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 · הַכְזוֹנָ֕הThey said, “Should he deal with our sister as with a prostitute?”Genesis 38:15 · לְזוֹנָ֑הWhen Judah saw her, he thought that she was a prostitute, for she had covered her face.Genesis 38:24 · זָֽנְתָה֙It happened about three months later, that it was told Judah, saying, “Tamar, your daughter-in-law, has played the prostitute; and moreover, behold, she is with child by prostitution.” Judah said, “Bring her out, and let her be burnt.”Exodus 34:15 · וְזָנ֣וּ׀“Don’t make a covenant with the inhabitants of the land, lest they play the prostitute after their gods, and sacrifice to their gods, and one call you and you eat of his sacrifice;Exodus 34:16 · וְזָנ֣וּ · וְהִזְנוּ֙and you take of their daughters to your sons, and their daughters play the prostitute after their gods, and make your sons play the prostitute after their gods.Leviticus 17:7 · זֹנִ֖יםThey shall no more sacrifice their sacrifices to the goat idols, after which they play the prostitute. This shall be a statute forever to them throughout their generations.’Leviticus 19:29 · לְהַזְנוֹתָ֑הּ · תִזְנֶ֣ה“‘Don’t profane your daughter, to make her a prostitute; lest the land fall to prostitution, 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 who play the prostitute after him, to play the prostitute with Molech, from among their people.Leviticus 20:6 · לִזְנ֖וֹת“‘The person that turns to those who are mediums, and to the wizards, to play the prostitute after them, I will even set my face against that person, and will cut him off from among his people.Leviticus 21:7 · זֹנָ֤ה“‘They shall not marry a woman who is a prostitute, or profane; neither shall they marry a woman divorced from her husband: for he is holy to his God.Leviticus 21:9 · לִזְנ֑וֹת“‘The daughter of any priest, if she profanes herself by playing the prostitute, she profanes her father: she shall be burned with fire.Leviticus 21:14 · זֹנָ֔הA widow, or one divorced, or a woman who has been defiled, or a prostitute, these he shall not marry: but a virgin of his own people shall he take as a wife.Numbers 15:39 · זֹנִ֖יםand it shall be to you for a fringe, that you may look on it, and remember all the commandments of Yahweh, and do them; and that you not follow after your own heart and your own eyes, after which you use to play the prostitute;Numbers 25:1 · לִזְנ֖וֹתIsrael stayed in Shittim; and the people began to play the prostitute with the daughters of Moab:Deuteronomy 22:21 · לִזְנ֖וֹתthen they shall bring out the young lady to the door of her father’s house, and the men of her city shall stone her to death with stones, because she has done folly in Israel, to play the prostitute in her father’s house: so you shall put away the evil from the midst of you.Deuteronomy 23:18 · זוֹנָ֜הYou shall not bring the hire of a prostitute, or the wages of a dog, into the house of Yahweh your God for any vow: for even both these are an abomination to Yahweh your God.Deuteronomy 31:16 · וְזָנָ֣ה׀Yahweh said to Moses, “Behold, you shall sleep with your fathers; and this people will rise up, and play the prostitute after the strange gods of the land, where they go to be among them, and will forsake me, and break my covenant which I have made with them.Joshua 2:1 · זוֹנָ֛הJoshua the son of Nun secretly sent two men out of Shittim as spies, saying, “Go, view the land, including Jericho.” They went and came into the house of a prostitute whose name was Rahab, and slept there.Joshua 6:17 · הַזּוֹנָ֜הThe city shall be devoted, even it and all that is in it, to Yahweh. Only Rahab the prostitute shall live, she and all who are with her in the house, because she hid the messengers that we sent.Joshua 6:22 · הַזּוֹנָ֑הJoshua said to the two men who had spied out the land, “Go into the prostitute’s house, and bring out from there the woman and all that she has, as you swore to