1) to commit fornication, be a harlot, play the harlot 1a) (Qal) 1a1) to be a harlot, act as a harlot, commit fornication 1a2) to commit adultery 1a3) to be a cult prostitute 1a4) to be unfaithful (to God) (fig.) 1b) (Pual) to play the harlot 1c) (Hiphil) 1c1) to cause to commit adultery 1c2) to force into prostitution 1c3) to commit fornication
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H2181 — זָנָה
za.nah · to fornicate · Hebrew/Aramaic
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Genesis 34:31 · הַכְזוֹנָ֕הAnd they said, Should he deal with our sister as with a harlot?Genesis 38:15 · לְזוֹנָ֑הWhen Judah saw her, he thought her to be a harlot; for she had covered her face.Genesis 38:24 · זָֽנְתָה֙And it came to pass about three months after, that it was told Judah, saying, Tamar thy daughter-in-law hath played the harlot; and moreover, behold, she is with child by whoredom. And Judah said, Bring her forth, and let her be burnt.Exodus 34:15 · וְזָנ֣וּ׀lest thou make a covenant with the inhabitants of the land, and they play the harlot after their gods, and sacrifice unto their gods, and one call thee and thou eat of his sacrifice;Exodus 34:16 · וְזָנ֣וּ · וְהִזְנוּ֙and thou take of their daughters unto thy sons, and their daughters play the harlot after their gods, and make thy sons play the harlot after their gods.Leviticus 17:7 · זֹנִ֖יםAnd they shall no more sacrifice their sacrifices unto the he-goats, after which they play the harlot. This shall be a statute forever unto them throughout their generations.Leviticus 19:29 · לְהַזְנוֹתָ֑הּ · תִזְנֶ֣הProfane not thy daughter, to make her a harlot; lest the land fall to whoredom, and the land become full of wickedness.Leviticus 20:5 · הַזֹּנִ֣ים · לִזְנ֛וֹתthen I will set my face against that man, and against his family, and will cut him off, and all that play the harlot after him, to play the harlot with Molech, from among their people.Leviticus 20:6 · לִזְנ֖וֹתAnd the soul that turneth unto them that have familiar spirits, and unto the wizards, to play the harlot after them, I will even set my face against that soul, and will cut him off from among his people.Leviticus 21:7 · זֹנָ֤הThey shall not take a woman that is a harlot, or profane; neither shall they take a woman put away from her husband: for he is holy unto his God.Leviticus 21:9 · לִזְנ֑וֹתAnd the daughter of any priest, if she profane herself by playing the harlot, she profaneth her father: she shall be burnt with fire.Leviticus 21:14 · זֹנָ֔הA widow, or one divorced, or a profane woman, a harlot, these shall he not take: but a virgin of his own people shall he take to wife.Numbers 15:39 · זֹנִ֖יםand it shall be unto you for a fringe, that ye may look upon it, and remember all the commandments of Jehovah, and do them; and that ye follow not after your own heart and your own eyes, after which ye use to play the harlot;Numbers 25:1 · לִזְנ֖וֹתAnd Israel abode in Shittim; and the people began to play the harlot with the daughters of Moab:Deuteronomy 22:21 · לִזְנ֖וֹתthen they shall bring out the damsel to the door of her father’s house, and the men of her city shall stone her to death with stones, because she hath wrought folly in Israel, to play the harlot in her father’s house: so shalt thou put away the evil from the midst of thee.Deuteronomy 23:18 · זוֹנָ֜הThou shalt not bring the hire of a harlot, or the wages of a dog, into the house of Jehovah thy God for any vow: for even both these are an abomination unto Jehovah thy God.Deuteronomy 31:16 · וְזָנָ֣ה׀And Jehovah said unto Moses, Behold, thou shalt sleep with thy fathers; and this people will rise up, and play the harlot after the strange gods of the land, whither they go to be among them, and will forsake me, and break my covenant which I have made with them.Joshua 2:1 · זוֹנָ֛הAnd Joshua the son of Nun sent out of Shittim two men as spies secretly, saying, Go, view the land, and Jericho. And they went and came into the house of a harlot whose name was Rahab, and lay there.Joshua 6:17 · הַזּוֹנָ֜הAnd the city shall be devoted, even it and all that is therein, to Jehovah: only Rahab the harlot shall live, she and all that are