And his concubine, whose name was Reumah, she bare also Tebah, and Gaham, and Thahash, and Maachah.
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- Abraham Was Tested 2. מריה morı̂yâh, “Moriah”; Samaritan: מוראה môr'âh; “Septuagint,” ὑψηλή hupsēlē, Onkelos, “worship.” Some take the word to be a simple derivative, as the Septuagint and…
Adam Clarke
His concubine - We borrow this word from the Latin compound concubina, from con, together, and cubo, to lie, and apply it solely to a woman cohabiting with a man without being legally married. The…
This is recorded here, 1. To show that though Abraham saw his own family highly dignified with peculiar privileges, admitted into covenant, and blessed with the entail of the promise, yet he did not…
Cambridge Bible
Reumah The children of the concubine denote a less intimate tribal relationship than the children of the legal wife.
Maacah See 2Sa 10:6. A region to the north of Mount Hermon; cf. the mention of the…