pi.le.gesh names a woman identified with a man or household, often in accounts of children, domestic life, and royal households.

The term consistently identifies a woman in relation to a particular man or household. The verses place such women in genealogies and childbirth accounts, distinguish them alongside wives or queens in household lists, and follow them within domestic and royal narratives.

1. Woman identified with a man or household · dominant

   The singular construct form marks a woman by her relation to a named man in genealogical and family clauses: Keturah bears Abraham's sons in 1 Chronicles 1:32, and Ephah and Maacah bear Caleb's children in 1 Chronicles 2:46 and 1 Chronicles 2:48. In royal and household settings, plural forms identify groups of such women: in 2 Samuel 15:16 the APB renders ten women left to keep the house, while 1 Kings 11:3 and Song of Songs 6:8 place them alongside wives or queens. The same relational designation remains in the Levite's narrative, where the woman is repeatedly identified as his in Judges 19:1 and Judges 20:4.

   1 Chronicles 1:321 Chronicles 2:462 Samuel 15:161 Kings 11:3Song of Songs 6:8Judges 19:1

In the Anselm Project Bible: Across the supplied verses, the APB usually renders the term as “concubine” or “concubines,” including in genealogy, royal-household, and narrative contexts. Its wording confirms the verse-level presentation but does not by itself define each occurrence.