with her in the house, because she hid the messengers that we sent.Joshua 6:22 · הַזּוֹנָ֑הAnd Joshua said unto the two men that had spied out the land, Go into the harlot’s house, and bring out thence the woman, and all that she hath, as ye sware unto her.Joshua 6:25 · הַ֠זּוֹנָהBut Rahab the harlot, and her father’s household, and all that she had, did Joshua save alive; and she dwelt in the midst of Israel unto this day, because she hid the messengers, whom Joshua sent to spy out Jericho.Judges 2:17 · זָנ֗וּAnd yet they hearkened not unto their judges; for they played the harlot after other gods, and bowed themselves down unto them: they turned aside quickly out of the way wherein their fathers walked, obeying the commandments of Jehovah; but they did not so.Judges 8:27 · וַיִּזְנ֧וּAnd Gideon made an ephod thereof, and put it in his city, even in Ophrah: and all Israel played the harlot after it there; and it became a snare unto Gideon, and to his house.Judges 8:33 · וַיִּזְנ֖וּAnd it came to pass, as soon as Gideon was dead, that the children of Israel turned again, and played the harlot after the Baalim, and made Baal-berith their god.Judges 11:1 · זוֹנָ֑הNow Jephthah the Gileadite was a mighty man of valor, and he was the son of a harlot: and Gilead begat Jephthah.Judges 16:1 · זוֹנָ֔הAnd Samson went to Gaza, and saw there a harlot, and went in unto her.Judges 19:2 · וַתִּזְנֶ֤הAnd his concubine played the harlot against him, and went away from him unto her father’s house to Beth-lehem-judah, and was there the space of four months.1 Kings 3:16 · זֹנ֖וֹתThen there came two women that were harlots, unto the king, and stood before him.1 Kings 22:38 · וְהַזֹּנ֖וֹתAnd they washed the chariot by the pool of Samaria; and the dogs licked up his blood (now the harlots washed themselves there); according unto the word of Jehovah which he spake.1 Chronicles 5:25 · וַיִּזְנ֗וּAnd they trespassed against the God of their fathers, and played the harlot after the gods of the peoples of the land, whom God destroyed before them.2 Chronicles 21:11 · וַיֶּ֙זֶן֙Moreover he made high places in the mountains of Judah, and made the inhabitants of Jerusalem to play the harlot, and led Judah astray.2 Chronicles 21:13 · וַתַּזְנֶ֤ה · כְּהַזְנ֖וֹתbut hast walked in the way of the kings of Israel, and hast made Judah and the inhabitants of Jerusalem to play the harlot, like as the house of Ahab did, and also hast slain thy brethren of thy father’s house, who were better than thyself:Psalm 73:27 · זוֹנֶ֥הFor, lo, they that are far from thee shall perish: Thou hast destroyed all them that play the harlot, departing from thee.Psalm 106:39 · וַ֝יִּזְנוּ֗Thus were they defiled with their works, And played the harlot in their doings.Proverbs 6:26 · זוֹנָ֗הFor on account of a harlot a man is brought to a piece of bread; And the adulteress hunteth for the precious life.Proverbs 7:10 · ז֝וֹנָ֗הAnd, behold, there met him a woman With the attire of a harlot, and wily of heart.Proverbs 23:27 · זוֹנָ֑הFor a harlot is a deep ditch; And a foreign woman is a narrow pit.Proverbs 29:3 · ז֝וֹנ֗וֹתWhoso loveth wisdom rejoiceth his father; But he that keepeth company with harlots wasteth his substance.Isaiah 1:21 · לְזוֹנָ֔הHow is the faithful city become a harlot! she that was full of justice! righteousness lodged in her, but now murderers.Isaiah 23:15 · הַזּוֹנָֽה׃And it shall come to pass in that day, that Tyre shall be forgotten seventy years, according to the days of one king: after the end of seventy years it shall be unto Tyre as in the song of the harlot.Isaiah 23:16 · זוֹנָ֣הTake a harp, go about the city, thou harlot that hast been forgotten; make sweet melody, sing many songs, that thou mayest be remembered.Isaiah 23:17 · וְזָֽנְתָ֛הAnd it shall come to pass after the end of seventy years, that Jehovah will visit Tyre, and she shall return to her hire, and shall play the harlot with all the kingdoms of the world upon the face of the earth.Isaiah 57:3 · וַתִּזְנֶֽה׃But draw near hither, ye sons of the sorceress, the seed of the adulterer and the harlot.Jeremiah 2:20 · זֹנָֽה׃For of old time I have broken thy yoke, and burst thy bonds; and thou