What the Bible Says About the Definition of Consort

Scripture

¹⁸ Then the Lord God said, “It is not good that the man should be alone; I will make him a helper fit for him.”
¹⁹ Now out of the ground the Lord God had formed every beast of the field and every bird of the heavens and brought them to the man to see what he would call them. And whatever the man called every living creature, that was its name.
²⁰ The man gave names to all livestock and to the birds of the heavens and to every beast of the field.
²¹ So the Lord God caused a deep sleep to fall upon the man, and while he slept took one of his ribs and closed up its place with flesh.
²² And the rib that the Lord God had taken from the man he made into a woman and brought her to the man.
²³ Then the man said, “This at last is bone of my bones and flesh of my flesh; she shall be called Woman, because she was taken out of Man.”
²⁴ Therefore a man shall leave his father and his mother and hold fast to his wife, and they shall become one flesh.
²⁵ And the man and his wife were both naked and were not ashamed.

Genesis 2:18-25

1 Kings 11:1-8: ³ He had seven hundred wives, princesses, and three hundred concubines. And his wives turned away his heart.
² from the nations concerning which the Lord had said to the people of Israel, “You shall not enter into marriage with them, neither shall they with you, for surely they will turn away your heart after their gods.” Solomon clung to these in love.
³ He had seven hundred wives, princesses, and three hundred concubines. And his wives turned away his heart.
⁴ For when Solomon was old his wives turned away his heart after other gods, and his heart was not wholly true to the Lord his God, as was the heart of David his father.
⁵ For Solomon went after Ashtoreth the goddess of the Sidonians, and after Milcom the abomination of the Ammonites.
⁶ So Solomon did what was evil in the sight of the Lord and did not wholly follow the Lord, as David his father had done.
⁷ Then Solomon built a high place for Chemosh the abomination of Moab, and for Molech the abomination of the Ammonites, on the mountain east of Jerusalem.
⁸ So Solomon did what was evil in the sight of the Lord and did not wholly follow the Lord, as David his father had done.

Esther 2:12-18: ¹² Now when the turn came for each young woman to go in to King Ahasuerus, after being twelve months under the regulations for the women, since this was the regular period of their beautifying, six months with oil of myrrh and six months with spices and ointments for women.
¹³ Then in this way the girl came to the king: whatever she desired was given her to go with her from the harem to the king’s palace.
¹⁴ In the evening she would go in, and in the morning she would return to the second harem, to the custody of Shaashgaz, the king’s eunuch, who was in charge of the concubines. She would not go in to the king again, unless the king delighted in her and she was summoned by name.
¹⁵ When the turn came for Esther the daughter of Abihail the uncle of Mordecai, who had taken her as his own daughter, to go in to the king, she asked for nothing except what Hegai the king’s eunuch, who had charge of the women, advised. And Esther won favor in the sight of all who saw her.
¹⁶ And when Esther was taken to King Ahasuerus, into his royal palace, in the tenth month, which is the month of Tebeth, in the seventh year of his reign,
¹⁷ the king loved Esther more than all the women, and she won grace and favor in his sight more than all the virgins, so that he set the royal crown on her head and made her queen instead of Vashti.
¹⁸ Then the king gave a great feast for all his officials and servants; it was Esther’s feast. He also granted a remission of taxes to the provinces and gave gifts with royal generosity.

