זָנָה

But they replied, “Should he have treated our sister like a prostitute?”

Genesis 34:31

• הַכְזוֹנָ֕הhakhzonahquestion particle + preposition + verb · simple (qal), participle · feminine singulartagged: ¿ like a prostitute

When Judah saw her, he thought she was a prostitute because she had covered her face.

Genesis 38:15

• לְזוֹנָ֑הlezonahpreposition + verb · simple (qal), participle · feminine singulartagged: to a prostitute

About 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!”

Genesis 38:24

• זָֽנְתָה֙zanetahverb · simple (qal), qatal (perfect) · 3rd person feminine singulartagged: she has acted as a prostitute

Do 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.

Exodus 34:15

• וְזָנ֣וּ׀vezanuHc/Vqq3cptagged: and they will prostitute themselves

And 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.

Exodus 34:16

• וְזָנ֣וּvezanuHc/Vqq3cptagged: and they will prostitute themselves
• וְהִזְנוּ֙vehiznuHc/Vhq3cptagged: and they will make prostitute

They 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.’

Leviticus 17:7

• זֹנִ֖יםzonimverb · simple (qal), participle · masculine pluraltagged: prostituting themselves

You must not defile your daughter by making her a prostitute, or the land will be prostituted and filled with depravity.

Leviticus 19:29

• לְהַזְנוֹתָ֑הּlehaznotahpreposition + verb · causative (hiphil), infinitive (“to…”) + pronoun suffix · 3rd person feminine singulartagged: by making prostitute her
• תִזְנֶ֣הtiznehverb · simple (qal), yiqtol (imperfect) · 3rd person feminine singulartagged: it will prostitute itself

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.

Leviticus 20:5

• הַזֹּנִ֣יםhazonimthe definite article (“the”) + verb · simple (qal), participle · masculine pluraltagged: those act as prostitutes
• לִזְנ֛וֹתliznotpreposition + verb · simple (qal), infinitive (“to…”)tagged: by acting as prostitutes

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.

Leviticus 20:6

• לִזְנ֖וֹתliznotpreposition + verb · simple (qal), infinitive (“to…”)tagged: to act as a prostitute

A priest must not marry a woman defiled by prostitution or divorced by her husband, for the priest is holy to his God.

Leviticus 21:7

• זֹנָ֤הzonahverb · simple (qal), participle · feminine singulartagged: a prostitute

If a priest’s daughter defiles herself by prostituting herself, she profanes her father; she must be burned in the fire.

Leviticus 21:9

• לִזְנ֑וֹתliznotpreposition + verb · simple (qal), infinitive (“to…”)tagged: by acting as a prostitute

He is not to marry a widow, a divorced woman, or one defiled by prostitution. He is to marry a virgin from his own people,

Leviticus 21:14

• זֹנָ֔הzonahverb · simple (qal), participle · feminine singulartagged: a prostitute

These 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.

Numbers 15:39

• זֹנִ֖יםzonimverb · simple (qal), participle · masculine pluraltagged: acting as prostitutes

While Israel was staying in Shittim, the men began to indulge in sexual immorality with the daughters of Moab,

Numbers 25:1

• לִזְנ֖וֹתliznotpreposition + verb · simple (qal), infinitive (“to…”)tagged: to commit fornication

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.

Deuteronomy 22:21

• לִזְנ֖וֹתliznotpreposition + verb · simple (qal), infinitive (“to…”)tagged: by acting as a prostitute

You 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.

Deuteronomy 23:18

• זוֹנָ֜הzonahverb · simple (qal), participle · feminine singulartagged: a prostitute

And 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.

Deuteronomy 31:16

• וְזָנָ֣ה׀vezanahHc/Vqq3mstagged: and it will act as a prostitute

Then 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.

Joshua 2:1

• זוֹנָ֛הzonahverb · simple (qal), participle · feminine singulartagged: a prostitute

Now 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.

Joshua 6:17

• הַזּוֹנָ֜הhazonahthe definite article (“the”) + verb · simple (qal), participle · feminine singulartagged: the prostitute

Meanwhile, 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.”

Joshua 6:22

• הַזּוֹנָ֑הhazonahthe definite article (“the”) + verb · simple (qal), participle · feminine singulartagged: the prostitute

And 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.

Joshua 6:25

• הַ֠זּוֹנָהhazonahthe definite article (“the”) + verb · simple (qal), participle · feminine singulartagged: the prostitute

Israel, 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.

Judges 2:17

• זָנ֗וּzanuverb · simple (qal), qatal (perfect) · 3rd person common pluraltagged: they acted as prostitutes

From 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.