saidst, I will not serve; for upon every high hill and under every green tree thou didst bow thyself, playing the harlot.Jeremiah 3:1 · זָנִית֙They say, If a man put away his wife, and she go from him, and become another man’s, will he return unto her again? will not that land be greatly polluted? But thou hast played the harlot with many lovers; yet return again to me, saith Jehovah.Jeremiah 3:3 · זוֹנָה֙Therefore the showers have been withholden, and there hath been no latter rain; yet thou hast a harlot’s forehead, thou refusedst to be ashamed.Jeremiah 3:6 · וַתִּזְנִי־Moreover Jehovah said unto me in the days of Josiah the king, Hast thou seen that which backsliding Israel hath done? she is gone up upon every high mountain and under every green tree, and there hath played the harlot.Jeremiah 3:8 · וַתִּ֥זֶןAnd I saw, when, for this very cause that backsliding Israel had committed adultery, I had put her away and given her a bill of divorcement, yet treacherous Judah her sister feared not; but she also went and played the harlot.Jeremiah 5:7 · זוֹנָ֖הHow can I pardon thee? thy children have forsaken me, and sworn by them that are no gods: when I had fed them to the full, they committed adultery, and assembled themselves in troops at the harlots’ houses;Hosea 1:2 · זָנֹ֤ה · תִזְנֶה֙When Jehovah spake at the first by Hosea, Jehovah said unto Hosea, Go, take unto thee a wife of whoredom and children of whoredom; for the land doth commit great whoredom, departing from Jehovah.Hosea 2:5 · זָֽנְתָה֙for their mother hath played the harlot; she that conceived them hath done shamefully; for she said, I will go after my lovers, that give me my bread and my water, my wool and my flax, mine oil and my drink.Hosea 3:3 · תִזְנִ֔יand I said unto her, Thou shalt abide for me many days; thou shalt not play the harlot, and thou shalt not be any man’s wife: so will I also be toward thee.Hosea 4:10 · הִזְנ֖וּAnd they shall eat, and not have enough; they shall play the harlot, and shall not increase; because they have left off taking heed to Jehovah.Hosea 4:12 · וַיִּזְנ֖וּMy people ask counsel at their stock, and their staff declareth unto them; for the spirit of whoredom hath caused them to err, and they have played the harlot, departing from under their God.Hosea 4:13 · תִּזְנֶ֙ינָה֙They sacrifice upon the tops of the mountains, and burn incense upon the hills, under oaks and poplars and terebinths, because the shadow thereof is good: therefore your daughters play the harlot, and your brides commit adultery.Hosea 4:14 · תִזְנֶ֗ינָה · הַזֹּנ֣וֹתI will not punish your daughters when they play the harlot, nor your brides when they commit adultery; for the men themselves go apart with harlots, and they sacrifice with the prostitutes; and the people that doth not understand shall be overthrown.Hosea 4:15 · זֹנֶ֤הThough thou, Israel, play the harlot, yet let not Judah offend; and come not ye unto Gilgal, neither go ye up to Beth-aven, nor swear, As Jehovah liveth.Hosea 4:18 · הַזְנֵ֣ה · הִזְנ֔וּTheir drink is become sour; they play the harlot continually; her rulers dearly love shame.Hosea 5:3 · הִזְנֵ֣יתָI know Ephraim, and Israel is not hid from me; for now, O Ephraim, thou hast played the harlot, Israel is defiled.Hosea 9:1 · זָנִ֖יתָRejoice not, O Israel, for joy, like the peoples; for thou hast played the harlot, departing from thy God; thou hast loved hire upon every grain-floor.Amos 7:17 · תִּזְנֶה֙therefore thus saith Jehovah: Thy wife shall be a harlot in the city, and thy sons and thy daughters shall fall by the sword, and thy land shall be divided by line; and thou thyself shalt die in a land that is unclean, and Israel shall surely be led away captive out of his land.Micah 1:7 · זוֹנָה֙ · זוֹנָ֖הAnd all her graven images shall be beaten to pieces, and all her hires shall be burned with fire, and all her idols will I lay desolate; for of the hire of a harlot hath she gathered them, and unto the hire of a harlot shall they return.Nahum 3:4 · זוֹנָ֔הbecause of the multitude of the whoredoms of the well-favored harlot, the mistress of witchcrafts, that selleth nations through her whoredoms, and families through her witchcrafts.