Study it in the app“But his concubine prostituted herself against him and went away from him to her father’s house at Bethlehem of Judah, and she was there for some time, four months.”
But his concubineוַ פִּילַגְשׁוֹprostituted herselfתִּזְנֶהagainst himעָלָיוand went awayוַתֵּלֶךְfrom himמֵאִתּוֹtoאֶלher father’sאָבִיהָhouseבֵּיתatאֶלBethlehemבֵּית לֶחֶםof Judah,יְהוּדָהand she wasוַתְּהִיthereשָׁםfor some time,יָמִיםfourאַרְבָּעָהmonths.חֳדָשִׁים
concubine
Concubine: a woman joined to a man in a recognized way, but with fewer rights than the main wife. It was a custom of the time that the Bible tells without making it a model.
Where else “pilagsh” appearsprostitute oneself
To give one's body to others outside marriage, often for pay; the woman who does so.
Where else “tizne” appearsgo
To head for a place, to leave where one is in order to reach another.
Where else “telech” appearsfather
The man who begets a child and heads his household.
Where else “avi” appearshousehold
The family, everyone living under one roof.
Where else “bet” appearsBethlehem
See it on the mapWhere else “bet” appearsJudah
Judah, the fourth son of Jacob and Leah; also the tribe that came from him and its land, and later the southern kingdom; King David came from it. The name sounds like "give thanks". Borne also by other Israelites.
Where else “yehuda” appearsbe
To be: "I will be their Elohim".
Where else “tehi” appearstime
Literally "the days": a period, an age, or the span of someone's life.
Where else “yamim” appearsfour
Four.
Where else “arbaa” appearsmonth
A period of about thirty days, from one new moon to the next.
Where else “chodashim” appearsThe Hebrew uses the verb “prostitute oneself,” which here can be understood as meaning that she was unfaithful to him or left him.
Bethlehem
Today: Bethlehem (Bayt Lahm), West Bank
A town in Judea, about 5.5 miles (9 km) south of Jerusalem.
Rachel died near it (Gen 35:19), Naomi and Ruth lived there (Ruth 1:1), and David was born there. Micah said a ruler would come from it, and Jesus was born in Bethlehem (Mic 5:2; Matt 2:1).
1And it happened in those days, when there was no king in Israel, that there was a man, a Levite, residing as an alien in the remote parts of the hill country of Ephraim, and he took for himself a concubine from Bethlehem of Judah.
2 · This verse (above)
3Then her husband arose and went after her to speak to her heart, to bring her back; and his young man was with him, and a pair of donkeys. And she brought him into her father’s house, and when the father of the young woman saw him, he rejoiced to meet him.
