Karl:I got the definition from Brown Driver & Briggs and Koehler & Baumgartner's HALOT
assign or designate as concubine Ex 21:8, 21:9 (JE).1. to allocate a woman (female slave) Exodus 21:8,9 (Hoftijzer VT 7:388ff);
When he bought the girl, he designated her for himself,
giving her and her family certain expectations.The deceit is in not making her his wife or concubine as the arrangement had stipulated. The hiphal
means "to allow to be ransomed" (the daughter of an Israelite from slavery through debt) Exodus 21:8.Cassuto also say that that the hiphal may be translated "she may redeem herself."Make sense to me
Kevin
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