or she would have been called the second wife.

 

[BukiRob]

Basically like a mistress.

You might want to read this.

I disagree. A mistress is an adulteress relationship. A concubine is not an adulteress relationship. A concubine is dedicated to one man only. A mistress may or may not be dedicated to just one man.

 

[Dave-W]

Or she would have been called the second wife.

Solomon had 700 wives and 300 concubines. 1 Kings 11:3 How would you count that?

 

[Open Heart]

Is a concubine is a wife but remains at servant status? Does she have various rights and privileges like the wife?

A concubine is not a wife. Nor is a concubine a mistress--the sex is licit. It is another category of woman that we simply don't have in our society any more. Usually a man makes a woman his concubine because there is something prohibiting him from marrying her, such as a difference in social status, or a contract forbidding matrimony. Her place in his home is always second to that of the wife or wives.

What rights and privileges do you think wives had in Abraham's day? My guess is that the only privileges they enjoyed are whatever their husbands were good enough to give them, since women were considered men's property, to be given and taken in marriage.

What are the rights of the concubine and her children compared to the wife and hers? It differs from culture to culture. In all cases the concubine and her children receive less, but in some cultures, her children receive no inheritance at all.

 

[visionary]

Is a concubine used in barter, favors for favors?

 

[Dave-W]

Is a concubine used in barter, favors for favors?

As in sexual favors? No.

 

[visionary]

As in sexual favors? No.

So many concubines is not a harem?

 

[Lulav]

What is a mistress?

I disagree. A mistress is an adulteress relationship. A concubine is not an adulteress relationship. A concubine is dedicated to one man only. A mistress may or may not be dedicated to just one man.

What is a mistress?

Throughout history, there have been instances when it was considered acceptable for an important man to keep a woman, not his wife, as a mistress. These women were called concubines, and they often were treated better than the man's wife. The word concubine comes from the Latin verb, cubare, which means "to lie down."


Now we see in the very first book of the bible instances of this.

First with Sarai and Hagar. Hagar was Sarai's handmaid but she gave her to Abram to have sex with in hopes of producing a child.

Then there is Jacobs two wives, and their handmaids who were used for the same thing.



Ancient marriage arrangements often stipulated that if the wife was barren, she must provide a handmaiden for her husband . Naming the handmaiden given to the bride by her father in such cases was evidently related to this practice. If the wife later bore children of her own, they took precedence in the inheritance over those of the handmaiden , although the latter did receive a share.

This is not only found in the Bible but also in the Code of Hammurabi.

 

[Open Heart]

Is a concubine used in barter, favors for favors?

No different than marriage was used in barter, favor for favors.

 

[BukiRob]

What is a mistress?


What is a mistress?

Throughout history, there have been instances when it was considered acceptable for an important man to keep a woman, not his wife, as a mistress. These women were called concubines, and they often were treated better than the man's wife. The word concubine comes from the Latin verb, cubare, which means "to lie down."


Now we see in the very first book of the bible instances of this.

First with Sarai and Hagar. Hagar was Sarai's handmaid but she gave her to Abram to have sex with in hopes of producing a child.

Then there is Jacobs two wives, and their handmaids who were used for the same thing.



Ancient marriage arrangements often stipulated that if the wife was barren, she must provide a handmaiden for her husband . Naming the handmaiden given to the bride by her father in such cases was evidently related to this practice. If the wife later bore children of her own, they took precedence in the inheritance over those of the handmaiden , although the latter did receive a share.

This is not only found in the Bible but also in the Code of Hammurabi.

I answered your question. A MISTRESS is NOT necessarily bound to one man... concubine is