Proverbs 31:10-31: ¹⁰ An excellent wife who can find?
She is far more precious than jewels.
¹¹ The heart of her husband trusts in her,
and he will have no lack of gain.
¹² She does him good, and not harm,
all the days of her life.
¹³ She seeks wool and flax, and works with willing hands.
¹⁴ She is like the ships of the merchant;
she brings her food from afar.
¹⁵ She rises while it is yet night and provides food for her household and portions for her maidens.
¹⁶ She considers a field and buys it;
with the fruit of her hands she plants a vineyard.
¹⁷ She dresses herself with strength
and makes her arms strong.
¹⁸ She perceives that her merchandise is profitable. Her lamp does not go out at night.
¹⁹ She puts her hands to the distaff,
and her hands hold the spindle.
²⁰ She opens her hand to the poor
and reaches out her hands to the needy.
²¹ She is not afraid of snow for her household,
for all her household are clothed in scarlet.
²² She makes bed coverings for herself;
her clothing is fine linen and purple.
²³ Her husband is known in the gates when he sits among the elders of the land.
²⁴ She makes linen garments and sells them; she delivers sashes to the merchant.
²⁵ Strength and dignity are her clothing,
and she laughs at the time to come.
²⁶ She opens her mouth with wisdom,
and the teaching of kindness is on her tongue.
²⁷ She looks well to the ways of her household
and does not eat the bread of idleness.
²⁸ Her children rise up and call her blessed;
her husband also, and he praises her:
²⁹ “Many women have done excellently,
but you surpass them all.”
³⁰ Charm is deceitful, and beauty is vain, but a woman who fears the Lord is to be praised.
³¹ Give her of the fruit of her hands,
and let her works praise her in the gates.

Song of Solomon 1:1-17: ¹ The song of songs, which is Solomon’s.
² Let him kiss me with the kisses of his mouth! For your love is better than wine;
³ Your anointing oils are fragrant; your name is oil poured out; therefore virgins love you.
⁴ Draw me after you; let us run. The king has brought me into his chambers. We will exult and rejoice in you; we will extol your love more than wine; rightly do they love you.
⁵ I am very dark, but lovely, O daughters of Jerusalem, like the tents of Kedar, like the curtains of Solomon.
⁶ Do not gaze at me because I am dark, because the sun has looked upon me. My mother’s sons were angry with me; they made me keeper of the vineyards, but my own vineyard I have not kept.
⁷ Tell me, you whom my soul loves, where you pasture your flock, where you make it lie down at noon; for why should I be like one who veils herself beside the flocks of your companions?
⁸ If you do not know, O most beautiful among women, follow in the tracks of the flock and graze your young goats beside the shepherds’ tents.
⁹ I compare you, my love, to a mare among Pharaoh’s chariots.
¹⁰ Your cheeks are lovely with ornaments, your neck with strings of jewels.
¹¹ We will make for you ornaments of gold, studded with silver.
¹² While the king was on his couch, my nard gave forth its fragrance.
¹³ As a sachet of myrrh, that lies between my breasts.
¹⁴ My beloved is to me a cluster of henna blossoms in the vineyards of En-gedi.
¹⁵ Behold, you are beautiful, my love; behold, you are beautiful; your eyes are doves.
¹⁶ Behold, you are beautiful, my beloved, truly delightful. Our couch is green.
¹⁷ The beams of our house are cedar; our rafters are pine.

Song of Solomon 2:1-17: ¹ I am a rose of Sharon, a lily of the valleys.
² As a lily among thorns, so is my love among the daughters.
³ As an apple tree among the trees of the wood, so is my beloved among the sons. I sat down under his shadow with great delight, and his fruit was sweet to my taste.
⁴ He brought me to the banqueting house, and his banner over me was love.
⁵ Sustain me with raisins; refresh me with apples, for I am sick with love.
⁶ His left hand is under my head, and his right hand embraces me.
⁷ I adjure you, O daughters of Jerusalem, by the gazelles or the does of the field, that you not stir up or awaken love until it pleases.
⁸ The voice of my beloved! Behold, he comes, leaping over the mountains, bounding over the hills.
⁹ My beloved is like a gazelle or a young stag; behold, there he stands behind our wall, gazing through the windows, looking through the lattice.
¹⁰ My beloved speaks and says to me: “Arise, my love, my beautiful one, and come away.
¹¹ For behold, the winter is past; the rain is over and gone.
¹² The flowers appear on the earth, the time of singing has come, and the voice of the turtle dove is heard in our land.
¹³ The fig tree ripens its figs, and the vines are in blossom; they give forth fragrance. Arise, my love, my beautiful one, and come away.
¹⁴ O my dove, in the clefts of the rock, in the secret places of the cliff, let me see your face, let me hear your voice, for your voice is sweet, and your face is lovely.
¹⁵ Catch the foxes for us, the little foxes that spoil the vineyards, for our vineyards are in blossom.
¹⁶ My beloved is mine, and I am his; he grazes among the lilies.
¹⁷ Until the day breathes and the shadows flee, turn, my beloved, and be like a gazelle or a young stag on the cleft mountains.

