זָנָה (za.nah) means “to fornicate” in the TBESH Hebrew lexicon from STEPBible.
Pronunciation guide: zaw-naw' Strong’s Hebrew pronunciation spelling.
זָנָה · za.nah · to fornicate
1) to commit fornication, be a harlot, play the harlot 1a) (Qal) 1a1) to be a harlot, act as a harlot, commit fornication 1a2) to commit adultery 1a3) to be a cult prostitute 1a4) to be unfaithful (to God) (fig.) 1b) (Pual) to play the harlot 1c) (Hiphil) 1c1) to cause to commit adultery 1c2) to force into prostitution 1c3) to commit fornication
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a primitive root (highly-fed and therefore wanton); to commit adultery (usually of the female, and less often of simple fornication, rarely of involuntary ravishment); figuratively, to commit idolatry (the Jewish people being regarded as the spouse of Jehovah)
KJV glosses: (cause to) commit fornication, [idiom] continually, [idiom] great, (be an, play the) harlot, (cause to be, play the) whore, (commit, fall to) whoredom, (cause to) go a-whoring, whorish.
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Counts below follow each translation’s tagged words. A rendering can cover a phrase. Differences in text editions and tagging can produce different totals.
| Rendering | Count |
|---|---|
| a prostitute | 3 |
| of a prostitute | 3 |
| and prostituted themselves | 2 |
| as a prostitute | 2 |
| by prostitution | 2 |
| of prostitutes | 2 |
| of the harlot | 2 |
| of the prostitute | 2 |
| prostitutes | 2 |
| the prostitute | 2 |
| to prostitute themselves | 2 |
| you prostituted yourself | 2 |
| a harlot | 1 |
| and played the harlot | 1 |
| and prostitute themselves | 1 |
| and prostituted herself | 1 |
| and prostitutes | 1 |
| and they have played the harlot | 1 |
| and they played | 1 |
| and they prostituted | 1 |
| be promiscuous | 1 |
| because you have prostituted yourself | 1 |
| by being promiscuous | 1 |
| by making her a prostitute | 1 |
| by prostituting herself | 1 |
| by their adulterous | 1 |
| even after that | 1 |
| for a prostitute | 1 |
| for when they prostitute themselves | 1 |
| harlot | 1 |
| has played the harlot | 1 |
| has prostituted herself | 1 |
| have played the harlot | 1 |
| have prostituted | 1 |
| in prostituting themselves | 1 |
| is flagrantly prostituting itself | 1 |
| let them use her as a prostitute | 1 |
| like a prostitute | 1 |
| o prostitute | 1 |
| of a harlot | 1 |
| of a prostitute whether female | 1 |
| on a prostitute | 1 |
| prostitute | 1 |
| prostitute yourself | 1 |
| prostitute yourselves | 1 |
| prostituted herself | 1 |
| prostituted itself | 1 |
| prostituted themselves | 1 |
| prostituting | 1 |
| prostituting themselves | 1 |
| she had prostituted herself | 1 |
| she was a prostitute | 1 |
| that lusted | 1 |
| their prostitutes | 1 |
| then you prostituted yourself | 1 |
| they prostitute themselves | 1 |
| they prostituted | 1 |
| they turn to prostitution | 1 |
| they will be promiscuous | 1 |
| to do the same | 1 |
| to indulge in sexual immorality | 1 |
| to prostitute herself | 1 |
| to prostitute himself | 1 |
| to prostitute yourself | 1 |
| to your prostitution | 1 |
| turn to prostitution | 1 |
| was unfaithful | 1 |
| where the prostitutes | 1 |
| who are unfaithful | 1 |
| will be prostituted | 1 |
| will become a prostitute | 1 |
| will prostitute themselves | 1 |
| you have played the harlot | 1 |
| you have turned to prostitution | 1 |
| your favors | 1 |
| Rendering | Count |
|---|---|
| of an harlot | 4 |
| and went a whoring | 3 |
| an harlot | 2 |
| and playedst the harlot | 2 |
| go a whoring | 2 |
| hath played the harlot | 2 |
| the harlot | 2 |
| to go a whoring | 2 |
| a whore | 1 |
| a whorish | 1 |
| all them that go a whoring | 1 |
| and all that go a whoring | 1 |
| and commit ye whoredom | 1 |
| and didst commit whoredom | 1 |
| and go a whoring | 1 |
| and hast not been as an harlot | 1 |
| and make | 1 |
| and played the harlot | 1 |
| and shall commit fornication | 1 |
| and the whore | 1 |
| and there hath played the harlot | 1 |
| and they committed whoredoms | 1 |
| and they go a whoring | 1 |
| and they have gone a whoring | 1 |
| and thou hadst a whores | 1 |
| as an harlot | 1 |
| as with an harlot | 1 |
| become an harlot | 1 |
| but they went a whoring | 1 |
| but thou hast played the harlot | 1 |
| continually | 1 |
| fall to whoredom | 1 |
| for a whore | 1 |
| for an harlot | 1 |
| for thou hast gone a whoring | 1 |
