Kosbi

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Kosbi ( Hebrew כָּזְבִּי) is the name of a woman from the Old Testament of the Bible .

Kosbi, daughter of the Midian king Zur and lover of Zimri , was killed with him with a spear by Pinchas to appease the wrath of God . This was a plague on the Israelites sent when they are in Moab the fornication and idolatry devotions. ( Numbers 25.6-9  EU )

literature

  • HZ Sivan: The Rape of Cozbi (Numbers XXV). In: Vetus Testamentum 51 (2001) 69.
  • Max Sicherman: The political side of the Zimri-Cozbi affair. In: Jewish Bible Quarterly 36.1 (2008) 22-25, ISSN  0792-3910 , online (PDF; accessed March 27, 2018).