His concubine, whose name was Reumah, also bore Tebah, Gaham, Tahash, and Maacah.
KJV
And his concubine, whose name was Reumah, she bare also Tebah, and Gaham, and Thahash, and Maachah.
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And his concubine, whose name was Reumah,.... Not an harlot, but a secondary wife, who was under the proper and lawful wife, and a sort of a head servant in the family, and chiefly kept for the procreation of children; which was not thought either unlawful or dishonourable in those times such as was Hagar in Abraham's family:
she bare also Tebah, and Gaham, and Thahash, and Maachah, of whom we have no account elsewhere; only it may be observed, that here Maachah is the name of a man, which sometimes is given to a woman,
Kg1 15:13
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