Song of Solomon 3:1-11: ¹ On my bed by night I sought him whom my soul loves; I sought him, but found him not.
² I said, “I will arise and go about the city, in the streets and in the squares; I will seek him whom my soul loves.” I sought him, but found him not.
³ The watchmen found me as they went about in the city. “Have you seen him whom my soul loves?”
⁴ Scarcely had I passed them when I found him whom my soul loves. I held him, and would not let him go until I had brought him into my mother’s house, and into the chamber of her who conceived me.
⁵ I adjure you, O daughters of Jerusalem, by the gazelles or the does of the field, that you not stir up or awaken love until it pleases.
⁶ What is that coming up from the wilderness, like a column of smoke, perfumed with myrrh and frankincense, with all the fragrant powders of a merchant?
⁷ Behold, it is the litter of Solomon! Around it are sixty mighty men, some of the mighty men of Israel.
⁸ Keep me as a seal upon your heart, as a seal upon your arm, for love is strong as death, jealousy is fierce as the grave. Its flashes are flashes of fire, the very flame of the Lord.
⁹ King Solomon made himself a carriage from the wood of Lebanon.
¹⁰ He made its posts of silver, its back of gold, its seat of purple; its interior was inlaid with love by the daughters of Jerusalem.
¹¹ Go out, O daughters of Zion, and look upon King Solomon, with the crown with which his mother crowned him on the day of his wedding, the day of the gladness of his heart.

Song of Solomon 4:1-16: ¹ Behold, you are beautiful, my love; behold, you are beautiful; your eyes are doves behind your veil. Your hair is like a flock of goats leaping down the slopes of Gilead.
² Your teeth are like a flock of shorn ewes that have come up from the washing, all of which bear twins, and not one among them has lost its young.
³ Your cheeks are like halves of a pomegranate behind your veil.
⁴ Your neck is like the tower of David, built in rows of stone; on it hang a thousand shields, all of them shields of warriors.
⁵ Your stature is like a palm tree, and your breasts are like its clusters.
⁶ Until the day breathes and the shadows flee, I will go away to the mountain of myrrh and the hill of frankincense.
⁷ You are altogether beautiful, my love; there is no flaw in you.
⁸ Come with me from Lebanon, my bride; come with me from Lebanon. Depart from the peak of Amana, from the peak of Senir and Hermon, from the dens of lions, from the mountains of leopards.
⁹ You have captivated my heart, my sister, my bride; you have captivated my heart with one glance of your eyes, with one jewel of your necklace.
¹⁰ How delightful is your love, my sister, my bride! How much better is your love than wine, and the fragrance of your oils more than any spice!
¹¹ Your lips drip nectar, O bride; honey and milk are under your tongue; and the fragrance of your garments is like the fragrance of Lebanon.
¹² A garden locked is my sister, my bride, a spring locked, a fountain sealed.
¹³ Your shoots are an orchard of pomegranates with all choicest fruits, henna with nard,
¹⁴ nard and saffron, calamus and cinnamon, with all trees of frankincense, myrrh and aloes, with all the choicest spices.
¹⁵ A garden fountain, a well of living water, and flowing streams from Lebanon.
¹⁶ Awake, O north wind, and come, O south wind! Blow upon my garden, let its spices flow. Let my beloved come to his garden and eat its choicest fruits.

