Hebrew noun (feminine) · H8457
תַּזְנוּת
taznuthtaz-nooth'
fornication
20 uses in the Hebrew text, one for each word STEP Bible has tagged with this key
Concordance spelling: taznûwth
Word page · Part of the concordance, one page for every word of the Hebrew and Greek text. Strong's H8457is this word's number in James Strong's 1890 index of the King James Bible.
- 1 of 39Old Testament books
- 19spellings
The definition in full
Strong's key (1890) · H8457
harlotry, i.e. (figuratively) idolatry
The King James renders it: fornication, 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
taznuth is rendered "fornication". It stands 20 times in the Hebrew text, across one book.
- Twenty of the uses stand in Ezekiel, more than in any other book.
- Its first use in canonical order opens the ledger below.Ezekiel 16:15But 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.
- The Greek text spells it nineteen different ways.
The first use
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 16:15תַּזְנוּתַ֛יִךְ
The first use, in the order of the Old Testament's books.
Where the word stands
Twenty of the word's twenty uses are in Ezekiel.
What the word means
Each meaning, and the words it is translated by
How the Greek text is glossed, word by word
- prostitutions her7
- prostitutions your3
- and prostitutions your2
- in prostitutions your2
- prostitution your2
- by prostitution their1
- by prostitutions your1
- from prostitutions your1
- 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 20, in canonical order
Every use, in order
Every use, grouped by book, with its verse.
19 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
- תַּזְנוּתֶ֑יהָ2
- בְּתַזְנוּתַ֔יִךְ1
- בְּתַזְנוּתַ֖יִךְ1
- בְּתַזְנוּתָֽיִךְ׃1
- בְּתַזְנוּתָ֑ם1
- וְתַזְנוּתָֽיִךְ׃1
- וְתַזְנֻתַ֔יִךְ1
- מִתַּזְנוּתָֽיִךְ׃1
- תַזְנוּתֶ֖הָ1
- תַּזְנוּתֶ֙יהָ֙1
- תַּזְנוּתֶ֤יהָ1
- תַּ֨זְנוּתֶ֔יהָ1
and 7 more spellings in the ledger below.
The grammar of each form
- noun · masculine plural · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 3rd person feminine singular6HNcmpc/Sp3fs
- preposition + noun · masculine plural · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 2nd person feminine singular4HR/Ncmpc/Sp2fs
- noun · masculine plural · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 2nd person feminine singular3HNcmpc/Sp2fs
- conjunction (“and”) + noun · masculine plural · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 2nd person feminine singular2HC/Ncmpc/Sp2fs
- 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
- preposition + noun · feminine singular · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 3rd person masculine plural1HR/Ncfsc/Sp3mp
Ezekiel
twenty uses
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.
- תַּזְנוּתַ֛יִךְtaznutayikhnoun · masculine plural · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 2nd person feminine singulartagged: prostitutions your
You even took the sons and daughters you bore to Me and sacrificed them as food to idols. Was your prostitution not enough?
- מִתַּזְנוּתָֽיִךְ׃mitaznutekhpreposition + noun · masculine plural · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 2nd person feminine singulartagged: from prostitutions your
And in all your abominations and acts of prostitution, you did not remember the days of your youth when you were naked and bare, wallowing in your own blood.
- וְתַזְנֻתַ֔יִךְvetaznutayikhconjunction (“and”) + noun · masculine plural · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 2nd person feminine singulartagged: and prostitutions your
At the head of every street you built your lofty shrines and degraded your beauty. With increasing promiscuity, you spread your legs to all who passed by.
- תַּזְנוּתָֽיִךְ׃taznutekhnoun · masculine plural · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 2nd person feminine singulartagged: prostitutions your
You prostituted yourself with your lustful neighbors, the Egyptians, and increased your promiscuity to provoke Me to anger.
- תַּזְנֻתֵ֖ךְtaznutekhnoun · feminine singular · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 2nd person feminine singulartagged: prostitution your
So you extended your promiscuity to Chaldea, the land of merchants—but even with this you were not satisfied!
- תַּזְנוּתֵ֛ךְtaznutekhnoun · feminine singular · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 2nd person feminine singulartagged: prostitution your
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.
- בְּתַזְנוּתָֽיִךְ׃betaznutayikhpreposition + noun · masculine plural · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 2nd person feminine singulartagged: by prostitutions your
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!
- בְּתַזְנוּתַ֔יִךְbetaznutayikhpreposition + noun · masculine plural · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 2nd person feminine singulartagged: in prostitutions your
This is what the Lord GOD says: Because you poured out your wealth and exposed your nakedness in your promiscuity with your lovers and with all your detestable idols, and because of the blood of your children which you gave to them,
- בְּתַזְנוּתַ֖יִךְbetaznutayikhpreposition + noun · masculine plural · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 2nd person feminine singulartagged: in prostitutions your
She offered sexual favors to all the elite of Assyria. She defiled herself with all the idols of those for whom she lusted.
- תַּזְנוּתֶ֙יהָ֙taznuteihanoun · masculine plural · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 3rd person feminine singulartagged: prostitutions her
She did not give up the prostitution she began in Egypt, when men slept with her in her youth, caressed her virgin bosom, and poured out their lust upon her.
- תַּזְנוּתֶ֤יהָtaznuteihanoun · masculine plural · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 3rd person feminine singulartagged: prostitutions her
- תַזְנוּתָ֖םtaznutamnoun · feminine singular · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 3rd person masculine pluraltagged: prostitution their
Her sister Oholibah saw this, yet in her lust and prostitution she was more depraved than her sister.
- תַּ֨זְנוּתֶ֔יהָtaznuteihanoun · masculine plural · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 3rd person feminine singulartagged: prostitutions her
But Oholibah carried her prostitution even further. She saw the men portrayed on the wall, images of the Chaldeans, engraved in vermilion,
- תַּזְנוּתֶ֑יהָtaznuteihanoun · masculine plural · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 3rd person feminine singulartagged: prostitutions her
Then the Babylonians came to her, to the bed of love, and in their lust they defiled her. But after she had been defiled by them, she turned away in disgust.
- בְּתַזְנוּתָ֑םbetaznutampreposition + noun · feminine singular · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 3rd person masculine pluraltagged: by prostitution their
When Oholibah openly prostituted herself and exposed her nakedness, I turned away from her in disgust, just as I had turned away from her sister.
- תַּזְנוּתֶ֔יהָtaznuteihanoun · masculine plural · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 3rd person feminine singulartagged: prostitutions her
Yet she multiplied her promiscuity, remembering the days of her youth, when she had prostituted herself in the land of Egypt
- תַּזְנוּתֶ֑יהָtaznuteihanoun · masculine plural · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 3rd person feminine singulartagged: prostitutions her
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
- וְתַזְנוּתָֽיִךְ׃vetaznutayikhconjunction (“and”) + noun · masculine plural · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 2nd person feminine singulartagged: and prostitutions 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.’”
- תַּזְנוּתָֽיִךְ׃ סtaznutayikhnoun · masculine plural · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 2nd person feminine singulartagged: prostitutions your
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!’
- תַזְנוּתֶ֖הָtaznutehanoun · feminine singular · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 3rd person feminine singulartagged: prostitutions her
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.
