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 · הַכְזוֹנָ֕הBut they replied, “Should he have treated our sister like a prostitute?”Genesis 38:15 · לְזוֹנָ֑הWhen Judah saw her, he thought she was a prostitute because she had covered her face.Genesis 38:24 · זָֽנְתָה֙About three months later, Judah was told, “Your daughter-in-law Tamar has prostituted herself, and now she is pregnant.” “Bring her out!” Judah replied. “Let her be burned to death!”Exodus 34:15 · וְזָנ֣וּ׀Do not make a covenant with the inhabitants of the land, for when they prostitute themselves to their gods and sacrifice to them, they will invite you, and you will eat their sacrifices.Exodus 34:16 · וְזָנ֣וּ · וְהִזְנוּ֙And when you take some of their daughters as brides for your sons, their daughters will prostitute themselves to their gods and cause your sons to do the same.Leviticus 17:7 · זֹנִ֖יםThey must no longer offer their sacrifices to the goat demons to which they have prostituted themselves. This will be a permanent statute for them for the generations to come.’Leviticus 19:29 · לְהַזְנוֹתָ֑הּ · תִזְנֶ֣הYou must not defile your daughter by making her a prostitute, or the land will be prostituted and filled with depravity.Leviticus 20:5 · הַזֹּנִ֣ים · לִזְנ֛וֹתthen I will set My face against that man and his family and cut off from among their people both him and all who follow him in prostituting themselves with Molech.Leviticus 20:6 · לִזְנ֖וֹתWhoever turns to mediums or spiritists to prostitute himself with them, I will also set My face against that person and cut him off from his people.Leviticus 21:7 · זֹנָ֤הA priest must not marry a woman defiled by prostitution or divorced by her husband, for the priest is holy to his God.Leviticus 21:9 · לִזְנ֑וֹתIf a priest’s daughter defiles herself by prostituting herself, she profanes her father; she must be burned in the fire.Leviticus 21:14 · זֹנָ֔הHe is not to marry a widow, a divorced woman, or one defiled by prostitution. He is to marry a virgin from his own people,Numbers 15:39 · זֹנִ֖יםThese will serve as tassels for you to look at, so that you may remember all the commandments of the LORD, that you may obey them and not prostitute yourselves by following your own heart and your own eyes.Numbers 25:1 · לִזְנ֖וֹתWhile Israel was staying in Shittim, the men began to indulge in sexual immorality with the daughters of Moab,Deuteronomy 22:21 · לִזְנ֖וֹתshe shall be brought to the door of her father’s house, and there the men of her city will stone her to death. For she has committed an outrage in Israel by being promiscuous in her father’s house. So you must purge the evil from among you.Deuteronomy 23:18 · זוֹנָ֜הYou must not bring the wages of a prostitute, whether female or male, into the house of the LORD your God to fulfill any vow, because both are detestable to the LORD your God.Deuteronomy 31:16 · וְזָנָ֣ה׀And the LORD said to Moses, “You will soon rest with your fathers, and these people will rise up and prostitute themselves with the foreign gods of the land they are entering. They will forsake Me and break the covenant I have made with them.Joshua 2:1 · זוֹנָ֛הThen Joshua son of Nun secretly sent two spies from Shittim, saying, “Go, inspect the land, especially Jericho.” So they went and entered the house of a prostitute named Rahab and stayed there.Joshua 6:17 · הַזּוֹנָ֜הNow the city and everything in it must be devoted to the LORD for destruction. Only Rahab the prostitute and all those with her in her house will live, because she hid the spies we sent.Joshua 6:22 · הַזּוֹנָ֑הMeanwhile, Joshua told the two men who had spied out the land, “Go into the house of the prostitute and bring out the woman and all who are with her, just as you promised her.”Joshua 6:25 · הַ֠זּוֹנָהAnd Joshua spared Rahab the prostitute, with her father’s household and all who belonged