Word Study · Strong's H2181 · Hebrew
זָנָה
zanah
zaw-naw'
Strong's 1890 spelling: zânâh
“to commit adultery (usually of the female, and less often of simple fornication, rarely of involuntary ravishment)”
Strong's Dictionary · 1890 · public domain
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)
Rendered in the KJV as
(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.
- 94occurrencesin the Old Testament
- 20 of 39Old Testament bookswhere the word stands
- 78inflected formsdistinct spellings
Across 94 occurrences
The word itself
Inflected forms · 78
- זוֹנָ֑ה3
- זוֹנָ֔ה3
- זוֹנָ֖ה3
- לִזְנ֖וֹת3
- וַיִּזְנ֖וּ2
- וַתִּ֥זֶן2
- וַתִּזְנִ֖י2
- וַתִּזְנִי־2
- זוֹנָה֙2
- זֹנ֖וֹת2
- זֹנִ֖ים2
- זָֽנְתָה֙2
and 66 more spellings in the ledger below.
How it is rendered · 59
- a prostitute17
- and you acted as a prostitute5
- the prostitute4
- and they acted as prostitutes3
- prostitutes3
- and she acted as a prostitute2
- and they played [the] prostitute2
- and they will prostitute themselves2
- by acting as a prostitute2
- O prostitute2
- they acted as prostitutes2
- they prostitute themselves2
The sense the word carries at each spot — how the translators read it there, not a fixed translation.
How it parses · 40
- verb · simple (qal), participle (“the one who…”) · feminine singular19
- Hc/Vqw2fs6
- Hc/Vqw3mp5
- preposition + verb · simple (qal), infinitive (“to…”)5
- Hc/Vqw3fs4
- the definite article (“the”) + verb · simple (qal), participle (“the one who…”) · feminine singular4
- preposition + verb · simple (qal), participle (“the one who…”) · feminine singular3
- verb · simple (qal), ongoing or future action · 3rd person feminine singular3
- verb · simple (qal), completed action · 3rd person feminine singular3
- verb · simple (qal), participle (“the one who…”) · feminine plural3
- verb · simple (qal), participle (“the one who…”) · masculine plural3
- Hc/Vqq3cp2
Show the grammar codes as tagged
- HVqrfsa · 19
- Hc/Vqw2fs · 6
- Hc/Vqw3mp · 5
- HR/Vqcc · 5
- Hc/Vqw3fs · 4
- HTd/Vqrfsa · 4
- HR/Vqrfsa · 3
- HVqi3fs · 3
- HVqp3fs · 3
- HVqrfpa · 3
- HVqrmpa · 3
- Hc/Vqq3cp · 2
All 94, in canonical order
The ledger of occurrences
Where this word lives
- Ezekiel22 of 94 · 23%
- Hosea14 of 94 · 15%
- Leviticus9 of 94 · 10%
- Judges6 of 94 · 6%
- Jeremiah6 of 94 · 6%
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Genesis3 occurrences
- Genesis 34:31הַכְזוֹנָ֕הhakhzonahquestion particle + preposition + verb · simple (qal), participle (“the one who…”) · feminine singularBut they replied, “Should he have treated our sister like a prostitute?”here: ¿ like a prostitute
- Genesis 38:15לְזוֹנָ֑הlezonahpreposition + verb · simple (qal), participle (“the one who…”) · feminine singularWhen Judah saw her, he thought she was a prostitute because she had covered her face.here: to a prostitute
- Genesis 38:24זָֽנְתָה֙zanetahverb · simple (qal), completed action · 3rd person feminine singularAbout three months later, Judah was told, “Your daughter-in-law Tamar has prostituted herself, and now she is pregnant.” “Bring her out!” Judah replied. “Let her be burned to death!”here: she has acted as a prostitute
Exodus3 occurrences
- Exodus 34:15וְזָנ֣וּ׀vezanuHc/Vqq3cpDo not make a covenant with the inhabitants of the land, for when they prostitute themselves to their gods and sacrifice to them, they will invite you, and you will eat their sacrifices.here: and they will prostitute themselves
- Exodus 34:16וְזָנ֣וּvezanuHc/Vqq3cpAnd when you take some of their daughters as brides for your sons, their daughters will prostitute themselves to their gods and cause your sons to do the same.here: and they will prostitute themselves
- Exodus 34:16וְהִזְנוּ֙vehiznuHc/Vhq3cpAnd when you take some of their daughters as brides for your sons, their daughters will prostitute themselves to their gods and cause your sons to do the same.here: and they will make prostitute [themselves]
