ΠΑΛΛΑΚΑΙΣ, παλλακαις
PALLAKAIS, pallakais
Sounds Like: pal-LA-kais
Translations: to concubines, for concubines
From the root: ΠΑΛΛΑΚΙΣ
Part of Speech: Noun
Explanation: This word refers to a concubine, which is a woman who lives with a man but has lower status than a wife, often without full legal rights or recognition. In ancient contexts, concubines were common, especially among kings or wealthy individuals, and could bear children who might or might not have inheritance rights. This form of the word is in the dative case, indicating the indirect object of an action, often translated with "to" or "for."
Inflection: Plural, Dative, Feminine
Strong’s number: G3816 (Lookup on BibleHub)
Instances
Josephus' Antiquities of the Jews
From the same root
Below are all other words in our texts that we've cataloged as being from the same root, ΠΑΛΛΑΚΙΣ.
These could represent different words with related meanings, or different forms of the same word to fit different grammatical cases, numbers, or genders. This list may include spelling variants and even misspellings in the original manuscripts! Even more words from the same root may exist in other ancient texts that aren't in our database.
- ΠΑΛΛΑΚ — concubine, a concubine
- ΠΑΛΛΑΚΑ — concubine, a concubine
- ΠΑΛΛΑΚΙΔΑ — concubine, a concubine
- ΠΑΛΛΑΚΙΔΙ — (to) a concubine, (to) a mistress
- ΠΑΛΛΑΚΙΔΟΣ — of a concubine, of a mistress
- ΠΑΛΛΑΚΙΔΩΝ — of concubines, of a concubine
- ΠΑΛΛΑΚΙΣ — concubine, a concubine
- ΠΑΛΛΑΚΙΣΙΝ — concubine, a concubine
- ΠΑΛΛΑΚΩΝ — of concubines, of a concubine
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