H2181 Definition

Strong's number
H2181
Lemma
זָנָה
Transliteration
zânâh
Pronunciation
zaw-naw'
Strong's definition
to commit adultery (usually of the female, and less often of simple fornication, rarely of involuntary ravishment); figuratively, to commit idolatry (the Jewish people being regarded as the spouse of Jehovah) (cause to) commit fornication, [idiom] continually, [idiom] great, (be an, play the) harlot, (cause to be, play the) whore, (commit, fall to) whoredom, (cause to) go a-whoring, whorish. a primitive root (highly-fed and therefore wanton);

82 instances of the word זָנָה zânâh (H2181)

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  • Hosea 1:2 - The beginning of the word And the LORD by Hosea said And the LORD by Hosea take unto thee a wife of whoredoms and children of whoredoms hath committed great hath committed great for the land departing from And the LORD

  • Micah 1:7 - And all the graven images thereof shall be beaten to pieces and all the hires thereof shall be burned with the fire and all the idols thereof will I lay desolate and all the hires of an harlot for she gathered and all the hires of an harlot and they shall return

  • Isaiah 1:21 - become an harlot city How is the faithful it was full of judgment righteousness lodged in it but now murderers

  • Joshua 2:1 - sent And Joshua the son of Nun out of Shittim two to spy secretly saying view the land even Jericho and came house into an harlot's named Rahab and lodged

  • Hosea 2:5 - hath played the harlot For their mother them hath done shamefully she that conceived for she said after my lovers that give me my bread and my water my wool and my flax mine oil and my drink

  • Judges 2:17 - unto their judges And yet they would not hearken but they went a whoring after gods other and bowed themselves unto them they turned quickly out of the way walked in which their fathers And yet they would not hearken the commandments of the LORD but they did

  • Jeremiah 2:20 - For of old time I have broken thy yoke and burst thy bands and thou saidst I will not transgress hill when upon every high tree and under every green thou wanderest playing the harlot

  • Jeremiah 3:1 - They say put away If a man his wife and she go If a man from him and become another shall he return unto her again be greatly be greatly shall not that land but thou hast played the harlot lovers with many shall he return unto her again to me saith the LORD

  • Hosea 3:3 - And I said days for me many unto her Thou shalt abide thou shalt not play the harlot and thou shalt not be for another man

  • Jeremiah 3:3 - have been withholden Therefore the showers and there hath been no latter rain forehead and thou hadst a whore's thou refusedst to be ashamed

  • Joel 3:3 - for my people And they have cast lots and have given a boy for an harlot a girl and sold for wine that they might drink

  • Nahum 3:4 - Because of the multitude of the whoredoms harlot of the wellfavoured the mistress of witchcrafts that selleth nations of the whoredoms and families of witchcrafts

  • Jeremiah 3:6 - said The LORD also unto me in the days of Josiah the king Hast thou seen hath done that which backsliding Israel she is gone up mountain upon every high and under tree every green and there hath played the harlot

  • Jeremiah 3:8 - And I saw when for all the causes committed adultery whereby backsliding Israel I had put her away and given her a bill of divorce feared yet her treacherous Judah sister and played the harlot

  • 1 Kings 3:16 - Then came there two women that were harlots unto the king and stood before

  • Hosea 4:10 - For they shall eat and not have enough they shall commit whoredom and shall not increase to the LORD because they have left off to take heed

  • Hosea 4:12 - My people counsel at their stocks ask and their staff declareth unto them for the spirit of whoredoms hath caused them to err and they have gone a whoring from under their God

  • Hosea 4:13 - upon the tops of the mountains They sacrifice upon the hills and burn incense under oaks and poplars and elms thereof is good because the shadow shall commit whoredom therefore your daughters and your spouses shall commit adultery

  • Hosea 4:14 - I will not punish your daughters when they commit whoredom nor your spouses when they commit adultery when they commit whoredom for themselves are separated with harlots and they sacrifice therefore the people that doth not understand shall fall

  • Hosea 4:15 - play the harlot Though thou Israel offend yet let not Judah and come not ye unto Gilgal neither go ye up to Bethaven nor swear liveth The LORD

  • Hosea 4:18 - is sour Their drink continually continually do love Give with shame her rulers

  • Hosea 5:3 - I know Ephraim and Israel is not hid thou committest whoredom Ephraim is defiled and Israel

  • Jeremiah 5:7 - How thee for this shall I pardon shall I pardon thy children have forsaken me and sworn by them that are no gods me and sworn they then committed adultery ' houses in the harlots and assembled themselves by troops