Leviticus9 occurrences
- Leviticus 17:7זֹנִ֖יםzonimverb · simple (qal), participle (“the one who…”) · masculine pluralThey must no longer offer their sacrifices to the goat demons to which they have prostituted themselves. This will be a permanent statute for them for the generations to come.’here: [are] prostituting themselves
- Leviticus 19:29לְהַזְנוֹתָ֑הּlehaznotahpreposition + verb · causative (hiphil), infinitive (“to…”) + pronoun suffix · 3rd person feminine singularYou must not defile your daughter by making her a prostitute, or the land will be prostituted and filled with depravity.here: by making prostitute [herself] her
- Leviticus 19:29תִזְנֶ֣הtiznehverb · simple (qal), ongoing or future action · 3rd person feminine singularYou must not defile your daughter by making her a prostitute, or the land will be prostituted and filled with depravity.here: it will prostitute itself
- Leviticus 20:5הַזֹּנִ֣יםhazonimthe definite article (“the”) + verb · simple (qal), participle (“the one who…”) · masculine pluralthen I will set My face against that man and his family and cut off from among their people both him and all who follow him in prostituting themselves with Molech.here: those [who] act as prostitutes
- Leviticus 20:5לִזְנ֛וֹתliznotpreposition + verb · simple (qal), infinitive (“to…”)then I will set My face against that man and his family and cut off from among their people both him and all who follow him in prostituting themselves with Molech.here: by acting as prostitutes
- Leviticus 20:6לִזְנ֖וֹתliznotpreposition + verb · simple (qal), infinitive (“to…”)Whoever turns to mediums or spiritists to prostitute himself with them, I will also set My face against that person and cut him off from his people.here: to act as a prostitute
- Leviticus 21:7זֹנָ֤הzonahverb · simple (qal), participle (“the one who…”) · feminine singularA priest must not marry a woman defiled by prostitution or divorced by her husband, for the priest is holy to his God.here: a prostitute
- Leviticus 21:9לִזְנ֑וֹתliznotpreposition + verb · simple (qal), infinitive (“to…”)If a priest’s daughter defiles herself by prostituting herself, she profanes her father; she must be burned in the fire.here: by acting as a prostitute
- Leviticus 21:14זֹנָ֔הzonahverb · simple (qal), participle (“the one who…”) · feminine singularHe is not to marry a widow, a divorced woman, or one defiled by prostitution. He is to marry a virgin from his own people,here: a prostitute
Numbers2 occurrences
- Numbers 15:39זֹנִ֖יםzonimverb · simple (qal), participle (“the one who…”) · masculine pluralThese will serve as tassels for you to look at, so that you may remember all the commandments of the LORD, that you may obey them and not prostitute yourselves by following your own heart and your own eyes.here: [are] acting as prostitutes
- Numbers 25:1לִזְנ֖וֹתliznotpreposition + verb · simple (qal), infinitive (“to…”)While Israel was staying in Shittim, the men began to indulge in sexual immorality with the daughters of Moab,here: to commit fornication
Deuteronomy3 occurrences
- Deuteronomy 22:21לִזְנ֖וֹתliznotpreposition + verb · simple (qal), infinitive (“to…”)she shall be brought to the door of her father’s house, and there the men of her city will stone her to death. For she has committed an outrage in Israel by being promiscuous in her father’s house. So you must purge the evil from among you.here: by acting as a prostitute
- Deuteronomy 23:18זוֹנָ֜הzonahverb · simple (qal), participle (“the one who…”) · feminine singularYou must not bring the wages of a prostitute, whether female or male, into the house of the LORD your God to fulfill any vow, because both are detestable to the LORD your God.here: a prostitute
- Deuteronomy 31:16וְזָנָ֣ה׀vezanahHc/Vqq3msAnd the LORD said to Moses, “You will soon rest with your fathers, and these people will rise up and prostitute themselves with the foreign gods of the land they are entering. They will forsake Me and break the covenant I have made with them.here: and it will act as a prostitute