| from playing the harlot | 1 |
| harlot | 1 |
| harlots | 1 |
| hath committed great | 1 |
| herself by playing the whore | 1 |
| him to commit whoredom | 1 |
| in the harlots | 1 |
| into an harlots | 1 |
| into the harlots | 1 |
| like to the whoredoms | 1 |
| of a whore | 1 |
| play the harlot | 1 |
| played the harlot | 1 |
| played the whore | 1 |
| playing the harlot | 1 |
| shall be an harlot | 1 |
| shall commit whoredom | 1 |
| that playeth the harlot | 1 |
| thee to commit whoredoms | 1 |
| there an harlot | 1 |
| they committed whoredoms | 1 |
| they have committed whoredom | 1 |
| they shall commit whoredom | 1 |
| thou committest whoredom | 1 |
| thou harlot | 1 |
| thou hast also committed fornication | 1 |
| thou hast played the whore | 1 |
| thou shalt not play the harlot | 1 |
| to all whores | 1 |
| to cause her to be a whore | 1 |
| to commit fornication | 1 |
| to commit whoredom | 1 |
| to play the whore | 1 |
| unto thee because thou hast gone a whoring | 1 |
| went thither a whoring | 1 |
| when they commit whoredom | 1 |
| wherefore o harlot | 1 |
| wherein she had played the harlot | 1 |
| which go a whoring | 1 |
| which ye use to go a whoring | 1 |
| whom they have gone a whoring | 1 |
| whoredom | 1 |
| whorish | 1 |
| will they now commit | 1 |
| with harlots | 1 |
| with their whorish | 1 |
| with whores | 1 |
| yea thou hast played the harlot | 1 |
Page 1 of 2. 83 verses in the selected STEP text, printed below in BSB where available. Read each verse in its chapter to follow the author’s thought.
But they replied, “Should he have treated our sister like a prostitute?”
Read word by wordWhen Judah saw her, he thought she was a prostitute because she had covered her face.
Read word by wordAbout three months later, Judah was told, “Your daughter-in-law Tamar has prostituted herself, and now she is pregnant.” “Bring her out!” Judah replied. “Let her be burned to death!”
Read word by wordDo not make a covenant with the inhabitants of the land, for when they prostitute themselves to their gods and sacrifice to them, they will invite you, and you will eat their sacrifices.
Read word by wordAnd when you take some of their daughters as brides for your sons, their daughters will prostitute themselves to their gods and cause your sons to do the same.
Read word by wordThey must no longer offer their sacrifices to the goat demons to which they have prostituted themselves. This will be a permanent statute for them for the generations to come.’
Read word by wordYou must not defile your daughter by making her a prostitute, or the land will be prostituted and filled with depravity.
Read word by wordthen I will set My face against that man and his family and cut off from among their people both him and all who follow him in prostituting themselves with Molech.
Read word by wordWhoever turns to mediums or spiritists to prostitute himself with them, I will also set My face against that person and cut him off from his people.
Read word by wordA priest must not marry a woman defiled by prostitution or divorced by her husband, for the priest is holy to his God.
Read word by wordIf a priest’s daughter defiles herself by prostituting herself, she profanes her father; she must be burned in the fire.
Read word by wordHe is not to marry a widow, a divorced woman, or one defiled by prostitution. He is to marry a virgin from his own people,
Read word by wordThese will serve as tassels for you to look at, so that you may remember all the commandments of the LORD, that you may obey them and not prostitute yourselves by following your own heart and your own eyes.
Read word by wordWhile Israel was staying in Shittim, the men began to indulge in sexual immorality with the daughters of Moab,
Read word by wordshe shall be brought to the door of her father’s house, and there the men of her city will stone her to death. For she has committed an outrage in Israel by being promiscuous in her father’s house. So you must purge the evil from among you.
Read word by wordYou must not bring the wages of a prostitute, whether female or male, into the house of the LORD your God to fulfill any vow, because both are detestable to the LORD your God.
Read word by wordSource alternate reference: 23.19
And the LORD said to Moses, “You will soon rest with your fathers, and these people will rise up and prostitute themselves with the foreign gods of the land they are entering. They will forsake Me and break the covenant I have made with them.
