Judges 4:4

4:4 Now Deborah, a prophetess, ¹  wife of Lappidoth, was ²  leading ³  Israel at that time.

Judges 8:31

8:31 His concubine, ⁴  who lived in Shechem, also gave him a son, whom he named Abimelech. ⁵ 

[4:4]  ¹ tn Heb “ a woman, a prophetess.” In Hebrew idiom the generic “woman” sometimes precedes the more specific designation. See GKC 437-38 §135.b.

[4:4]  ² tn Heb “she was.” The pronoun refers back to the nominative absolute “Deborah.” Hebrew style sometimes employs such resumptive pronouns when lengthy qualifiers separate the subject from the verb.

[4:4]  ³ tn Or “judging.”

[8:31]  ⁴ sn A concubine was a slave woman in ancient Near Eastern societies who was the legal property of her master, but who could have legitimate sexual relations with her master. A concubine’s status was more elevated than a mere servant, but she was not free and did not have the legal rights of a free wife. The children of a concubine could, in some instances, become equal heirs with the children of the free wife. After the period of the Judges concubines may have become more of a royal prerogative (2 Sam 21:10-14; 1 Kgs 11:3).

[8:31]  ⁵ sn The name Abimelech means “my father is king.”