Joshua4 occurrences
- Joshua 2:1זוֹנָ֛הzonahverb · simple (qal), participle (“the one who…”) · feminine singularThen Joshua son of Nun secretly sent two spies from Shittim, saying, “Go, inspect the land, especially Jericho.” So they went and entered the house of a prostitute named Rahab and stayed there.here: a prostitute
- Joshua 6:17הַזּוֹנָ֜הhazonahthe definite article (“the”) + verb · simple (qal), participle (“the one who…”) · feminine singularNow the city and everything in it must be devoted to the LORD for destruction. Only Rahab the prostitute and all those with her in her house will live, because she hid the spies we sent.here: the prostitute
- Joshua 6:22הַזּוֹנָ֑הhazonahthe definite article (“the”) + verb · simple (qal), participle (“the one who…”) · feminine singularMeanwhile, Joshua told the two men who had spied out the land, “Go into the house of the prostitute and bring out the woman and all who are with her, just as you promised her.”here: the prostitute
- Joshua 6:25הַ֠זּוֹנָהhazonahthe definite article (“the”) + verb · simple (qal), participle (“the one who…”) · feminine singularAnd Joshua spared Rahab the prostitute, with her father’s household and all who belonged to her, because she hid the men Joshua had sent to spy out Jericho. So she has lived among the Israelites to this day.here: the prostitute
Judges6 occurrences
- Judges 2:17זָנ֗וּzanuverb · simple (qal), completed action · 3rd person common pluralIsrael, however, did not listen to their judges. Instead, they prostituted themselves with other gods and bowed down to them. They quickly turned from the way of their fathers, who had walked in obedience to the LORD’s commandments; they did not do as their fathers had done.here: they acted as prostitutes
- Judges 8:27וַיִּזְנ֧וּvaiyiznuHc/Vqw3mpFrom all this Gideon made an ephod, which he placed in Ophrah, his hometown. But soon all Israel prostituted themselves by worshiping it there, and it became a snare to Gideon and his household.here: and they acted as prostitutes
- Judges 8:33וַיִּזְנ֖וּvaiyiznuHc/Vqw3mpAnd as soon as Gideon was dead, the Israelites turned and prostituted themselves with the Baals, and they set up Baal-berith as their god.here: and they acted as prostitutes
- Judges 11:1זוֹנָ֑הzonahverb · simple (qal), participle (“the one who…”) · feminine singularNow Jephthah the Gileadite was a mighty man of valor; he was the son of a prostitute, and Gilead was his father.here: a prostitute
- Judges 16:1זוֹנָ֔הzonahverb · simple (qal), participle (“the one who…”) · feminine singularOne day Samson went to Gaza, where he saw a prostitute and went in to spend the night with her.here: a prostitute
- Judges 19:2וַתִּזְנֶ֤הvatiznehHc/Vqw3fsBut she was unfaithful to him and left him to return to her father’s house in Bethlehem in Judah. After she had been there four months,here: and she was angry
1 Kings2 occurrences
- 1 Kings 3:16זֹנ֖וֹתzonotverb · simple (qal), participle (“the one who…”) · feminine pluralAt that time two prostitutes came to the king and stood before him.here: prostitutes
- 1 Kings 22:38וְהַזֹּנ֖וֹתvehazonotconjunction (“and”) + the definite article (“the”) + verb · simple (qal), participle (“the one who…”) · feminine pluralAnd the chariot was washed at the pool of Samaria where the prostitutes bathed, and the dogs licked up Ahab’s blood, according to the word that the LORD had spoken.here: and the prostitutes
2 Chronicles3 occurrences
- 2 Chronicles 21:11וַיֶּ֙זֶן֙vaiyezenHc/Vhw3msJehoram had also built high places on the hills of Judah; he had caused the people of Jerusalem to prostitute themselves and had led Judah astray.here: and he made prostitute [themselves]