Read word by wordThen Joshua son of Nun secretly sent two spies from Shittim, saying, “Go, inspect the land, especially Jericho.” So they went and entered the house of a prostitute named Rahab and stayed there.
Read word by wordNow the city and everything in it must be devoted to the LORD for destruction. Only Rahab the prostitute and all those with her in her house will live, because she hid the spies we sent.
Read word by wordMeanwhile, Joshua told the two men who had spied out the land, “Go into the house of the prostitute and bring out the woman and all who are with her, just as you promised her.”
Read word by wordAnd Joshua spared Rahab the prostitute, with her father’s household and all who belonged to her, because she hid the men Joshua had sent to spy out Jericho. So she has lived among the Israelites to this day.
Read word by wordIsrael, however, did not listen to their judges. Instead, they prostituted themselves with other gods and bowed down to them. They quickly turned from the way of their fathers, who had walked in obedience to the LORD’s commandments; they did not do as their fathers had done.
Read word by wordFrom all this Gideon made an ephod, which he placed in Ophrah, his hometown. But soon all Israel prostituted themselves by worshiping it there, and it became a snare to Gideon and his household.
Read word by wordAnd as soon as Gideon was dead, the Israelites turned and prostituted themselves with the Baals, and they set up Baal-berith as their god.
Read word by wordNow Jephthah the Gileadite was a mighty man of valor; he was the son of a prostitute, and Gilead was his father.
Read word by wordOne day Samson went to Gaza, where he saw a prostitute and went in to spend the night with her.
Read word by wordBut she was unfaithful to him and left him to return to her father’s house in Bethlehem in Judah. After she had been there four months,
Read word by wordAt that time two prostitutes came to the king and stood before him.
Read word by wordAnd the chariot was washed at the pool of Samaria where the prostitutes bathed, and the dogs licked up Ahab’s blood, according to the word that the LORD had spoken.
Read word by wordBut they were unfaithful to the God of their fathers, and they prostituted themselves with the gods of the peoples of the land, whom God had destroyed before them.
Read word by wordJehoram had also built high places on the hills of Judah; he had caused the people of Jerusalem to prostitute themselves and had led Judah astray.
Read word by wordbut you have walked in the ways of the kings of Israel and have caused Judah and the people of Jerusalem to prostitute themselves, just as the house of Ahab prostituted itself. You have also killed your brothers, your father’s family, who were better than you.
Read word by wordThose far from You will surely perish; You destroy all who are unfaithful to You.
Read word by wordThey defiled themselves by their actions and prostituted themselves by their deeds.
Read word by wordFor the levy of the prostitute is poverty, and the adulteress preys upon your very life.
Read word by wordThen a woman came out to meet him, with the attire of a harlot and cunning of heart.
Read word by wordFor a prostitute is a deep pit, and an adulteress is a narrow well.
Read word by wordA man who loves wisdom brings joy to his father, but a companion of prostitutes squanders his wealth.
Read word by wordSee how the faithful city has become a harlot! She once was full of justice; righteousness resided within her, but now only murderers!
Read word by wordAt that time Tyre will be forgotten for seventy years—the span of a king’s life. But at the end of seventy years, it will happen to Tyre as in the song of the harlot:
Read word by word“Take up your harp, stroll through the city, O forgotten harlot. Make sweet melody, sing many a song, so you will be remembered.”
Read word by wordAnd at the end of seventy years, the LORD will restore Tyre. Then she will return to hire as a prostitute and sell herself to all the kingdoms on the face of the earth.
Read word by word“But come here, you sons of a sorceress, you offspring of adulterers and prostitutes!
Read word by word“For long ago you broke your yoke and tore off your chains, saying, ‘I will not serve!’ Indeed, on every high hill and under every green tree you lay down as a prostitute.
Read word by word“If a man divorces his wife and she leaves him to marry another, can he ever return to her? Would not such a land be completely defiled? But you have played the harlot with many lovers—and you would return to Me?” declares the LORD.
Read word by wordTherefore the showers have been withheld, and no spring rains have fallen. Yet you have the brazen look of a prostitute; you refuse to be ashamed.
Read word by wordNow in the days of King Josiah, the LORD said to me, “Have you seen what faithless Israel has done? She has gone up on every high hill and under every green tree to prostitute herself there.
Read word by wordShe 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.
Read word by word“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.
Read word by wordThen in the nations to which they have been carried captive, your survivors will remember Me—how I have been grieved by their adulterous hearts that turned away from Me, and by their eyes that lusted after idols. So they will loathe themselves for the evil they have done and for all their abominations.
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