Judges 8:27

• וַיִּזְנ֧וּvaiyiznuHc/Vqw3mptagged: and they acted as prostitutes

And as soon as Gideon was dead, the Israelites turned and prostituted themselves with the Baals, and they set up Baal-berith as their god.

Judges 8:33

• וַיִּזְנ֖וּvaiyiznuHc/Vqw3mptagged: and they acted as prostitutes

Now Jephthah the Gileadite was a mighty man of valor; he was the son of a prostitute, and Gilead was his father.

Judges 11:1

• זוֹנָ֑הzonahverb · simple (qal), participle · feminine singulartagged: a prostitute

One day Samson went to Gaza, where he saw a prostitute and went in to spend the night with her.

Judges 16:1

• זוֹנָ֔הzonahverb · simple (qal), participle · feminine singulartagged: a prostitute

But 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,

Judges 19:2

• וַתִּזְנֶ֤הvatiznehHc/Vqw3fstagged: and she was angry

At that time two prostitutes came to the king and stood before him.

1 Kings 3:16

• זֹנ֖וֹתzonotverb · simple (qal), participle · feminine pluraltagged: prostitutes

And 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.

1 Kings 22:38

• וְהַזֹּנ֖וֹתvehazonotconjunction (“and”) + the definite article (“the”) + verb · simple (qal), participle · feminine pluraltagged: and the prostitutes

They were mighty men of valor, famous men, and heads of their families. But they were unfaithful to the God of their fathers, and they prostituted themselves with the gods of the peoples of the land, whom God had destroyed before them.

1 Chronicles 5:25

• וַיִּזְנ֗וּvaiyiznuHc/Vqw3mptagged: and they played prostitute

Jehoram 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.

2 Chronicles 21:11

• וַיֶּ֙זֶן֙vaiyezenHc/Vhw3mstagged: and he made prostitute

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.

2 Chronicles 21:13

• וַתַּזְנֶ֤הvataznehHc/Vhw2mstagged: and you have made prostitute
• כְּהַזְנ֖וֹתkehaznotpreposition + verb · causative (hiphil), infinitive (“to…”)tagged: as made prostitute

Those far from You will surely perish; You destroy all who are unfaithful to You.

Psalms 73:27

• זוֹנֶ֥הzonehverb · simple (qal), participle · masculine singulartagged: acts as a prostitute

They defiled themselves by their actions and prostituted themselves by their deeds.

Psalms 106:39

• וַ֝יִּזְנוּ֗vaiyiznuHc/Vqw3mptagged: and they played prostitute

For the levy of the prostitute is poverty, and the adulteress preys upon your very life.

Proverbs 6:26

• זוֹנָ֗הzonahverb · simple (qal), participle · feminine singulartagged: a prostitute

Then a woman came out to meet him, with the attire of a harlot and cunning of heart.

Proverbs 7:10

• ז֝וֹנָ֗הzonahverb · simple (qal), participle · feminine singulartagged: a prostitute

For a prostitute is a deep pit, and an adulteress is a narrow well.

Proverbs 23:27

• זוֹנָ֑הzonahverb · simple (qal), participle · feminine singulartagged: a prostitute

A man who loves wisdom brings joy to his father, but a companion of prostitutes squanders his wealth.

Proverbs 29:3

• ז֝וֹנ֗וֹתzonotverb · simple (qal), participle · feminine pluraltagged: prostitutes

See how the faithful city has become a harlot! She once was full of justice; righteousness resided within her, but now only murderers!

Isaiah 1:21

• לְזוֹנָ֔הlezonahpreposition + verb · simple (qal), participle · feminine singulartagged: into a prostitute

At 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:

Isaiah 23:15

• הַזּוֹנָֽה׃hazonahthe definite article (“the”) + verb · simple (qal), participle · feminine singulartagged: the prostitute

“Take up your harp, stroll through the city, O forgotten harlot. Make sweet melody, sing many a song, so you will be remembered.”

Isaiah 23:16

• זוֹנָ֣הzonahverb · simple (qal), participle · feminine singulartagged: O prostitute

And 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.

Isaiah 23:17

• וְזָֽנְתָ֛הvezanetahHc/Vqq3fstagged: and it will act prostitute

“But come here, you sons of a sorceress, you offspring of adulterers and prostitutes!

Isaiah 57:3

• וַתִּזְנֶֽה׃vatiznehHc/Vqw3fstagged: and she has played prostitute

“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.

Jeremiah 2:20

• זֹנָֽה׃zonahverb · simple (qal), participle · feminine singulartagged: a prostitute

“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.