- 2 Chronicles 21:13וַתַּזְנֶ֤הvataznehHc/Vhw2msbut you have walked in the ways of the kings of Israel and have caused Judah and the people of Jerusalem to prostitute themselves, just as the house of Ahab prostituted itself. You have also killed your brothers, your father’s family, who were better than you.here: and you have made prostitute [themselves]
- 2 Chronicles 21:13כְּהַזְנ֖וֹתkehaznotpreposition + verb · causative (hiphil), infinitive (“to…”)but you have walked in the ways of the kings of Israel and have caused Judah and the people of Jerusalem to prostitute themselves, just as the house of Ahab prostituted itself. You have also killed your brothers, your father’s family, who were better than you.here: as made [them] prostitute [themselves]
Psalms2 occurrences
- Psalms 73:27זוֹנֶ֥הzonehverb · simple (qal), participle (“the one who…”) · masculine singularThose far from You will surely perish; You destroy all who are unfaithful to You.here: [one who] acts as a prostitute
- Psalms 106:39וַ֝יִּזְנוּ֗vaiyiznuHc/Vqw3mpThey defiled themselves by their actions and prostituted themselves by their deeds.here: and they played [the] prostitute
Proverbs4 occurrences
- Proverbs 6:26זוֹנָ֗הzonahverb · simple (qal), participle (“the one who…”) · feminine singularFor the levy of the prostitute is poverty, and the adulteress preys upon your very life.here: a prostitute
- Proverbs 7:10ז֝וֹנָ֗הzonahverb · simple (qal), participle (“the one who…”) · feminine singularThen a woman came out to meet him, with the attire of a harlot and cunning of heart.here: a prostitute
- Proverbs 23:27זוֹנָ֑הzonahverb · simple (qal), participle (“the one who…”) · feminine singularFor a prostitute is a deep pit, and an adulteress is a narrow well.here: a prostitute
- Proverbs 29:3ז֝וֹנ֗וֹתzonotverb · simple (qal), participle (“the one who…”) · feminine pluralA man who loves wisdom brings joy to his father, but a companion of prostitutes squanders his wealth.here: prostitutes
Isaiah5 occurrences
- Isaiah 1:21לְזוֹנָ֔הlezonahpreposition + verb · simple (qal), participle (“the one who…”) · feminine singularSee how the faithful city has become a harlot! She once was full of justice; righteousness resided within her, but now only murderers!here: into a prostitute
- Isaiah 23:15הַזּוֹנָֽה׃hazonahthe definite article (“the”) + verb · simple (qal), participle (“the one who…”) · feminine singularAt that time Tyre will be forgotten for seventy years—the span of a king’s life. But at the end of seventy years, it will happen to Tyre as in the song of the harlot:here: the prostitute
- Isaiah 23:16זוֹנָ֣הzonahverb · simple (qal), participle (“the one who…”) · feminine singular“Take up your harp, stroll through the city, O forgotten harlot. Make sweet melody, sing many a song, so you will be remembered.”here: O prostitute
- Isaiah 23:17וְזָֽנְתָ֛הvezanetahHc/Vqq3fsAnd at the end of seventy years, the LORD will restore Tyre. Then she will return to hire as a prostitute and sell herself to all the kingdoms on the face of the earth.here: and it will act [the] prostitute
- Isaiah 57:3וַתִּזְנֶֽה׃vatiznehHc/Vqw3fs“But come here, you sons of a sorceress, you offspring of adulterers and prostitutes!here: and she has played [the] prostitute
Jeremiah6 occurrences
- Jeremiah 2:20זֹנָֽה׃zonahverb · simple (qal), participle (“the one who…”) · feminine singular“For long ago you broke your yoke and tore off your chains, saying, ‘I will not serve!’ Indeed, on every high hill and under every green tree you lay down as a prostitute.here: a prostitute
- Jeremiah 3:1זָנִית֙zanitverb · simple (qal), completed action · 2nd person feminine singular“If a man divorces his wife and she leaves him to marry another, can he ever return to her? Would not such a land be completely defiled? But you have played the harlot with many lovers— and you would return to Me?” declares the LORD.here: you have acted as a prostitute
