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Hebrew noun (feminine) · H2154

זִמָּה

zimmahzim-maw'

wickedness

29 uses in the Hebrew text, one for each word STEP Bible has tagged with this key

Concordance spelling: zimmâh

Word page · Part of the concordance, one page for every word of the Hebrew and Greek text. Strong's H2154is this word's number in James Strong's 1890 index of the King James Bible.

  • 9 of 39
    Old Testament books
  • 18
    spellings

The definition in full

Strong's key (1890) · H2154

a plan, especially a bad one

The King James renders it: heinous crime, lewd(-ly, -ness), mischief, purpose, thought, wicked (device, mind, -ness).

James Strong, The Exhaustive Concordance of the Bible (1890), public domain. Strong indexed the King James text, and this site quotes his entry as that index.

Summary

zimmah is rendered "wickedness". It stands 29 times in the Hebrew text, across nine books.

  • Fourteen of the uses stand in Ezekiel, more than in any other book.
  • Its first use in canonical order opens the ledger below.Leviticus 18:17You must not have sexual relations with both a woman and her daughter. You are not to marry her son’s daughter or her daughter’s daughter and have sexual relations with her. They are close relatives; it is depraved.
  • The Greek text spells it eighteen different ways.

The first use

You must not have sexual relations with both a woman and her daughter. You are not to marry her son’s daughter or her daughter’s daughter and have sexual relations with her. They are close relatives; it is depraved.

Leviticus 18:17זִמָּ֥ה

The first use, in the order of the Old Testament's books.

Where the word stands

Fourteen of the word's twenty-nine uses are in Ezekiel.

The other 30 Old Testament books never use the word.

What the word means

Each meaning, and the words it is translated by

How the Greek text is glossed, word by word

  • wickedness9
  • licentiousness4
  • licentiousness your4
  • in wickedness2
  • the licentiousness2
  • a plan of1
  • and licentiousness your1
  • evil purposes1
  • licentiousness of1
  • like licentiousness your1
  • of wickedness1
  • plans my1

and 1 more, 29 uses in all

The words built on the same word-part

Each word below begins with the same letters this one begins with. A shared word-part shows a family. It does not settle what any one of them means, so each word carries its own uses on its own page. Scholars call that shared part the stem.

Other numbers on this spelling

Strong gave these words the same spelling and different numbers, so the site counts and defines them apart.

All 29, in canonical order

Every use, in order

Every use, grouped by book, with its verse.

18 spellings and their grammar

STEP Bible tags every word of the Hebrew and Greek text with its spelling and its grammar. Both lists below count the rows printed underneath, written out in English, with the code beside each one as it was tagged.

How it is spelled

  • זִמָּ֑ה5
  • זִמָּ֖ה4
  • זִמַּ֣ת3
  • זִמָּ֥ה2
  • זִמָּֽה׃2
  • בְזִמָּ֥ה1
  • בְזִמָּ֑ה1
  • הַזִּמָּ֔ה1
  • הַזִּמָּֽה׃1
  • וְזִמָּתֵ֖ךְ1
  • זִמָּ֣ה1
  • זִמּ֣וֹת1

and 6 more spellings in the ledger below.

The grammar of each form

  • noun · feminine singular14HNcfsa
  • noun · feminine singular · in construct (“…of”)3HNcfsc
  • noun · feminine singular · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 2nd person feminine singular3HNcfsc/Sp2fs
  • preposition + noun · feminine singular2HR/Ncfsa
  • the definite article (“the”) + noun · feminine singular2HTd/Ncfsa
  • conjunction (“and”) + noun · feminine singular · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 2nd person feminine singular1HC/Ncfsc/Sp2fs
  • noun · feminine plural1HNcfpa
  • noun · feminine plural · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 1st person masculine or feminine singular1HNcfpc/Sp1bs
  • noun · feminine singular · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 2nd person feminine plural1HNcfsc/Sp2fp
  • preposition + noun · feminine singular · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 2nd person feminine plural1HR/Ncfsc/Sp2fp

Leviticus

four uses
  • You must not have sexual relations with both a woman and her daughter. You are not to marry her son’s daughter or her daughter’s daughter and have sexual relations with her. They are close relatives; it is depraved.

    Leviticus 18:17

    • זִמָּ֥הzimahnoun · feminine singulartagged: wickedness
  • You must not defile your daughter by making her a prostitute, or the land will be prostituted and filled with depravity.

    Leviticus 19:29

    • זִמָּֽה׃zimahnoun · feminine singulartagged: wickedness
  • If a man marries both a woman and her mother, it is depraved. Both he and they must be burned in the fire, so that there will be no depravity among you.

    Leviticus 20:14

    • זִמָּ֣הzimahnoun · feminine singulartagged: wickedness
    • זִמָּ֖הzimahnoun · feminine singulartagged: wickedness

Judges

one use
  • Then I took my concubine, cut her into pieces, and sent her throughout the land of Israel’s inheritance, because they had committed a lewd and disgraceful act in Israel.

    Judges 20:6

    • זִמָּ֥הzimahnoun · feminine singulartagged: wickedness

Job

two uses
  • My days have passed; my plans are broken off—even the desires of my heart.

    Job 17:11

    • זִמֹּתַ֣יzimotainoun · feminine plural · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 1st person masculine or feminine singulartagged: plans my
  • For that would be a heinous crime, an iniquity to be judged.

    Job 31:11

    • זִמָּ֑הzimahnoun · feminine singulartagged: wickedness

Psalms

two uses
  • in whose hands are wicked schemes, whose right hands are full of bribes.

    Psalms 26:10

    • זִמָּ֑הzimahnoun · feminine singulartagged: wickedness
  • Those who follow after wickedness draw near; they are far from Your law.

