The woman in such a relationship is referred to as a concubine.

The principal difference in the Bible between a wife and a concubine is that wives had dowries, while concubines did not.

The Hebrew word used in the Levitical rules on sexual relations, which is commonly translated as " wife ", is distinct from the Hebrew word that means " concubine ".

Umm-ul-Momineen ( Mother of Muslims ) Maria Qibtia is reported to be another concubine gifted to Muhammad by the King Maqooqas in response to his letter inviting him towards Islam.

Change of Islamic law is not possible, but were there a concubine in the modern era, she must be given all her due rights that Islam has preserved in the past.

Sarah is barren, and tells Abram to take her Egyptian handmaiden, Hagar, as a concubine.

Quote: " Further, in their secret meetings they said that the Christ who was born in the earthly and visible Bethlehem and crucified at Jerusalem was ' evil ', and that Mary Magdalene was his concubine – and that she was the woman taken in adultery who is referred to in the Scriptures ; the ' good ' Christ, they said, neither ate nor drank nor assumed the true flesh and was never in this world, except spiritually in the body of Paul.

It is distinguished from relationships where a man has a sexual partner outside marriage, such as a concubine, casual sexual partner, paramour, cohabits with a married woman or other culturally but not legally recognized secondary partner.

In Miles Gloriosus, for instance, the female concubine ’ s name, Philocomasium, translates to “ lover of a good party ”— which is quite apt when we learn about the tricks and wild ways of this prostitute.

After he is murdered by his concubine consort Zhang.

His father never made Hokusai an heir, so it is possible that his mother was a concubine.

Of Phoenix's life before the Trojan War it is related that he was falsely accused by his father's concubine, Phthia or Clytia, of an attempt to seduce her ; alternatively, he actually did seduce her at the instigation of his mother.

She was later rumoured to have been Edward the Elder's concubine, but Barbara Yorke and Sarah Foot argue that the rumours were a product of the dispute over the succession in 924, and that there is no reason to doubt that she was Edward's legitimate wife.

Though no longer as prized as a concubine, Perrund is highly regarded by UrLeyn, DeWar, and most of Tassasen society.

A second version, supposedly written by Perrund herself, instead has DeWar telling the waiting guards and staff that UrLeyn is fine but sleeping, this and other distractions providing enough time for him and the former concubine to flee Tassasen before the Protector's body is discovered.

In the Blessing of Jacob, which some textual scholars date substantially later than these events, the tribe is characterised as fickle-unstable as water, and condemned to dwindle in power and size due to the incest of its eponymous founder with Jacob's concubine Bilha ;.

He also had a concubine who bore him a son that he named Abimelech ( which means " my father is king ").

According to Hyginus, the cause of the Titanomachy is as follows: " After Hera saw that Epaphus, born of a concubine, ruled such a great kingdom ( Egypt ), she saw to it that he should be killed while hunting, and encouraged the Titans to drive Zeus from the kingdom and restore it to Cronus, ( Saturn ).

She is to become the concubine of Heracles.

According to Seneca, Deianira is concerned if the captive Iole that Heracles took as his concubine will give brothers to her sons.

In Euripides ' The Trojan Women, Andromache despairs at the murder of her son Astyanax and is then given to Neoptolemus as a concubine.

In the Sörla þáttr, an Icelandic short story written by two Christian Priests in 15th century, Dvalin is the name of one of the four dwarves ( including Alfrigg, Berling and Grer ) who fashioned a necklace which was later acquired by a woman called Freyja, who is King Odin's concubine, after she agreed to spend a night with each of them.

A concubine was a free woman, often dowered for marriage, and her children were legitimate and lawful heirs.

Carloman had married a beautiful Frankish woman, Gerberga, who according to Pope Stephen III was chosen for him, together with Charlemagne's concubine, Himiltrude, by Pepin the Short.

Another chief wife was a Greek woman of Phocaea named Aspasia ( not the same as the concubine of Pericles ).

The Emperor Kiritsubo then hears of a woman (" Lady Fujitsubo "), formerly a princess of the preceding emperor, who resembles his deceased concubine, and later she becomes one of his wives.

The term paramour rights refers to the American practice of a white man taking a black woman to whom he was not married as his concubine.

The term is most commonly applied to a woman in a legally sanctioned marriage, and not to a woman in another cohabitation relationship such as a concubine, mistress etc.

His mother Sukirah, a local woman, was distantly related to Sultan Hamengkubuwono V by his first concubine.

One way a woman could get out of Yoshiwara was for a rich man to buy her contract from the brothel and keep her as his personal wife or concubine.

Emperor Ai's grandmother, Princess Dowager Fu of Dingtao ( concubine of Grand Empress Dowager Wang's husband Emperor Yuan ) was a domineering woman who ruled her grandson.

A concubine was defined by Roman law as a woman living in a permanent monogamous relationship with a man not her husband.

That woman over there will be my wife and you but a concubine because this is a political thing and we must weld peace out of this moment, enlist the Great Houses of the Landsraad.

With the support of the Boni Moroni thereon, the promise of an assured supply of beer to the Schlepping Guild ( who had been influenced to believe that the Hardchargins have been watering the beer, and are revealed to have the red-on-red eyes of beer addiction ), and after dispatching the ShaNaNa-Baron Flip-Rotha Hardchargin in rankout ( single insult-combat ), Pall Mauve ' Bib assumes Imperial control, banishing the Emperor's house to the prison plant Simplicissima Secundus, acquiring the hand of the Emperor's daughter Serutan in a marriage of convenience, and the Freedmenmen woman Loni as his concubine.

| Depasse reported the case of an American woman who, widowed at 39 years and menopaused at 49, became pregnant almost miraculously by her concubine just before 59, near 1890, to give birth at the age of 59 ½ to a son, who she had breastfed until 65, that he was 6 years.

Described as " skilled as a goddess ", " fair " and " proud ", Hecamede was not a concubine but a serving woman.

But after his death a woman, Inga of Varteig, whom Håkon had taken as a concubine for a time in 1203, appeared at the Birkebeiner court with an infant son who she claimed was Håkon's son.

Bewitched by his concubine Daji, who is actually a vixen spirit in disguise as a beautiful woman, King Zhou of Shang oppresses his people and persecutes those who oppose him, including his own subjects who dare to speak up to him.

Due to the geographical separation, the second woman often regards herself as a full wife for all practical matters, yet legally this marriage is not recognized, and she is treated as a concubine.

* Kösem Sultan-( 1581 – 1651 ) also known as Mehpeyker Sultan was the most powerful woman in Ottoman history, consort and favourite concubine of Ottoman Sultan Ahmed I ( r. 1603-1617 ), she became Valide Sultan from 1623 – 1651, when her sons Murad IV and Ibrahim I and her grandson Mehmed IV ( 1648 – 1687 ) reigned as Ottoman sultans ; she was the daughter of a priest from the island of Tinos-her maiden name was Anastasia

He had also a son named Radim ( Gaudentius ) by another woman ( probably a concubine ).