her.”Joshua 6:25 · הַ֠זּוֹנָהBut Rahab the prostitute, her father’s household, and all that she had, Joshua saved alive. She lived in the midst of Israel to this day, because she hid the messengers, whom Joshua sent to spy out Jericho.Judges 2:17 · זָנ֗וּYet they didn’t listen to their judges; for they played the prostitute after other gods, and bowed themselves down to them: they turned aside quickly out of the way in which their fathers walked, obeying the commandments of Yahweh. They didn’t do so.Judges 8:27 · וַיִּזְנ֧וּGideon made an ephod of it, and put it in his city, even in Ophrah: and all Israel played the prostitute after it there; and it became a snare to Gideon, and to his house.Judges 8:33 · וַיִּזְנ֖וּIt happened, as soon as Gideon was dead, that the children of Israel turned again, and played the prostitute after the Baals, 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 prostitute: and Gilead became the father of Jephthah.Judges 16:1 · זוֹנָ֔הSamson went to Gaza, and saw there a prostitute, and went in to her.Judges 19:2 · וַתִּזְנֶ֤הHis concubine played the prostitute against him, and went away from him to her father’s house to Bethlehem Judah, and was there the space of four months.1 Kings 3:16 · זֹנ֖וֹתThen two women who were prostitutes came to the king, and stood before him.1 Kings 22:38 · וְהַזֹּנ֖וֹתThey washed the chariot by the pool of Samaria; and the dogs licked up his blood where the prostitutes washed themselves; according to the word of Yahweh which he spoke.1 Chronicles 5:25 · וַיִּזְנ֗וּThey trespassed against the God of their fathers, and played the prostitute 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 prostitute, and led Judah astray.2 Chronicles 21:13 · וַתַּזְנֶ֤ה · כְּהַזְנ֖וֹתbut have walked in the way of the kings of Israel, and have made Judah and the inhabitants of Jerusalem to play the prostitute, like the house of Ahab did, and also have slain your brothers of your father’s house, who were better than yourself:Psalm 73:27 · זוֹנֶ֥הFor, behold, those who are far from you shall perish. You have destroyed all those who are unfaithful to you.Psalm 106:39 · וַ֝יִּזְנוּ֗Thus were they defiled with their works, and prostituted themselves in their deeds.Proverbs 6:26 · זוֹנָ֗הFor a prostitute reduces you to a piece of bread. The adulteress hunts for your precious life.Proverbs 7:10 · ז֝וֹנָ֗הBehold, there a woman met him with the attire of a prostitute, and with crafty intent.Proverbs 23:27 · זוֹנָ֑הFor a prostitute is a deep pit; and a wayward wife is a narrow well.Proverbs 29:3 · ז֝וֹנ֗וֹתWhoever loves wisdom brings joy to his father; but a companion of prostitutes squanders his wealth.Isaiah 1:21 · לְזוֹנָ֔הHow the faithful city has become a prostitute! She was full of justice; righteousness lodged in her, but now murderers.Isaiah 23:15 · הַזּוֹנָֽה׃It will come to pass in that day that Tyre will be forgotten seventy years, according to the days of one king. After the end of seventy years it will be to Tyre like in the song of the prostitute.Isaiah 23:16 · זוֹנָ֣הTake a harp; go about the city, you prostitute that has been forgotten. Make sweet melody. Sing many songs, that you may be remembered.Isaiah 23:17 · וְזָֽנְתָ֛הIt will happen after the end of seventy years that Yahweh will visit Tyre, and she shall return to her wages, and will play the prostitute with all the kingdoms of the world on the surface of the earth.Isaiah 57:3 · וַתִּזְנֶֽה׃“But draw near here, you sons of the sorceress, the seed of the adulterer and the prostitute.Jeremiah 2:20 · זֹנָֽה׃“For of old time I have broken your yoke, and burst your bonds; and you said, ‘I will not serve;’ for on every high hill and under every green tree you bowed yourself, playing the prostitute.Jeremiah 3:1 · זָנִית֙“They say, ‘If a man puts away his wife, and she goes from him, and become another man’s, will he return to her again?’ Wouldn’t that land be greatly polluted? But you have played the prostitute with many lovers; yet return again to me,” says Yahweh.Jeremiah 3:3 · זוֹנָה֙Therefore the showers have been withheld, and there has been no latter rain; yet you have a prostitute’s forehead, you refused to be ashamed.Jeremiah 3:6 · וַתִּזְנִי־Moreover, Yahweh said to me in the days of Josiah the king, “Have you seen that which backsliding Israel has done? She has gone up on every high mountain and under every green tree, and there has played the prostitute.Jeremiah 3:8 · וַתִּ֥זֶןI saw, when, for this very cause that backsliding Israel had committed adultery, I had put her away and given her a bill of divorce, yet treacherous Judah, her sister, didn’t fear; but she also went and played the prostitute.Jeremiah 5:7 · זוֹנָ֖ה“How can I pardon you? Your children have forsaken me, and sworn by what are no gods. When I had fed them to the full, they committed adultery, and assembled themselves in troops at the prostitutes’ houses.Hosea 1:2 · זָנֹ֤ה · תִזְנֶה֙When Yahweh spoke at first by Hosea, Yahweh said to Hosea, “Go, take for yourself a wife of prostitution and children of unfaithfulness; for the land commits great adultery, forsaking Yahweh.”Hosea 2:5 · זָֽנְתָה֙For their mother has played the prostitute. She who conceived them has done shamefully; for she said, ‘I will go after my lovers, who give me my bread and my water, my wool and my flax, my oil and my drink.’Hosea 3:3 · תִזְנִ֔יI said to her, “You shall stay with me many days. You shall not play the prostitute, and you shall not be with any other man. I will also be so toward you.”Hosea 4:10 · הִזְנ֖וּThey will eat, and not have enough. They will play the prostitute, and will not increase; because they have abandoned giving to Yahweh.Hosea 4:12 · וַיִּזְנ֖וּMy people consult with their wooden idol, and answer to a stick of wood. Indeed the spirit of prostitution has led them astray, and they have been unfaithful to their God.Hosea 4:13 · תִּזְנֶ֙ינָה֙They sacrifice on the tops of the mountains, and burn incense on the hills, under oaks and poplars and terebinths, because its shade is good. Therefore your daughters play the prostitute, and your brides commit adultery.Hosea 4:14 · תִזְנֶ֗ינָה · הַזֹּנ֣וֹתI will not punish your daughters when they play the prostitute, nor your brides when they commit adultery; because the men consort with prostitutes, and they sacrifice with the shrine prostitutes; so the people without understanding will come to ruin.Hosea 4:15 · זֹנֶ֤ה“Though you, Israel, play the prostitute, yet don’t let Judah offend; and don’t come to Gilgal, neither go up to Beth Aven, nor swear, ‘As Yahweh lives.’Hosea 4:18 · הַזְנֵ֣ה · הִזְנ֔וּTheir drink has become sour. They play the prostitute continually. Her rulers dearly love their shameful way.Hosea 5:3 · הִזְנֵ֣יתָI know Ephraim, and Israel is not hidden from me; for now, Ephraim, you have played the prostitute. Israel is defiled.Hosea 9:1 · זָנִ֖יתָDon’t rejoice, Israel, to jubilation like the nations; for you were unfaithful to your God. You love the wages of a prostitute at every grain threshing floor.Amos 7:17 · תִּזְנֶה֙Therefore thus says Yahweh: ‘Your wife shall be a prostitute in the city, and your sons and your daughters shall fall by the sword, and your land shall be divided by line; and you yourself shall die in a land that is unclean, and Israel shall surely be led away captive out of his land.’”Micah 1:7 · זוֹנָה֙ · זוֹנָ֖הAll her idols will be beaten to pieces, and all her temple gifts will be burned with fire, and all her images I will destroy; for of the hire of a prostitute has she gathered them, and to the hire of a prostitute shall they return.”Nahum 3:4 · זוֹנָ֔הbecause of the multitude of the prostitution of the alluring prostitute, the mistress of witchcraft, who sells nations through her prostitution, and families through her witchcraft.