Hebrew noun (masculine) · H2183
זָנוּן
zanunzaw-noon'
fornication
12 uses in the Hebrew text, one for each word STEP Bible has tagged with this key
Concordance spelling: zânûwn
Word page · Part of the concordance, one page for every word of the Hebrew and Greek text. Strong's H2183is this word's number in James Strong's 1890 index of the King James Bible.
- 5 of 39Old Testament books
- 10spellings
The definition in full
Strong's key (1890) · H2183
adultery; figuratively, idolatry
The King James renders it: whoredom.
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
zanun is rendered "fornication". It stands 12 times in the Hebrew text, across five books.
- Six of the uses stand in Hosea, more than in any other book.
- Its first use in canonical order opens the ledger below.Genesis 38:24About 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!”
- The Greek text spells it ten different ways.
The first use
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 38:24לִזְנוּנִ֑ים
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
- prostitutions5
- prostitutions of2
- by prostitutions her1
- more than prostitutions of1
- prostitutions her1
- prostitutions your1
- to prostitutions1
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.
All 12, in canonical order
Every use, in order
Every use, grouped by book, with its verse.
10 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
- זְנוּנִים֙3
- בִּזְנוּנֶ֔יהָ1
- זְנוּנֵ֞י1
- זְנוּנֵ֣י1
- זְנוּנֶ֙יהָ֙1
- זְנוּנַ֔יִךְ1
- זְנוּנִ֔ים1
- זְנוּנִ֖ים1
- לִזְנוּנִ֑ים1
- מִזְּנוּנֵ֖י1
The grammar of each form
- noun · masculine plural5HNcmpa
- noun · masculine plural · in construct (“…of”)2HNcmpc
- noun · masculine plural · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 2nd person feminine singular1HNcmpc/Sp2fs
- noun · masculine plural · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 3rd person feminine singular1HNcmpc/Sp3fs
- preposition + noun · masculine plural1HR/Ncmpa
- preposition + noun · masculine plural · in construct (“…of”)1HR/Ncmpc
- preposition + noun · masculine plural · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 3rd person feminine singular1HR/Ncmpc/Sp3fs
Genesis
one use
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!”
- לִזְנוּנִ֑יםliznunimpreposition + noun · masculine pluraltagged: to prostitutions
2 Kings
one use
When Joram saw Jehu, he asked, “Have you come in peace, Jehu?” “How can there be peace,” he replied, “as long as the idolatry and witchcraft of your mother Jezebel abound?”
- זְנוּנֵ֞יzenuneinoun · masculine plural · in construct (“…of”)tagged: prostitutions of
Ezekiel
two uses
Her sister Oholibah saw this, yet in her lust and prostitution she was more depraved than her sister.
- מִזְּנוּנֵ֖יmizenuneipreposition + noun · masculine plural · in construct (“…of”)tagged: more than prostitutions of
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
- זְנוּנַ֔יִךְzenunayikhnoun · masculine plural · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 2nd person feminine singulartagged: prostitutions your
Hosea
six uses
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.”
- זְנוּנִים֙zenunimnoun · masculine pluraltagged: prostitutions
- זְנוּנִ֔יםzenunimnoun · masculine pluraltagged: prostitutions
Rebuke 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.
- זְנוּנֶ֙יהָ֙zenuneihanoun · masculine plural · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 3rd person feminine singulartagged: prostitutions her
I will have no compassion on her children, because they are the children of adultery.
- זְנוּנִ֖יםzenunimnoun · masculine pluraltagged: prostitutions
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.
- זְנוּנִים֙zenunimnoun · masculine pluraltagged: prostitutions
Their 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.
- זְנוּנִים֙zenunimnoun · masculine pluraltagged: prostitutions
Nahum
two uses
because of the many harlotries of the harlot, the seductive mistress of sorcery, who betrays nations by her prostitution and clans by her witchcraft.
- זְנוּנֵ֣יzenuneinoun · masculine plural · in construct (“…of”)tagged: prostitutions of
- בִּזְנוּנֶ֔יהָbiznuneihapreposition + noun · masculine plural · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 3rd person feminine singulartagged: by prostitutions her
The letters
Gematria 113· 763 mispar gadol
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.