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zim.mah H2154

זִמָּה (zim.mah) means “wickedness” in the TBESH Hebrew lexicon from STEPBible.

זִמָּה Hebrew · H2154 29 tagged occurrences in 27 verses

Pronunciation guide: zim-maw' Strong’s Hebrew pronunciation spelling.

Lexicon entries

TBESH · H2154

זִמָּה · zim.mah · wickedness

1) plan, device, wickedness, evil plan, mischievous purpose 1a) plan, purpose 1b) evil device, wickedness 1c) not chaste, incest, licentiousness, adultery, idolatry, harlotry

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Strong’s Hebrew dictionary

or זַמָּה; from H2161 (זָמַם); a plan, especially a bad one

KJV glosses: heinous crime, lewd(-ly, -ness), mischief, purpose, thought, wicked (device, mind, -ness).

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How translators render H2154

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BSB rendering counts
Rendering Count
is depraved 2
your indecency 2
a heinous crime 1
a lewd 1
acts of indecency 1
after wickedness 1
are wicked schemes 1
atrocities 1
depravity 1
in shameful 1
my plans 1
of the indecency 1
of your indecency 1
of your lewd 1
of your lewdness 1
plots 1
scheme 1
the indecency 1
this lewdness 1
those lewd 1
to indecency 1
wickedly 1
with depravity 1
with ill intent 1
you for your indecency 1
your behavior 1
your shameless 1
KJV rendering counts
Rendering Count
lewdness 4
mischief 2
the lewdness 2
wickedness 2
after mischief 1
after your lewdness 1
an heinous crime 1
both he and they that there be no wickedness 1
both thy lewdness 1
hath lewdly 1
it with a wicked mind 1
my purposes 1
of thy lewd 1
of wickedness 1
the lewd 1
the thought 1
this lewdness 1
thou also thy lewdness 1
thus will i cause lewdness 1
thus will i make thy lewdness 1
thy lewdness 1
wicked devices 1
your lewdness 1

Verses containing H2154

Page 1 of 1. 27 verses in the selected STEP text, printed below in BSB where available. Read each verse in its chapter to follow the author’s thought.

  1. Leviticus 18:17 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    You must not have sexual relations with both a woman and her daughter. You are not to marry her son’s daughter or her daughter’s daughter and have sexual relations with her. They are close relatives; it is depraved.

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  2. Leviticus 19:29 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    You must not defile your daughter by making her a prostitute, or the land will be prostituted and filled with depravity.

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  3. Leviticus 20:14 · BSB · 2 occurrences

    If a man marries both a woman and her mother, it is depraved. Both he and they must be burned in the fire, so that there will be no depravity among you.

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  4. Judges 20:6 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    Then I took my concubine, cut her into pieces, and sent her throughout the land of Israel’s inheritance, because they had committed a lewd and disgraceful act in Israel.

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  5. Job 17:11 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    My days have passed; my plans are broken off—even the desires of my heart.

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  6. Job 31:11 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    For that would be a heinous crime, an iniquity to be judged.

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  7. Psalms 26:10 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    in whose hands are wicked schemes, whose right hands are full of bribes.

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  8. Psalms 119:150 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    Those who follow after wickedness draw near; they are far from Your law.

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  9. Proverbs 10:23 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    The fool delights in shameful conduct, but a man of understanding has wisdom.

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  10. Proverbs 21:27 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    The sacrifice of the wicked is detestable—how much more so when brought with ill intent!

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  11. Proverbs 24:9 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    A foolish scheme is sin, and a mocker is detestable to men.

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  12. Isaiah 32:7 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    The weapons of the scoundrel are destructive; he hatches plots to destroy the poor with lies, even when the plea of the needy is just.

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  13. Jeremiah 13:27 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    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?”

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  14. Ezekiel 16:27 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    Therefore I stretched out My hand against you and reduced your portion. I gave you over to the desire of those who hate you, the daughters of the Philistines, who were ashamed of your lewd conduct.

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  15. Ezekiel 16:43 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    Because you did not remember the days of your youth, but enraged Me with all these things, I will surely bring your deeds down upon your own head, declares the Lord GOD. Have you not committed this lewdness on top of all your other abominations?

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  16. Ezekiel 16:58 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    You will bear the consequences of your lewdness and your abominations, declares the LORD.

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  17. Ezekiel 22:9 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    Among you are slanderous men bent on bloodshed; within you are those who eat on the mountain shrines and commit acts of indecency.

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  18. Ezekiel 22:11 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    One man commits an abomination with his neighbor’s wife; another wickedly defiles his daughter-in-law; and yet another violates his sister, his own father’s daughter.

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  19. Ezekiel 23:21 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    So you revisited the indecency of your youth, when the Egyptians caressed your bosom and pressed your young breasts.

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  20. Ezekiel 23:27 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    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.’

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  21. Ezekiel 23:29 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    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

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  22. Ezekiel 23:35 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    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.’”

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  23. Ezekiel 23:44 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    And they slept with her as with a prostitute; they slept with Oholah and Oholibah, those lewd women.

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  24. Ezekiel 23:48 · BSB · 2 occurrences

    So I will put an end to indecency in the land, and all the women will be admonished not to imitate your behavior.

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  25. Ezekiel 23:49 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    They will repay you for your indecency, and you will bear the consequences of your sins of idolatry. Then you will know that I am the Lord GOD.’”

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  26. Ezekiel 24:13 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    Because of the indecency of your uncleanness I tried to cleanse you, but you would not be purified from your filthiness. You will not be pure again until My wrath against you has subsided.

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  27. Hosea 6:9 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    Like raiders who lie in ambush, so does a band of priests; they murder on the way to Shechem; surely they have committed atrocities.

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