- Jeremiah 3:3זוֹנָה֙zonahverb · simple (qal), participle (“the one who…”) · feminine singularTherefore the showers have been withheld, and no spring rains have fallen. Yet you have the brazen look of a prostitute; you refuse to be ashamed.here: a prostitute
- Jeremiah 3:6וַתִּזְנִי־vatizni-Hc/Vqw2fsNow in the days of King Josiah, the LORD said to me, “Have you seen what faithless Israel has done? She has gone up on every high hill and under every green tree to prostitute herself there.here: and she has acted as a prostitute
- Jeremiah 3:8וַתִּ֥זֶןvatizenHc/Vqw3fsShe saw that because faithless Israel had committed adultery, I gave her a certificate of divorce and sent her away. Yet that unfaithful sister Judah had no fear and prostituted herself as well.here: and she acted as a prostitute
- Jeremiah 5:7זוֹנָ֖הzonahverb · simple (qal), participle (“the one who…”) · feminine singular“Why should I forgive you? Your children have forsaken Me and sworn by gods that are not gods. I satisfied their needs, yet they committed adultery and assembled at the houses of prostitutes.here: a prostitute
Ezekiel22 occurrences
- Ezekiel 6:9הַזּוֹנֶ֗הhazonehthe definite article (“the”) + verb · simple (qal), participle (“the one who…”) · masculine singularThen in the nations to which they have been carried captive, your survivors will remember Me—how I have been grieved by their adulterous hearts that turned away from Me, and by their eyes that lusted after idols. So they will loathe themselves for the evil they have done and for all their abominations.here: [which] plays the prostitute
- Ezekiel 6:9הַזֹּנ֕וֹתhazonotthe definite article (“the”) + verb · simple (qal), participle (“the one who…”) · feminine pluralThen in the nations to which they have been carried captive, your survivors will remember Me—how I have been grieved by their adulterous hearts that turned away from Me, and by their eyes that lusted after idols. So they will loathe themselves for the evil they have done and for all their abominations.here: [which] play the prostitute
- Ezekiel 16:15וַתִּזְנִ֖יvatizniHc/Vqw2fsBut because of your fame, you trusted in your beauty and played the harlot. You lavished your favors on everyone who passed by, and your beauty was theirs for the asking.here: and you acted as a prostitute
- Ezekiel 16:16וַתִּזְנִ֖יvatizniHc/Vqw2fsYou took some of your garments and made colorful high places for yourself, and on them you prostituted yourself. Such things should not have happened; never should they have occurred!here: and you acted as a prostitute
- Ezekiel 16:17וַתִּזְנִי־vatizni-Hc/Vqw2fsYou also took the fine jewelry of gold and silver I had given you, and you made male idols with which to prostitute yourself.here: and you acted as a prostitute
- Ezekiel 16:26וַתִּזְנִ֧יvatizniHc/Vqw2fsYou prostituted yourself with your lustful neighbors, the Egyptians, and increased your promiscuity to provoke Me to anger.here: and you acted as a prostitute
- Ezekiel 16:28וַתִּזְנִי֙vatizniHc/Vqw2fsThen you prostituted yourself with the Assyrians, because you were not yet satisfied. Even after that, you were still not satisfied.here: and you acted as a prostitute
- Ezekiel 16:28וַתִּזְנִ֕יםvatiznimHc/Vqw2fs/Sp3mpThen you prostituted yourself with the Assyrians, because you were not yet satisfied. Even after that, you were still not satisfied.here: and you acted as a prostitute with them
- Ezekiel 16:30זוֹנָ֖הzonahverb · simple (qal), participle (“the one who…”) · feminine singularHow weak-willed is your heart, declares the Lord GOD, while you do all these things, the acts of a shameless prostitute!here: a prostitute
- Ezekiel 16:31כַּזּוֹנָ֖הkazonahpreposition with the article + verb · simple (qal), participle (“the one who…”) · feminine singularBut when you built your mounds at the head of every street and made your lofty shrines in every public square, you were not even like a prostitute, because you scorned payment.here: like the prostitute
