Concubine

See Marriage. CpNCUPISCENCE.— C. is intense desire {con- cupisccre intensive of concupere), always in a bad sense (so that ' cml c' of Col 3° is a redundancy in English), and nearly always meaning sexual lust. The Gr. is always i-iriOvixla, a more gener-al word thivn the Eng. 'concuiiiseence.' The passages are Wis 4'- (RV 'desire '), .Sir'23'(RV ' concu])i.scence '), Ro 7» (RV 'coveting'), Col 3" (RV 'desire'), 1 Th 4' (RV 'lust'). J. Hastings.