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