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 39Old Testament books
- 18spellings
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
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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- זִמָּ֥הzimahnoun · feminine singulartagged: wickedness
Job
two uses
My days have passed; my plans are broken off—even the desires of my heart.
- 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.
- זִמָּ֑הzimahnoun · feminine singulartagged: wickedness
Psalms
two uses
in whose hands are wicked schemes, whose right hands are full of bribes.
- זִמָּ֑הzimahnoun · feminine singulartagged: wickedness
Those who follow after wickedness draw near; they are far from Your law.
- זִמָּ֑הzimahnoun · feminine singulartagged: of wickedness
Proverbs
three uses
The fool delights in shameful conduct, but a man of understanding has wisdom.
- זִמָּ֑הzimahnoun · feminine singulartagged: wickedness
The sacrifice of the wicked is detestable—how much more so when brought with ill intent!
- בְזִמָּ֥הvezimahpreposition + noun · feminine singulartagged: in wickedness
A foolish scheme is sin, and a mocker is detestable to men.
- 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.
- 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?”
- 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.
- 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?
- הַזִּמָּ֔הhazimahthe definite article (“the”) + noun · feminine singulartagged: the licentiousness
You will bear the consequences of your lewdness and your abominations, declares the LORD.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.’
- 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
- 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.’”
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.’”
- 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.
- 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.
- זִמָּ֖הzimahnoun · feminine singulartagged: wickedness
Where it leads
How the numbers are counted
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.