    Psalms 119:150

    • זִמָּ֑הzimahnoun · feminine singulartagged: of wickedness

Proverbs

three uses
  • The fool delights in shameful conduct, but a man of understanding has wisdom.

    Proverbs 10:23

    • זִמָּ֑הzimahnoun · feminine singulartagged: wickedness
  • The sacrifice of the wicked is detestable—how much more so when brought with ill intent!

    Proverbs 21:27

    • בְזִמָּ֥הvezimahpreposition + noun · feminine singulartagged: in wickedness
  • A foolish scheme is sin, and a mocker is detestable to men.

    Proverbs 24:9

    • זִמַּ֣תzimatnoun · feminine singular · in construct (“…of”)tagged: a plan of

Isaiah

one use
  • The weapons of the scoundrel are destructive; he hatches plots to destroy the poor with lies, even when the plea of the needy is just.

    Isaiah 32:7

    • זִמּ֣וֹתzimotnoun · feminine pluraltagged: evil purposes

Jeremiah

one use
  • Your adulteries and lustful neighings, your shameless prostitution on the hills and in the fields—I have seen your detestable acts. Woe to you, O Jerusalem! How long will you remain unclean?”

    Jeremiah 13:27

    • זִמַּ֣תzimatnoun · feminine singular · in construct (“…of”)tagged: wickedness of

Ezekiel

fourteen uses
  • Therefore I stretched out My hand against you and reduced your portion. I gave you over to the desire of those who hate you, the daughters of the Philistines, who were ashamed of your lewd conduct.

    Ezekiel 16:27

    • זִמָּֽה׃zimahnoun · feminine singulartagged: licentiousness
  • Because you did not remember the days of your youth, but enraged Me with all these things, I will surely bring your deeds down upon your own head, declares the Lord GOD. Have you not committed this lewdness on top of all your other abominations?

    Ezekiel 16:43

    • הַזִּמָּ֔הhazimahthe definite article (“the”) + noun · feminine singulartagged: the licentiousness
  • You will bear the consequences of your lewdness and your abominations, declares the LORD.

    Ezekiel 16:58

    • זִמָּתֵ֥ךְzimatekhnoun · feminine singular · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 2nd person feminine singulartagged: licentiousness your
  • Among you are slanderous men bent on bloodshed; within you are those who eat on the mountain shrines and commit acts of indecency.

    Ezekiel 22:9

    • זִמָּ֖הzimahnoun · feminine singulartagged: licentiousness
  • One man commits an abomination with his neighbor’s wife; another wickedly defiles his daughter-in-law; and yet another violates his sister, his own father’s daughter.

    Ezekiel 22:11

    • בְזִמָּ֑הvezimahpreposition + noun · feminine singulartagged: in wickedness
  • So you revisited the indecency of your youth, when the Egyptians caressed your bosom and pressed your young breasts.

    Ezekiel 23:21

    • זִמַּ֣תzimatnoun · feminine singular · in construct (“…of”)tagged: licentiousness of
  • So I will put an end to your indecency and prostitution, which began in the land of Egypt, and you will not lift your eyes to them or remember Egypt anymore.’

    Ezekiel 23:27

    • זִמָּתֵךְ֙zimatekhnoun · feminine singular · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 2nd person feminine singulartagged: licentiousness your
  • They 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 promiscuity

    Ezekiel 23:29

    • וְזִמָּתֵ֖ךְvezimatekhconjunction (“and”) + noun · feminine singular · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 2nd person feminine singulartagged: and licentiousness your
  • Therefore this is what the Lord GOD says: ‘Because you have forgotten Me and have cast Me behind your back, you must bear the consequences of your indecency and prostitution.’”

    Ezekiel 23:35

    • זִמָּתֵ֖ךְzimatekhnoun · feminine singular · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 2nd person feminine singulartagged: licentiousness your
  • And they slept with her as with a prostitute; they slept with Oholah and Oholibah, those lewd women.

    Ezekiel 23:44

    • הַזִּמָּֽה׃hazimahthe definite article (“the”) + noun · feminine singulartagged: the licentiousness
  • So I will put an end to indecency in the land, and all the women will be admonished not to imitate your behavior.

    Ezekiel 23:48

    • זִמָּ֖הzimahnoun · feminine singulartagged: licentiousness
    • כְּזִמַּתְכֶֽנָה׃kezimatkhenahpreposition + noun · feminine singular · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 2nd person feminine pluraltagged: like licentiousness your
  • They will repay you for your indecency, and you will bear the consequences of your sins of idolatry. Then you will know that I am the Lord GOD.’”

    Ezekiel 23:49

    • זִמַּתְכֶ֙נָה֙zimatkhenahnoun · feminine singular · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 2nd person feminine pluraltagged: licentiousness your
  • Because of the indecency of your uncleanness I tried to cleanse you, but you would not be purified from your filthiness. You will not be pure again until My wrath against you has subsided.

    Ezekiel 24:13

    • זִמָּ֑הzimahnoun · feminine singulartagged: licentiousness

Hosea

one use
  • Like raiders who lie in ambush, so does a band of priests; they murder on the way to Shechem; surely they have committed atrocities.

    Hosea 6:9

    • זִמָּ֖הzimahnoun · feminine singulartagged: wickedness

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Every count on this page comes from STEP Bible's tagged Hebrew and Greek text, the same text the ledger prints. A use is counted once each time the tagging marks a word with this key.

Spellings are counted as the Greek text spells them, with the sentence's own punctuation taken off the word first, so a form that ends a clause is not counted as a second spelling.

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Dictionary key: Strong's Exhaustive Concordance of the Bible (1890, public domain). English verse text: Berean Standard Bible (public domain, 2023).

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