Strong's H2181: זָנָה (zânâh) 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);
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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