Song of Solomon 5:1-16: ¹ I came to my garden, my sister, my bride; I gathered my myrrh with my spice; I ate my honeycomb with my honey; I drank my wine with my milk. Eat, friends, drink, and be drunk with love!
² I slept, but my heart was awake. A sound! My beloved is knocking. “Open to me, my sister, my love, my dove, my perfect one, for my head is wet with dew, my locks with the drops of the night.”
³ I have put off my garment; how could I put it on? I have washed my feet; how could I soil them?
⁴ My beloved put his hand to the latch, and my heart was thrilled within me.
⁵ I rose to open to my beloved, and my hands dripped with myrrh, my fingers with liquid myrrh, on the handles of the bolt.
⁶ I opened to my beloved, but my beloved had turned and gone; my soul failed me when he spoke. I sought him, but found him not; I called him, but he gave no answer.
⁷ The watchmen found me as they went about in the city; they beat me; they bruised me; they took away my veil, those watchmen of the walls.
⁸ I adjure you, O daughters of Jerusalem, if you find my beloved, that you tell him I am sick with love.
⁹ What is your beloved more than another beloved, O most beautiful among women? What is your beloved more than another beloved, that you thus adjure us?
¹⁰ My beloved is radiant and ruddy, distinguished among ten thousand.
¹¹ His head is the finest gold; his locks are wavy, black as a raven.
¹² His eyes are like doves beside streams of water, bathed in milk, sitting beside a full pool.
¹³ His cheeks are like beds of spices, mounds of sweet-smelling herbs. His lips are lilies, dripping liquid myrrh.
¹⁴ His arms are rods of gold, set with jewels; his body is like polished ivory, bedecked with sapphires.
¹⁵ His stature is like that of the cedars,
the choice of the trees of Lebanon.
¹⁶ His mouth is most sweet, and he is altogether desirable. This is my beloved and this is my friend, O daughters of Jerusalem.

Song of Solomon 6:1-13: ¹ Where has your beloved gone, O most beautiful among women? Where has your beloved turned, that we may seek him with you?
² My beloved has gone down to his garden, to the beds of spices, to graze in the gardens and to gather lilies.
³ I am my beloved’s and my beloved is mine; he grazes among the lilies.
⁴ You are beautiful as Tirzah, my love, lovely as Jerusalem, awesome as an army with banners.
⁵ Turn away your eyes from me, for they overwhelm me. Your hair is like a flock of goats leaping down the slopes of Gilead.
⁶ Your stature is like a palm tree, and your breasts are like its clusters.
⁷ Your cheeks are like halves of a pomegranate behind your veil.
⁸ There are sixty queens and eighty concubines, and virgins without number.
⁹ My dove, my perfect one, is only one, the only one of her mother, pure to her who bore her. The young women saw her and called her blessed; the queens and the concubines also, and they praised her.
¹⁰ Who is this that looks down like the dawn, beautiful as the moon, bright as the sun, awesome as an army with banners?
¹¹ I went down to the nut orchard to look at the blossoms of the valley, to see whether the vines had budded, whether the pomegranates were in bloom.
¹² Before I was aware, my desire set me among the chariots of my kinsman, a prince.
¹³ Return, return, O Shulammite; return, return, that we may look upon you. Why should you look upon the Shulammite, as upon a dance before two armies?

Song of Solomon 7:1-13: ¹ How beautiful are your feet in sandals, O noble daughter! Your rounded thighs are like jewels, the work of a master hand.
² Your stature is like a palm tree, and your breasts are like its clusters.
³ Your stature is like a palm tree, and your breasts are like its clusters.
⁴ Your stature is like a palm tree, and your breasts are like its clusters.
⁵ Your stature is like a palm tree, and your breasts are like its clusters.
⁶ How beautiful and pleasant you are, O loved one, with all your delights!
⁷ Your stature is like a palm tree, and your breasts are like its clusters.
⁸ I say, “I will climb the palm tree and lay hold of its fruit.” Oh, may your breasts be like clusters of the vine, and the scent of your breath like apples.
⁹ And the roof of your mouth like the best wine for my beloved, flowing gently over lips and teeth.
¹⁰ I am my beloved’s, and his desire is for me.
¹¹ Come, my beloved, let us go out to the fields and lodge in the villages.
¹² Let us go out early to the vineyards and see whether the vines have budded, whether the grape blossoms have opened and the pomegranates are in bloom. There I will give you my love.
¹³ The mandrakes give forth fragrance, and beside our doors are all choice fruits, new as well as old, which I have laid up for you, O my beloved.

