Word Study · Strong's H2183 · Hebrew
זָנוּן
zanun
zaw-noon'
Strong's 1890 spelling: zânûwn
“adultery”
Strong's Dictionary · 1890 · public domain
adultery; figuratively, idolatry
Rendered in the KJV as
whoredom.
- 12occurrencesin the Old Testament
- 5 of 39Old Testament bookswhere the word stands
- 10inflected formsdistinct spellings
Across 12 occurrences
The word itself
Inflected forms · 10
- זְנוּנִים֙3
- בִּזְנוּנֶ֔יהָ1
- זְנוּנֵ֞י1
- זְנוּנֵ֣י1
- זְנוּנֶ֙יהָ֙1
- זְנוּנַ֔יִךְ1
- זְנוּנִ֔ים1
- זְנוּנִ֖ים1
- לִזְנוּנִ֑ים1
- מִזְּנוּנֵ֖י1
How it is rendered · 7
- prostitutions5
- [the] prostitutions of2
- by prostitutions her1
- more than [the] prostitutions of1
- prostitutions her1
- prostitutions your1
- to prostitutions1
The sense the word carries at each spot — how the translators read it there, not a fixed translation.
How it parses · 7
- noun · masculine plural5
- noun · masculine plural · in construct (“…of”)2
- noun · masculine plural · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 2nd person feminine singular1
- noun · masculine plural · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 3rd person feminine singular1
- preposition + noun · masculine plural1
- preposition + noun · masculine plural · in construct (“…of”)1
- preposition + noun · masculine plural · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 3rd person feminine singular1
Show the grammar codes as tagged
- HNcmpa · 5
- HNcmpc · 2
- HNcmpc/Sp2fs · 1
- HNcmpc/Sp3fs · 1
- HR/Ncmpa · 1
- HR/Ncmpc · 1
- HR/Ncmpc/Sp3fs · 1
All 12, in canonical order
The ledger of occurrences
Where this word lives
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Ezekiel2 occurrences
- Ezekiel 23:11מִזְּנוּנֵ֖יmizenuneipreposition + noun · masculine plural · in construct (“…of”)Her sister Oholibah saw this, yet in her lust and prostitution she was more depraved than her sister.here: more than [the] prostitutions of
- Ezekiel 23:29זְנוּנַ֔יִךְzenunayikhnoun · masculine plural · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 2nd person feminine singularThey will treat you with hatred, take all for which you have worked, and leave you naked and bare, so that the shame of your prostitution will be exposed. Your indecency and promiscuityhere: prostitutions your
Hosea6 occurrences
- Hosea 1:2זְנוּנִים֙zenunimnoun · masculine pluralWhen 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: prostitutions
- Hosea 1:2זְנוּנִ֔יםzenunimnoun · masculine pluralWhen 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: prostitutions
- Hosea 2:2זְנוּנֶ֙יהָ֙zenuneihanoun · masculine plural · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 3rd person feminine singularRebuke your mother, rebuke her, for she is not My wife, and I am not her husband. Let her remove the adultery from her face and the unfaithfulness from between her breasts.here: prostitutions her
- Hosea 2:4זְנוּנִ֖יםzenunimnoun · masculine pluralI will have no compassion on her children, because they are the children of adultery.here: prostitutions
- Hosea 4:12זְנוּנִים֙zenunimnoun · masculine pluralMy 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: prostitutions
- Hosea 5:4זְנוּנִים֙zenunimnoun · masculine pluralTheir deeds do not permit them to return to their God, for a spirit of prostitution is within them, and they do not know the LORD.here: prostitutions
Nahum2 occurrences
- Nahum 3:4זְנוּנֵ֣יzenuneinoun · masculine plural · in construct (“…of”)because of the many harlotries of the harlot, the seductive mistress of sorcery, who betrays nations by her prostitution and clans by her witchcraft.here: [the] prostitutions of
- Nahum 3:4בִּזְנוּנֶ֔יהָbiznuneihapreposition + noun · masculine plural · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 3rd person feminine singularbecause of the many harlotries of the harlot, the seductive mistress of sorcery, who betrays nations by her prostitution and clans by her witchcraft.here: by prostitutions her