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);
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
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
Isaiah 1:21 - become an harlot city How is the faithful it was full of judgment righteousness lodged in it but now murderers
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
Isaiah 57:3 - But draw near hither ye sons of the sorceress the seed of the adulterer and the whore
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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