Song of Solomon 8:1-14: ¹ Oh that you were like a brother to me,
who nursed at my mother’s breasts.
If I found you outside, I would kiss you,
and none would despise me.
² I would lead you and bring you into the house of my mother, and she would teach you what to say. I would give you spiced wine to drink, the juice of my pomegranate.
³ His left hand is under my head, and his right hand embraces me!
⁴ I adjure you, O daughters of Jerusalem, that you not stir up or awaken love until it pleases.
⁵ Who is that coming up from the wilderness, leaning on her beloved? Under the apple tree I awakened you. There your mother was in labor with you; there she who bore you was in labor.
⁶ Set me as a seal upon your heart, as a seal upon your arm, for love is strong as death, jealousy is fierce as the grave. Its flashes are flashes of fire, the very flame of the Lord.
⁷ Many waters cannot quench love, neither can floods drown it. If a man offered for love all the wealth of his house, he would be utterly despised.
⁸ We have a little sister, and she has no breasts. What shall we do for our sister on the day when she is spoken for?
⁹ If she is a wall, we will build on her a battlement of silver; but if she is a door, we will enclose her with boards of cedar.
¹⁰ I was a wall, and my breasts were like towers; then I was in his eyes as one who finds peace.
¹¹ Solomon had a vineyard at Baal-hamon; he let out the vineyard to keepers; each one was to bring for its fruit a thousand pieces of silver.
¹² My own vineyard is before me; you, O Solomon, may have the thousand, and the keepers of the fruit two hundred.
¹³ O you who dwell in the gardens, with companions listening for your voice; let me hear it.
¹⁴ Make haste, my beloved, and be like a gazelle or a young stag on the mountains of spices.

Ephesians 5:22-33: ²² Wives, submit to your own husbands, as to the Lord.
For the husband is the head of the wife even as Christ is the head of the church, his body, and is himself its Savior.
²⁴ Now as the church submits to Christ, so also wives should submit in everything to their husbands.
²⁵ Husbands, love your wives, as Christ loved the church and gave himself up for her,
²⁶ that he might sanctify her, having cleansed her by the washing of water with the word,
²⁷ so that he might present the church to himself in splendor, without spot or wrinkle or any such thing, that she might be holy and without blemish.
²⁸ In the same way husbands should love their wives as their own bodies. He who loves his wife loves himself.
²⁹ For no one ever hated his own flesh, but nourishes and cherishes it, just as Christ does the church,
³⁰ because we are members of his body.
³¹ “Therefore a man shall leave his father and mother and hold fast to his wife, and the two shall become one flesh.”
³² This mystery is profound, and I am saying that it refers to Christ and the church.
³³ However, let each one of you love his wife as himself, and let the wife see that she respects her husband.

1 Peter 3:1-7: ³ Likewise, wives, be subject to your own husbands, so that even if some do not obey the word, they may be won without a word by the conduct of their wives,
³ Do not let your adorning be external—the braiding of hair and the putting on of gold jewelry, or the clothing you wear—
³ Do not let your adorning be external—the braiding of hair and the putting on of gold jewelry, or the clothing you wear—
³ Do not let your adorning be external—the braiding of hair and the putting on of gold jewelry, or the clothing you wear—
⁵ For this is how the holy women who hoped in God used to adorn themselves, by submitting to their own husbands,
⁶ as Sarah obeyed Abraham, calling him lord. And you are her children, if you do good and do not fear anything that is frightening.
⁷ Likewise, husbands, live with your wives in an understanding way, showing honor to the woman as the weaker vessel, since they are heirs with you of the grace of life, so that your prayers may not be hindered.