to her, because she hid the men Joshua had sent to spy out Jericho. So she has lived among the Israelites to this day.Judges 2:17 · זָנ֗וּIsrael, however, did not listen to their judges. Instead, they prostituted themselves with other gods and bowed down to them. They quickly turned from the way of their fathers, who had walked in obedience to the LORD’s commandments; they did not do as their fathers had done.Judges 8:27 · וַיִּזְנ֧וּFrom all this Gideon made an ephod, which he placed in Ophrah, his hometown. But soon all Israel prostituted themselves by worshiping it there, and it became a snare to Gideon and his household.Judges 8:33 · וַיִּזְנ֖וּAnd as soon as Gideon was dead, the Israelites turned and prostituted themselves with the Baals, and they set up Baal-berith as their god.Judges 11:1 · זוֹנָ֑הNow Jephthah the Gileadite was a mighty man of valor; he was the son of a prostitute, and Gilead was his father.Judges 16:1 · זוֹנָ֔הOne day Samson went to Gaza, where he saw a prostitute and went in to spend the night with her.Judges 19:2 · וַתִּזְנֶ֤הBut she was unfaithful to him and left him to return to her father’s house in Bethlehem in Judah. After she had been there four months,1 Kings 3:16 · זֹנ֖וֹתAt that time two prostitutes came to the king and stood before him.1 Kings 22:38 · וְהַזֹּנ֖וֹתAnd the chariot was washed at the pool of Samaria where the prostitutes bathed, and the dogs licked up Ahab’s blood, according to the word that the LORD had spoken.1 Chronicles 5:25 · וַיִּזְנ֗וּBut they were unfaithful to the God of their fathers, and they prostituted themselves with the gods of the peoples of the land, whom God had destroyed before them.2 Chronicles 21:11 · וַיֶּ֙זֶן֙Jehoram had also built high places on the hills of Judah; he had caused the people of Jerusalem to prostitute themselves and had led Judah astray.2 Chronicles 21:13 · וַתַּזְנֶ֤ה · כְּהַזְנ֖וֹתbut you have walked in the ways of the kings of Israel and have caused Judah and the people of Jerusalem to prostitute themselves, just as the house of Ahab prostituted itself. You have also killed your brothers, your father’s family, who were better than you.Psalm 73:27 · זוֹנֶ֥הThose far from You will surely perish; You destroy all who are unfaithful to You.Psalm 106:39 · וַ֝יִּזְנוּ֗They defiled themselves by their actions and prostituted themselves by their deeds.Proverbs 6:26 · זוֹנָ֗הFor the levy of the prostitute is poverty, and the adulteress preys upon your very life.Proverbs 7:10 · ז֝וֹנָ֗הThen a woman came out to meet him, with the attire of a harlot and cunning of heart.Proverbs 23:27 · זוֹנָ֑הFor a prostitute is a deep pit, and an adulteress is a narrow well.Proverbs 29:3 · ז֝וֹנ֗וֹתA man who loves wisdom brings joy to his father, but a companion of prostitutes squanders his wealth.Isaiah 1:21 · לְזוֹנָ֔הSee how the faithful city has become a harlot! She once was full of justice; righteousness resided within her, but now only murderers!Isaiah 23:15 · הַזּוֹנָֽה׃At that time Tyre will be forgotten for seventy years—the span of a king’s life. But at the end of seventy years, it will happen to Tyre as in the song of the harlot:Isaiah 23:16 · זוֹנָ֣ה“Take up your harp, stroll through the city, O forgotten harlot. Make sweet melody, sing many a song, so you will be remembered.”Isaiah 23:17 · וְזָֽנְתָ֛הAnd at the end of seventy years, the LORD will restore Tyre. Then she will return to hire as a prostitute and sell herself to all the kingdoms on the face of the earth.Isaiah 57:3 · וַתִּזְנֶֽה׃“But come here, you sons of a sorceress, you offspring of adulterers and prostitutes!Jeremiah 2:20 · זֹנָֽה׃“For long ago you broke your yoke and tore off your chains, saying, ‘I will not serve!’ Indeed, on every high hill and under every green tree you lay down as a prostitute.Jeremiah 3:1 · זָנִית֙“If a man divorces his wife and she leaves him to marry another, can he ever return to her? Would not such a land be completely defiled? But you have played the harlot with many lovers—and you would return to Me?” declares the LORD.Jeremiah 3:3 · זוֹנָה֙Therefore the showers have been withheld, and no spring rains have fallen. Yet you have the brazen look of a prostitute; you refuse to be ashamed.Jeremiah 3:6 · וַתִּזְנִי־Now in the days of King Josiah, the LORD said to me, “Have you seen what faithless Israel has done? She has gone up on every high hill and under every green tree to prostitute herself there.Jeremiah 3:8 · וַתִּ֥זֶןShe saw that because faithless Israel had committed adultery, I gave her a certificate of divorce and sent her away. Yet that unfaithful sister Judah had no fear and prostituted herself as well.Jeremiah 5:7 · זוֹנָ֖ה“Why should I forgive you? Your children have forsaken Me and sworn by gods that are not gods. I satisfied their needs, yet they committed adultery and assembled at the houses of prostitutes.Hosea 1:2 · זָנֹ֤ה · תִזְנֶה֙When the LORD first spoke through Hosea, He told him, “Go, take a prostitute as your wife and have children of adultery, because this land is flagrantly prostituting itself by departing from the LORD.”Hosea 2:5 · זָֽנְתָה֙For their mother has played the harlot and has conceived them in disgrace. For she thought, ‘I will go after my lovers, who give me bread and water, wool and linen, oil and drink.’Hosea 3:3 · תִזְנִ֔יThen I said to her, “You must live with me for many days; you must not be promiscuous or belong to another, and I will do the same for you.”Hosea 4:10 · הִזְנ֖וּThey will eat but not be satisfied; they will be promiscuous but not multiply. For they have abandoned the LORD to give themselvesHosea 4:12 · וַיִּזְנ֖וּMy people consult their wooden idols, and their divining rods inform them. For a spirit of prostitution leads them astray and they have played the harlot against their God.Hosea 4:13 · תִּזְנֶ֙ינָה֙They sacrifice on the mountaintops and burn offerings on the hills, under oak, poplar, and terebinth, because their shade is pleasant. And so your daughters turn to prostitution and your daughters-in-law to adultery.Hosea 4:14 · תִזְנֶ֗ינָה · הַזֹּנ֣וֹתI will not punish your daughters when they prostitute themselves, nor your daughters-in-law when they commit adultery. For the men themselves go off with prostitutes and offer sacrifices with shrine prostitutes. So a people without understanding will come to ruin.Hosea 4:15 · זֹנֶ֤הThough you prostitute yourself, O Israel, may Judah avoid such guilt! Do not journey to Gilgal, do not go up to Beth-aven, and do not swear on oath, ‘As surely as the LORD lives!’Hosea 4:18 · הַזְנֵ֣ה · הִזְנ֔וּWhen their liquor is gone, they turn to prostitution; their rulers dearly love disgrace.Hosea 5:3 · הִזְנֵ֣יתָI know all about Ephraim, and Israel is not hidden from Me. For now, O Ephraim, you have turned to prostitution; Israel is defiled.Hosea 9:1 · זָנִ֖יתָDo not rejoice, O Israel, with exultation like the nations, for you have played the harlot against your God; you have made love for hire on every threshing floor.Amos 7:17 · תִּזְנֶה֙Therefore this is what the LORD says: ‘Your wife will become a prostitute in the city, and your sons and daughters will fall by the sword. Your land will be divided by a measuring line, and you yourself will die on pagan soil. And Israel will surely go into exile, away from their homeland.’”Micah 1:7 · זוֹנָה֙ · זוֹנָ֖הAll her carved images will be smashed to pieces; all her wages will be burned in the fire, and I will destroy all her idols. Since she collected the wages of a prostitute, they will be used again on a prostitute.Nahum 3:4 · זוֹנָ֔הbecause of the many harlotries of the harlot, the seductive mistress of sorcery, who betrays nations by her prostitution and clans by her witchcraft.