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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 39
    Old Testament books
  • 19
    spellings

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.

The other 38 Old Testament books never use the word.

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.

    Ezekiel 16:15

    • 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?

    Ezekiel 16:20

    • 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.

    Ezekiel 16:22

    • 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.

    Ezekiel 16:25

    • 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.

    Ezekiel 16:26

    • 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!

    Ezekiel 16:29

    • 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.

    Ezekiel 16:33

    • 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!

    Ezekiel 16:34

    • 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,

    Ezekiel 16:36

    • 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.

    Ezekiel 23:7

    • 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.

    Ezekiel 23:8

    • 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.

    Ezekiel 23:11

    • 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,

    Ezekiel 23:14

    • 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.

    Ezekiel 23:17

    • 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.

    Ezekiel 23:18

    • 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

    Ezekiel 23:19

    • 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

    Ezekiel 23:29

    • 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.’”

    Ezekiel 23:35

    • 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!’

    Ezekiel 23:43

    • תַזְנוּתֶ֖הָtaznutehanoun · feminine singular · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 3rd person feminine singulartagged: prostitutions her

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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.

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Dictionary key: Strong's Exhaustive Concordance of the Bible (1890, public domain). English verse text: Berean Standard Bible (public domain, 2023).

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