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con·cu·bines

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Numerology

  1. Chaldean Numerology

    The numerical value of concubines in Chaldean Numerology is: 4

  2. Pythagorean Numerology

    The numerical value of concubines in Pythagorean Numerology is: 6

Examples of concubines in a Sentence

  1. Massoud Barzani:

    People are afraid to send their girls out because they are afraid they might be taken as concubines for the emirs or fighters; they are afraid to send young boys out to run errands because they're afraid they might be taken as fighters for ISIS.

  2. Ryan Mauro:

    The pledge to ‘ make your wives concubines and make your children our slaves ’ is referring to Americans, too, it's a sentence that should remind us of the price that The Islamic State intends to make women and even children pay.

  3. Kenneth Ruoff:

    There's only two ways to continue an all-male line. One is to have concubines, which I don't think the people of Japan would accept ... The other would be to have lots of collateral families, which would get complicated, if they aren't going to change the law, this will happen again, there won't be a male heir. Maybe not for one hundred, two hundred years - but why not change the law now?

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