Pilegesh
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'''' (, , possibly related to ) 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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