Jeremiah 3:1

• זָנִית֙zanitverb · simple (qal), qatal (perfect) · 2nd person feminine singulartagged: you have acted as a prostitute

Therefore 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.

Jeremiah 3:3

• זוֹנָה֙zonahverb · simple (qal), participle · feminine singulartagged: a prostitute

Now 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.

Jeremiah 3:6

• וַתִּזְנִי־vatizni-Hc/Vqw2fstagged: and she has acted as a prostitute

She 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.

Jeremiah 3:8

• וַתִּ֥זֶןvatizenHc/Vqw3fstagged: and she acted as a prostitute

“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.

Jeremiah 5:7

• זוֹנָ֖הzonahverb · simple (qal), participle · feminine singulartagged: a prostitute

Then 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.

Ezekiel 6:9

• הַזּוֹנֶ֗הhazonehthe definite article (“the”) + verb · simple (qal), participle · masculine singulartagged: plays the prostitute
• הַזֹּנ֕וֹתhazonotthe definite article (“the”) + verb · simple (qal), participle · feminine pluraltagged: play the prostitute

But 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.

Ezekiel 16:15

• וַתִּזְנִ֖יvatizniHc/Vqw2fstagged: and you acted as a prostitute

You 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!

Ezekiel 16:16

• וַתִּזְנִ֖יvatizniHc/Vqw2fstagged: and you acted as a prostitute

You also took the fine jewelry of gold and silver I had given you, and you made male idols with which to prostitute yourself.

Ezekiel 16:17

• וַתִּזְנִי־vatizni-Hc/Vqw2fstagged: and you acted as a prostitute

You prostituted yourself with your lustful neighbors, the Egyptians, and increased your promiscuity to provoke Me to anger.

Ezekiel 16:26

• וַתִּזְנִ֧יvatizniHc/Vqw2fstagged: and you acted as a prostitute

Then you prostituted yourself with the Assyrians, because you were not yet satisfied. Even after that, you were still not satisfied.

Ezekiel 16:28

• וַתִּזְנִי֙vatizniHc/Vqw2fstagged: and you acted as a prostitute
• וַתִּזְנִ֕יםvatiznimHc/Vqw2fs/Sp3mptagged: and you acted as a prostitute with them

How weak-willed is your heart, declares the Lord GOD, while you do all these things, the acts of a shameless prostitute!

Ezekiel 16:30

• זוֹנָ֖הzonahverb · simple (qal), participle · feminine singulartagged: a prostitute

But 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.

Ezekiel 16:31

• כַּזּוֹנָ֖הkazonahpreposition with the article + verb · simple (qal), participle · feminine singulartagged: like the prostitute

Men 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.

Ezekiel 16:33

• זֹנ֖וֹתzonotverb · simple (qal), participle · feminine pluraltagged: prostitutes

So 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!

Ezekiel 16:34

• זוּנָּ֑הzunahverb · intensive passive (pual), qatal (perfect) · 3rd person masculine singulartagged: it was approached for prostitution

Therefore, O prostitute, hear the word of the LORD!

Ezekiel 16:35

• זוֹנָ֔הzonahverb · simple (qal), participle · feminine singulartagged: O prostitute

Then 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.

Ezekiel 16:41

• מִזּוֹנָ֔הmizonahpreposition + verb · simple (qal), participle · feminine singulartagged: from a prostitute

Therefore 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?

Ezekiel 20:30

• זֹנִֽים׃zonimverb · simple (qal), participle · masculine pluraltagged: acting as prostitutes

and they played in Egypt, prostituting themselves from their youth. Their breasts were fondled there, and their virgin bosoms caressed.

Ezekiel 23:3

• וַתִּזְנֶ֣ינָהvatizneinahHc/Vqw3fptagged: and they acted as prostitutes
• זָנ֑וּzanuverb · simple (qal), qatal (perfect) · 3rd person common pluraltagged: they acted as prostitutes

Oholah prostituted herself while she was still Mine. She lusted after her lovers, the Assyrians—warriors

Ezekiel 23:5

• וַתִּ֥זֶןvatizenHc/Vqw3fstagged: and she acted as a prostitute

Yet she multiplied her promiscuity, remembering the days of her youth, when she had prostituted herself in the land of Egypt

Ezekiel 23:19

• זָנְתָ֖הzanetahverb · simple (qal), qatal (perfect) · 3rd person feminine singulartagged: she acted as a prostitute

have brought these things upon you, because you have prostituted yourself with the nations and defiled yourself with their idols.