  • 1 Chronicles 5:25 - And they transgressed against the God of their fathers and went a whoring after against the God of the people of the land destroyed against the God before

  • Ezekiel 6:9 - of you shall remember And they that escape me among the nations whither they shall be carried captives because I am broken heart which go a whoring which hath departed from me and with their eyes which go a whoring after their idols and they shall lothe themselves for the evils which they have committed in all their abominations

  • Joshua 6:17 - And the city shall be accursed even it and all that are therein to the LORD 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 - unto the two men that had spied out the country had said But Joshua Go house thence the woman into the harlot's and bring out thence the woman and all that she hath as ye sware

  • Joshua 6:25 - Rahab the harlot household and her father's alive And Joshua and all that she had and she dwelleth in Israel even unto this day because she hid the messengers sent And Joshua to spy out Jericho

  • Proverbs 6:26 - For by means of and the adulteress a whorish a man is brought to a piece of bread and the adulteress life for the precious will hunt

  • Proverbs 7:10 - him a woman And behold there met with the attire of an harlot and subtil of heart

  • Amos 7:17 - Therefore thus saith the LORD Thy wife in the city shall be an harlot and thy sons and thy daughters by the sword shall fall and thy land by line shall be divided in and thy land a polluted and thou shalt die and Israel go into captivity go into captivity in and thy land

  • Judges 8:27 - made And Gideon an ephod thereof and put it in his city even in Ophrah went thither a whoring and all Israel after And Gideon and to his house it which thing became a snare

  • Judges 8:33 - was dead And it came to pass as soon as Gideon turned again that the children of Israel and went a whoring after Baalim and made Baalberith their god

  • Hosea 9:1 - Rejoice not O Israel for joy as other people for thou hast gone a whoring from thy God thou hast loved a reward upon every cornfloor

  • Judges 11:1 - Jephthah the Gileadite was a mighty man of valour and he was the son of an harlot begat and Gilead Jephthah

  • Numbers 15:39 - And it shall be unto you for a fringe that ye may look upon it and remember all the commandments of the LORD and do them and that ye seek after your own heart after and your own eyes which ye use to go a whoring after

  • Judges 16:1 - Samson to Gaza and saw there an harlot and went in

  • Ezekiel 16:15 - But thou didst trust in thine own beauty and playedst the harlot because of thy renown and pouredst out thy fornications on every one that passed by

  • Ezekiel 16:16 - thou didst take And of thy garments and deckedst thy high places with divers colours and playedst the harlot thereupon the like things shall not come

  • Ezekiel 16:17 - Thou hast also taken jewels thy fair of my gold and of my silver which I had given thee and madest to thyself images of men and didst commit whoredom

  • Ezekiel 16:26 - Thou hast also committed fornication with the Egyptians thy neighbours great of flesh and hast increased thy whoredoms to provoke me to anger

  • Ezekiel 16:28 - Thou hast played the whore also with the Assyrians because thou wast unsatiable Thou hast played the whore with them and yet couldest not be satisfied

  • Ezekiel 16:30 - How weak is thine heart saith the Lord GOD seeing thou doest all these things the work woman whorish of an imperious

  • Ezekiel 16:31 - In that thou buildest thine eminent place in the head of every way thine high place and makest in every street and hast not been as an harlot in that thou scornest hire

  • Ezekiel 16:33 - to all whores They give gifts They give thy gifts to all thy lovers and hirest them that they may come unto thee on every side for thy whoredom

  • Ezekiel 16:34 - unto thee therefore thou art And the contrary is in thee from other women in thy whoredoms whereas none followeth thee to commit whoredoms and in that thou givest a reward a reward and in that thou givest unto thee therefore thou art And the contrary

  • Ezekiel 16:35 - Wherefore O harlot hear the word of the LORD

  • Ezekiel 16:41 - And they shall burn thine houses with fire and execute judgments upon thee in the sight women of many and I will cause thee to cease from playing the harlot no hire and thou also shalt give

  • Leviticus 17:7 - And they shall no more offer their sacrifices unto devils whom they have gone a whoring after This shall be a statute for ever unto them throughout their generations

  • Judges 19:2 - played the whore And his concubine house from him unto her father's to Bethlehemjudah whole and was there four months

  • Leviticus 19:29 - Do not prostitute thy daughter fall to whoredom fall to whoredom and the land become full and the land of wickedness