- Ezekiel 16:33זֹנ֖וֹתzonotverb · simple (qal), participle (“the one who…”) · feminine pluralMen give gifts to all their prostitutes, but you gave gifts to all your lovers. You bribed them to come to you from everywhere for your illicit favors.here: prostitutes
- Ezekiel 16:34זוּנָּ֑הzunahverb · intensive passive (pual), completed action · 3rd person masculine singularSo your prostitution is the opposite of that of other women: No one solicited your favors, and you paid a fee instead of receiving one; so you are the very opposite!here: it was approached for prostitution
- Ezekiel 16:35זוֹנָ֔הzonahverb · simple (qal), participle (“the one who…”) · feminine singularTherefore, O prostitute, hear the word of the LORD!here: O prostitute
- Ezekiel 16:41מִזּוֹנָ֔הmizonahpreposition + verb · simple (qal), participle (“the one who…”) · feminine singularThen they will burn down your houses and execute judgment against you in the sight of many women. I will put an end to your prostitution, and you will never again pay your lovers.here: from a prostitute
- Ezekiel 20:30זֹנִֽים׃zonimverb · simple (qal), participle (“the one who…”) · masculine pluralTherefore tell the house of Israel that this is what the Lord GOD says: Will you defile yourselves the way your fathers did, prostituting yourselves with their abominations?here: acting as prostitutes
- Ezekiel 23:3וַתִּזְנֶ֣ינָהvatizneinahHc/Vqw3fpand they played in Egypt, prostituting themselves from their youth. Their breasts were fondled there, and their virgin bosoms caressed.here: and they acted as prostitutes
- Ezekiel 23:3זָנ֑וּzanuverb · simple (qal), completed action · 3rd person common pluraland they played in Egypt, prostituting themselves from their youth. Their breasts were fondled there, and their virgin bosoms caressed.here: they acted as prostitutes
- Ezekiel 23:5וַתִּ֥זֶןvatizenHc/Vqw3fsOholah prostituted herself while she was still Mine. She lusted after her lovers, the Assyrians—warriorshere: and she acted as a prostitute
- Ezekiel 23:19זָנְתָ֖הzanetahverb · simple (qal), completed action · 3rd person feminine singularYet she multiplied her promiscuity, remembering the days of her youth, when she had prostituted herself in the land of Egypthere: she acted as a prostitute
- Ezekiel 23:30בִּזְנוֹתֵךְ֙biznotekhpreposition + verb · simple (qal), infinitive (“to…”) + pronoun suffix · 2nd person feminine singularhave brought these things upon you, because you have prostituted yourself with the nations and defiled yourself with their idols.here: because acted as a prostitute you
- Ezekiel 23:43יִזְנ֥וּyiznuhverb · simple (qal), ongoing or future action · 3rd person masculine pluralThen I said of her who had grown old in adulteries: ‘Now let them use her as a prostitute, for that is all she is!’here: they will act as a prostitutes
- Ezekiel 23:44זוֹנָ֑הzonahverb · simple (qal), participle (“the one who…”) · feminine singularAnd they slept with her as with a prostitute; they slept with Oholah and Oholibah, those lewd women.here: a prostitute
Hosea14 occurrences
- Hosea 1:2זָנֹ֤הzanohverb · simple (qal), infinitive absoluteWhen the LORD first spoke through Hosea, He told him, “Go, take a prostitute as your wife and have children of adultery, because this land is flagrantly prostituting itself by departing from the LORD.”here: continually prostitute itself
- Hosea 1:2תִזְנֶה֙tiznehverb · simple (qal), ongoing or future action · 3rd person feminine singularWhen the LORD first spoke through Hosea, He told him, “Go, take a prostitute as your wife and have children of adultery, because this land is flagrantly prostituting itself by departing from the LORD.”here: it prostitutes itself
- Hosea 2:5זָֽנְתָה֙zanetahverb · simple (qal), completed action · 3rd person feminine singularFor their mother has played the harlot and has conceived them in disgrace. For she thought, ‘I will go after my lovers, who give me bread and water, wool and linen, oil and drink.’here: she has prostituted herself
