נָאַף

You shall not commit adultery.

Exodus 20:14

• תִּֿנְאָֽ֑ף׃ סtneafverb · simple (qal), yiqtol (imperfect) · 2nd person masculine singulartagged: you must commit adultery

If a man commits adultery with another man’s wife—with the wife of his neighbor—both the adulterer and the adulteress must surely be put to death.

Leviticus 20:10

• יִנְאַף֙yinafverb · simple (qal), yiqtol (imperfect) · 3rd person masculine singulartagged: he will commit adultery
• יִנְאַ֖ףyinafverb · simple (qal), yiqtol (imperfect) · 3rd person masculine singulartagged: he will commit adultery
• הַנֹּאֵ֖ףhanoefthe definite article (“the”) + verb · simple (qal), participle · masculine singulartagged: the adulterer
• וְהַנֹּאָֽפֶת׃vehanoafetconjunction (“and”) + the definite article (“the”) + verb · simple (qal), participle · feminine singulartagged: and the adulteress

You shall not commit adultery.

Deuteronomy 5:18

• תִּֿנְאָֽ֑ף׃ סtneafverb · simple (qal), yiqtol (imperfect) · 2nd person masculine singulartagged: you must commit adultery

The eye of the adulterer watches for twilight. Thinking, ‘No eye will see me,’ he covers his face.

Job 24:15

• נֹאֵ֨ף׀noefverb · simple (qal), participle · masculine singulartagged: an adulterer

When you see a thief, you befriend him, and throw in your lot with adulterers.

Psalms 50:18

• מְנָאֲפִ֣יםmenaafimverb · intensive (piel), participle · masculine pluraltagged: adulterers

He who commits adultery lacks judgment; whoever does so destroys himself.

Proverbs 6:32

• נֹאֵ֣ףnoefverb · simple (qal), participle · masculine singulartagged: commits adultery

This is the way of an adulteress: She eats and wipes her mouth and says, ‘I have done nothing wrong.’

Proverbs 30:20

• מְנָ֫אָ֥פֶתmenaafetverb · intensive (piel), participle · feminine singulartagged: adulterous

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

Isaiah 57:3

• מְנָאֵ֖ףmenaefverb · intensive (piel), participle · masculine singulartagged: adulterous

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

• נִֽאֲפָה֙niafahverb · intensive (piel), qatal (perfect) · 3rd person feminine singulartagged: she committed adultery

Indifferent to her own infidelity, Israel had defiled the land and committed adultery with stones and trees.

Jeremiah 3:9

• וַתִּנְאַ֥ףvatinafHc/Vqw3fstagged: and she committed adultery

“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

• וַיִּנְאָ֔פוּvaiyinafuHc/Vqw3mptagged: and they committed adultery

Will you steal and murder, commit adultery and perjury, burn incense to Baal, and follow other gods that you have not known,

Jeremiah 7:9

• וְֽנָאֹ֔ףvenaofconjunction (“and”) + verb · simple (qal), infinitive absolutetagged: and will you commit adultery

If only I had a traveler’s lodge in the wilderness, I would abandon my people and depart from them, for they are all adulterers, a crowd of faithless people.

Jeremiah 9:2

• מְנָ֣אֲפִ֔יםmenaafimverb · intensive (piel), participle · masculine pluraltagged: adulterers

For the land is full of adulterers—because of the curse, the land mourns and the pastures of the wilderness have dried up—their course is evil and their power is misused.

Jeremiah 23:10

• מְנָֽאֲפִים֙menaafimverb · intensive (piel), participle · masculine pluraltagged: adulterers

And among the prophets of Jerusalem I have seen a horrible thing: They commit adultery and walk in lies. They strengthen the hands of evildoers, so that no one turns his back on wickedness. They are all like Sodom to Me; the people of Jerusalem are like Gomorrah.”

Jeremiah 23:14

• נָא֞וֹףnaofverb · simple (qal), infinitive absolutetagged: they have committed adultery

For they have committed an outrage in Israel by committing adultery with the wives of their neighbors and speaking lies in My name, which I did not command them to do. I am He who knows, and I am a witness, declares the LORD.”

Jeremiah 29:23

• וַיְנַֽאֲפוּ֙vaynaafuHc/Vpw3mptagged: and they committed adultery

You adulterous wife! You receive strangers instead of your own husband!

Ezekiel 16:32

• הַמְּנָאָ֑פֶתhamenaafetthe definite article (“the”) + verb · intensive (piel), participle · feminine singulartagged: the adulterous

And I will sentence you to the punishment of women who commit adultery and those who shed blood; so I will bring upon you the wrath of your bloodshed and jealousy.

Ezekiel 16:38

• נֹאֲפ֔וֹתnoafotverb · simple (qal), participle · feminine pluraltagged: adulteresses

For they have committed adultery, and blood is on their hands. They have committed adultery with their idols. They have even sacrificed their children, whom they bore to Me, in the fire as food for their idols.

Ezekiel 23:37

• נִאֵ֗פוּniefuverb · intensive (piel), qatal (perfect) · 3rd person common pluraltagged: they have committed adultery
• נִאֵ֑פוּniefuverb · intensive (piel), qatal (perfect) · 3rd person common pluraltagged: they have committed adultery

But righteous men will sentence them to the punishment of those who commit adultery and bloodshed, because they are adulteresses with blood on their hands.

Ezekiel 23:45

• נֹֽאֲפ֔וֹתnoafotverb · simple (qal), participle · feminine pluraltagged: adulteresses
• נֹֽאֲפֹת֙noafotverb · simple (qal), participle · feminine pluraltagged: adulteresses

Then the LORD said to me, “Go show love to your wife again, though she is loved by another and is an adulteress. Love her as the LORD loves the Israelites, though they turn to other gods and offer raisin cakes to idols.”

Hosea 3:1

• וּמְנָאָ֑פֶתumenaafetconjunction (“and”) + verb · intensive (piel), participle · feminine singulartagged: and commits adultery

Cursing and lying, murder and stealing, and adultery are rampant; one act of bloodshed follows another.

Hosea 4:2

• וְנָאֹ֑ףvenaofconjunction (“and”) + verb · simple (qal), infinitive absolutetagged: and committing adultery

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

• תְּנָאַֽפְנָה׃tenaafnahverb · intensive (piel), yiqtol (imperfect) · 3rd person feminine pluraltagged: they commit adultery

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

• תְנָאַ֔פְנָהtenaafnahverb · intensive (piel), yiqtol (imperfect) · 3rd person feminine pluraltagged: they commit adultery

They are all adulterers, like an oven heated by a baker who needs not stoke the fire from the kneading to the rising of the dough.

Hosea 7:4

• מְנָ֣אֲפִ֔יםmenaafimverb · intensive (piel), participle · masculine pluraltagged: adulterers

“Then I will draw near to you for judgment. And I will be a swift witness against sorcerers and adulterers and perjurers, against oppressors of the widowed and fatherless, and against those who defraud laborers of their wages and deny justice to the foreigner but do not fear Me,” says the LORD of Hosts.

Malachi 3:5

• וּבַמְנָ֣אֲפִ֔יםuvamnaafimconjunction (“and”) + preposition with the article + verb · intensive (piel), participle · masculine pluraltagged: and on the adulterers