  • Leviticus 20:5 - Then I will set my face against that man and against his family and will cut him off and all that go a whoring after and all that go a whoring after with Molech from among their people

  • Leviticus 20:6 - And the soul that turneth after such as have familiar spirits after wizards to go a whoring after them I will even set my face And the soul and will cut him off from among his people

  • Ezekiel 20:30 - Thus saith unto the house of Israel Thus saith the Lord GOD after the manner of your fathers Are ye polluted after their abominations and commit ye whoredom

  • Leviticus 21:7 - a wife that is a whore or profane They shall not take a wife put away from her husband They shall not take for he is holy unto his God

  • Leviticus 21:9 - And the daughter of any priest if she profane herself by playing the whore her father if she profane with fire she shall be burnt

  • 2 Chronicles 21:11 - Moreover he made high places in the mountains Judah to commit fornication and caused the inhabitants of Jerusalem and compelled Judah

  • 2 Chronicles 21:13 - in the way of the kings of Israel like to the whoredoms and hast made Judah and the inhabitants of Jerusalem like to the whoredoms house of Ahab thy brethren house of thy father's which were better and also hast slain

  • Leviticus 21:14 - A widow or a divorced woman or profane or an harlot but he shall take a virgin of his own people but he shall take to wife

  • Deuteronomy 22:21 - Then they shall bring out the damsel to the door house in her father's shall stone of her city her with stones that she die because she hath wrought folly in Israel to play the whore house in her father's away evil from among

  • Ezekiel 23:3 - And they committed whoredoms in Egypt in their youth And they committed whoredoms pressed there were their breasts and there they bruised the teats of their virginity

  • Ezekiel 23:5 - played the harlot And Aholah when she was mine and she doted on her lovers on the Assyrians her neighbours

  • Isaiah 23:15 - And it shall come to pass in that day shall be forgotten shall Tyre of seventy years And it shall come to pass in that day king of one after the end of seventy years shall Tyre sing as an harlot

  • Isaiah 23:16 - Take an 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 - And it shall come to pass after the end of seventy years will visit that the LORD Tyre and she shall turn to her hire and shall commit fornication with all the kingdoms of the world upon the face of the earth

  • Deuteronomy 23:18 - Thou shalt not bring the hire of a whore or the price of a dog into the house of the LORD thy God for any vow these are abomination of the LORD thy God for even both

  • Ezekiel 23:19 - Yet she multiplied her whoredoms in calling to remembrance the days of her youth wherein she had played the harlot in the land of Egypt

  • Proverbs 23:27 - ditch is a deep For a whore pit woman is a narrow and a strange

  • Ezekiel 23:30 - I will do these things unto thee because thou hast gone a whoring after the heathen and because thou art polluted with their idols

  • Ezekiel 23:43 - Then said I unto her that was old in adulteries Will they now commit whoredoms

  • Ezekiel 23:44 - Yet they went in Yet they went in unto a woman that playeth the harlot Yet they went in unto Aholah and unto Aholibah unto a woman the lewd

  • Numbers 25:1 - abode And Israel in Shittim began and the people to commit whoredom with the daughters of Moab

  • Proverbs 29:3 - Whoso loveth wisdom rejoiceth his father but he that keepeth company with harlots spendeth his substance

  • Deuteronomy 31:16 - said And the LORD unto Moses Behold thou shalt sleep with thy fathers will rise up and this people and go a whoring after the gods of the strangers of the land whither they go to be among them and will forsake me and break my covenant which I have made

  • Exodus 34:15 - Lest thou make a covenant with the inhabitants of the land and they go a whoring after their gods and do sacrifice their gods and one call thee and thou eat of his sacrifice

  • Exodus 34:16 - And thou take and their daughters thy sons and make and their daughters after their gods and make thy sons after their gods

  • Genesis 34:31 - And they said as with an harlot Should he deal with our sister

  • Genesis 38:15 - saw her When Judah he thought her to be an harlot because she had covered her face

  • Genesis 38:24 - And it came to pass about three months after that it was told And Judah said hath played the harlot Tamar thy daughter in law and also behold she is with child by whoredom said And Judah Bring her forth and let her be burnt

  • Isaiah 57:3 - But draw near hither ye sons of the sorceress the seed of the adulterer and the whore

  • Psalms 73:27 - For lo they that are far from thee shall perish thou hast destroyed all them that go a whoring

  • Psalms 106:39 - Thus were they defiled with their own works and went a whoring with their own inventions

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