- Hosea 3:3תִזְנִ֔יtizniverb · simple (qal), ongoing or future action · 2nd person feminine singularThen I said to her, “You must live with me for many days; you must not be promiscuous or belong to another, and I will do the same for you.”here: you must prostitute yourself
- Hosea 4:10הִזְנ֖וּhiznuverb · causative (hiphil), completed action · 3rd person common pluralThey will eat but not be satisfied; they will be promiscuous but not multiply. For they have stopped obeying the LORD.here: they will prostitute themselves
- Hosea 4:12וַיִּזְנ֖וּvaiyiznuHc/Vqw3mpMy people consult their wooden idols, and their divining rods inform them. For a spirit of prostitution leads them astray and they have played the harlot against their God.here: and they have prostituted themselves
- Hosea 4:13תִּזְנֶ֙ינָה֙tizneinahverb · simple (qal), ongoing or future action · 3rd person feminine pluralThey sacrifice on the mountaintops and burn offerings on the hills, under oak, poplar, and terebinth, because their shade is pleasant. And so your daughters turn to prostitution and your daughters-in-law to adultery.here: they prostitute themselves
- Hosea 4:14תִזְנֶ֗ינָהtizneinahverb · simple (qal), ongoing or future action · 3rd person feminine pluralI will not punish your daughters when they prostitute themselves, nor your daughters-in-law when they commit adultery. For the men themselves go off with prostitutes and offer sacrifices with shrine prostitutes. So a people without understanding will come to ruin.here: they prostitute themselves
- Hosea 4:14הַזֹּנ֣וֹתhazonotthe definite article (“the”) + verb · simple (qal), participle (“the one who…”) · feminine pluralI will not punish your daughters when they prostitute themselves, nor your daughters-in-law when they commit adultery. For the men themselves go off with prostitutes and offer sacrifices with shrine prostitutes. So a people without understanding will come to ruin.here: the prostitutes
- Hosea 4:15זֹנֶ֤הzonehverb · simple (qal), participle (“the one who…”) · masculine singularThough you prostitute yourself, O Israel, may Judah avoid such guilt! Do not journey to Gilgal, do not go up to Beth-aven, and do not swear on oath, ‘As surely as the LORD lives!’here: [are] prostituting yourself
- Hosea 4:18הַזְנֵ֣הhaznehverb · causative (hiphil), infinitive absoluteWhen their liquor is gone, they turn to prostitution; their rulers dearly love disgrace.here: certainly to prostitute themselves
- Hosea 4:18הִזְנ֔וּhiznuverb · causative (hiphil), completed action · 3rd person common pluralWhen their liquor is gone, they turn to prostitution; their rulers dearly love disgrace.here: they have prostituted themselves
- Hosea 5:3הִזְנֵ֣יתָhizneitaverb · causative (hiphil), completed action · 2nd person masculine singularI know all about Ephraim, and Israel is not hidden from Me. For now, O Ephraim, you have turned to prostitution; Israel is defiled.here: you have prostituted yourself
- Hosea 9:1זָנִ֖יתָzanitaverb · simple (qal), completed action · 2nd person masculine singularDo not rejoice, O Israel, with exultation like the nations, for you have played the harlot against your God; you have made love for hire on every threshing floor.here: you have prostituted yourself
Micah2 occurrences
- Micah 1:7זוֹנָה֙zonahverb · simple (qal), participle (“the one who…”) · feminine singularAll her carved images will be smashed to pieces; all her wages will be burned in the fire, and I will destroy all her idols. Since she collected the wages of a prostitute, they will be used again on a prostitute.here: a prostitute
- Micah 1:7זוֹנָ֖הzonahverb · simple (qal), participle (“the one who…”) · feminine singularAll her carved images will be smashed to pieces; all her wages will be burned in the fire, and I will destroy all her idols. Since she collected the wages of a prostitute, they will be used again on a prostitute.here: a prostitute