Paramour

Webster's Dictionary

(1):

(n.) Love; gallantry.

(2):

(adv.) Alt. of Paramours

(3):

(n.) A lover, of either sex; a wooer or a mistress (formerly in a good sense, now only in a bad one); one who takes the place, without possessing the rights, of a husband or wife; - used of a man or a woman.

Holman Bible Dictionary

Ezekiel 23:20 Hosea 3:1

Cyclopedia of Biblical, Theological and Ecclesiastical Literature

is in one passage of the A.V. (Ezekiel 23:20) properly the rendering of פַּלֶּגֶשׁ, pille'gesh (whence the Greek παλλακίς ), a concubine (q.v.), as elsewhere rendered, being in every other instance used only of a female.

International Standard Bible Encyclopedia

par´a - moor ( פּלּגשׁ , pilleghesh , "a concubine," masculine or feminine): A term applied in Ezekiel 23:20 to the male lover, but elsewhere translated "concubine."