Ezekiel 23:30

• בִּזְנוֹתֵךְ֙biznotekhpreposition + verb · simple (qal), infinitive (“to…”) + pronoun suffix · 2nd person feminine singulartagged: because acted as a prostitute you

Then I said of her who had grown old in adulteries: ‘Now let them use her as a prostitute, for that is all she is!’

Ezekiel 23:43

• יִזְנ֥וּyiznuhverb · simple (qal), yiqtol (imperfect) · 3rd person masculine pluraltagged: they will act as a prostitutes

And they slept with her as with a prostitute; they slept with Oholah and Oholibah, those lewd women.

Ezekiel 23:44

• זוֹנָ֑הzonahverb · simple (qal), participle · feminine singulartagged: a prostitute

When 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.”

Hosea 1:2

• זָנֹ֤הzanohverb · simple (qal), infinitive absolutetagged: continually prostitute itself
• תִזְנֶה֙tiznehverb · simple (qal), yiqtol (imperfect) · 3rd person feminine singulartagged: it prostitutes itself

For 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.’

Hosea 2:5

• זָֽנְתָה֙zanetahverb · simple (qal), qatal (perfect) · 3rd person feminine singulartagged: she has prostituted herself

Then 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.”

Hosea 3:3

• תִזְנִ֔יtizniverb · simple (qal), yiqtol (imperfect) · 2nd person feminine singulartagged: you must prostitute yourself

They will eat but not be satisfied; they will be promiscuous but not multiply. For they have stopped obeying the LORD.

Hosea 4:10

• הִזְנ֖וּhiznuverb · causative (hiphil), qatal (perfect) · 3rd person common pluraltagged: they will prostitute themselves

My 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.

Hosea 4:12

• וַיִּזְנ֖וּvaiyiznuHc/Vqw3mptagged: and they have prostituted themselves

They 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.

Hosea 4:13

• תִּזְנֶ֙ינָה֙tizneinahverb · simple (qal), yiqtol (imperfect) · 3rd person feminine pluraltagged: they prostitute themselves

I 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.

Hosea 4:14

• תִזְנֶ֗ינָהtizneinahverb · simple (qal), yiqtol (imperfect) · 3rd person feminine pluraltagged: they prostitute themselves
• הַזֹּנ֣וֹתhazonotthe definite article (“the”) + verb · simple (qal), participle · feminine pluraltagged: the prostitutes

Though 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!’

Hosea 4:15

• זֹנֶ֤הzonehverb · simple (qal), participle · masculine singulartagged: prostituting yourself

When their liquor is gone, they turn to prostitution; their rulers dearly love disgrace.

Hosea 4:18

• הַזְנֵ֣הhaznehverb · causative (hiphil), infinitive absolutetagged: certainly to prostitute themselves
• הִזְנ֔וּhiznuverb · causative (hiphil), qatal (perfect) · 3rd person common pluraltagged: they have prostituted themselves

I know all about Ephraim, and Israel is not hidden from Me. For now, O Ephraim, you have turned to prostitution; Israel is defiled.

Hosea 5:3

• הִזְנֵ֣יתָhizneitaverb · causative (hiphil), qatal (perfect) · 2nd person masculine singulartagged: you have prostituted yourself

Do 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.

Hosea 9:1

• זָנִ֖יתָzanitaverb · simple (qal), qatal (perfect) · 2nd person masculine singulartagged: you have prostituted yourself

They cast lots for My people; they bartered a boy for a prostitute and sold a girl for wine to drink.

Joel 3:3

• בַּזּוֹנָ֔הbazonahpreposition with the article + verb · simple (qal), participle · feminine singulartagged: for the prostitute

Therefore this is what the LORD says: ‘Your wife will become a prostitute in the city, and your sons and daughters will fall by the sword. Your land will be divided by a measuring line, and you yourself will die on pagan soil. And Israel will surely go into exile, away from their homeland.’”

Amos 7:17

• תִּזְנֶה֙tiznehverb · simple (qal), yiqtol (imperfect) · 3rd person feminine singulartagged: she will be a prostitute

All 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.

Micah 1:7

• זוֹנָה֙zonahverb · simple (qal), participle · feminine singulartagged: a prostitute
• זוֹנָ֖הzonahverb · simple (qal), participle · feminine singulartagged: a prostitute

because of the many harlotries of the harlot, the seductive mistress of sorcery, who betrays nations by her prostitution and clans by her witchcraft.

Nahum 3:4

• זוֹנָ֔הzonahverb · simple (qal), participle · feminine singulartagged: a prostitute