Hebrew noun (feminine) · H2184
זְנוּת
zenuthzen-ooth'
fornication
9 uses in the Hebrew text, one for each word STEP Bible has tagged with this key
Concordance spelling: zᵉnûwth
Word page · Part of the concordance, one page for every word of the Hebrew and Greek text. Strong's H2184is this word's number in James Strong's 1890 index of the King James Bible.
- 4 of 39Old Testament books
- 9spellings
The definition in full
Strong's key (1890) · H2184
adultery, i.e. (figuratively) infidelity, 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
zenuth is rendered "fornication". It stands 9 times in the Hebrew text, across four books.
- Three of the uses stand in Jeremiah, more than in any other book.
- Its first use in canonical order opens the ledger below.Numbers 14:33Your children will be shepherds in the wilderness for forty years, and they will suffer for your unfaithfulness until the last of your bodies lies in the wilderness.
- The Greek text spells it nine different ways.
The first use
Your children will be shepherds in the wilderness for forty years, and they will suffer for your unfaithfulness until the last of your bodies lies in the wilderness.
Numbers 14:33זְנוּתֵיכֶ֑ם
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
- prostitution your3
- prostitution2
- by prostitution their1
- by prostitution your1
- prostitution her1
- prostitution their1
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 9, in canonical order
Every use, in order
Every use, grouped by book, with its verse.
9 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
- בִּזְנוּתַ֖יִךְ1
- בִּזְנוּתָ֔ם1
- זְנ֛וּת1
- זְנ֣וּת1
- זְנוּתָ֔הּ1
- זְנוּתֵיכֶ֑ם1
- זְנוּתֵ֔ךְ1
- זְנוּתֵ֖ךְ1
- זְנוּתָ֛ם1
The grammar of each form
- noun · feminine singular2HNcfsa
- noun · feminine singular · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 2nd person feminine singular2HNcfsc/Sp2fs
- noun · feminine singular · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 3rd person feminine singular1HNcfsc/Sp3fs
- noun · feminine singular · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 3rd person masculine plural1HNcfsc/Sp3mp
- noun · masculine plural · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 2nd person masculine plural1HNcmpc/Sp2mp
- preposition + noun · feminine singular · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 3rd person masculine plural1HR/Ncfsc/Sp3mp
- preposition + noun · masculine plural · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 2nd person feminine singular1HR/Ncmpc/Sp2fs
Numbers
one use
Your children will be shepherds in the wilderness for forty years, and they will suffer for your unfaithfulness until the last of your bodies lies in the wilderness.
- זְנוּתֵיכֶ֑םzenuteikhemnoun · masculine plural · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 2nd person masculine pluraltagged: prostitution your
Jeremiah
three uses
“Lift up your eyes to the barren heights and see. Is there any place where you have not been violated? You sat beside the highways waiting for your lovers, like a nomad in the desert. You have defiled the land with your prostitution and wickedness.
- בִּזְנוּתַ֖יִךְbiznutayikhpreposition + noun · masculine plural · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 2nd person feminine singulartagged: by prostitution your
Indifferent to her own infidelity, Israel had defiled the land and committed adultery with stones and trees.
- זְנוּתָ֔הּzenutahnoun · feminine singular · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 3rd person feminine singulartagged: prostitution her
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?”
- זְנוּתֵ֔ךְzenutekhnoun · feminine singular · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 2nd person feminine singulartagged: prostitution your
Ezekiel
three uses
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.’
- זְנוּתֵ֖ךְzenutekhnoun · feminine singular · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 2nd person feminine singulartagged: prostitution your
and He said to me, “Son of man, this is the place of My throne and the place for the soles of My feet, where I will dwell among the Israelites forever. The house of Israel will never again defile My holy name—neither they nor their kings—by their prostitution and by the funeral offerings for their kings at their deaths.
- בִּזְנוּתָ֔םbiznutampreposition + noun · feminine singular · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 3rd person masculine pluraltagged: by prostitution their
Now let them remove far from Me their prostitution and the funeral offerings for their kings, and I will dwell among them forever.
- זְנוּתָ֛םzenutamnoun · feminine singular · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 3rd person masculine pluraltagged: prostitution their
Hosea
two uses
Promiscuity, wine, and new wine take away understanding.
- זְנ֛וּתzenutnoun · feminine singulartagged: prostitution
In the house of Israel I have seen a horrible thing: Ephraim practices prostitution there, and Israel is defiled.
- זְנ֣וּתzenutnoun · feminine singulartagged: prostitution
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.