za.nah H2181

זָנָה (za.nah) means “to fornicate” in the TBESH Hebrew lexicon from STEPBible.

זָנָה Hebrew · H2181 94 tagged occurrences in 83 verses

Pronunciation guide: zaw-naw' Strong’s Hebrew pronunciation spelling.

Lexicon entries

TBESH · H2181

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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Strong’s Hebrew dictionary

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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How translators render H2181

Counts below follow each translation’s tagged words. A rendering can cover a phrase. Differences in text editions and tagging can produce different totals.

BSB rendering counts
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

KJV rendering counts
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

Verses containing H2181

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Ezekiel 16:15 · BSB · 1 occurrence
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.
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Ezekiel 16:16 · BSB · 1 occurrence
You took some of your garments and made colorful high places for yourself, and on them you prostituted yourself. Such things should not have happened; never should they have occurred!
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Ezekiel 16:17 · BSB · 1 occurrence
You also took the fine jewelry of gold and silver I had given you, and you made male idols with which to prostitute yourself.
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Ezekiel 16:26 · BSB · 1 occurrence
You prostituted yourself with your lustful neighbors, the Egyptians, and increased your promiscuity to provoke Me to anger.
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Ezekiel 16:28 · BSB · 2 occurrences
Then you prostituted yourself with the Assyrians, because you were not yet satisfied. Even after that, you were still not satisfied.
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Ezekiel 16:30 · BSB · 1 occurrence
How weak-willed is your heart, declares the Lord GOD, while you do all these things, the acts of a shameless prostitute!
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Ezekiel 16:31 · BSB · 1 occurrence
But when you built your mounds at the head of every street and made your lofty shrines in every public square, you were not even like a prostitute, because you scorned payment.
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Ezekiel 16:33 · BSB · 1 occurrence
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.
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Ezekiel 16:34 · BSB · 1 occurrence
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!
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Ezekiel 16:35 · BSB · 1 occurrence
Therefore, O prostitute, hear the word of the LORD!
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Ezekiel 16:41 · BSB · 1 occurrence
Then they will burn down your houses and execute judgment against you in the sight of many women. I will put an end to your prostitution, and you will never again pay your lovers.
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Ezekiel 20:30 · BSB · 1 occurrence
Therefore tell the house of Israel that this is what the Lord GOD says: Will you defile yourselves the way your fathers did, prostituting yourselves with their abominations?
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Ezekiel 23:3 · BSB · 2 occurrences
and they played in Egypt, prostituting themselves from their youth. Their breasts were fondled there, and their virgin bosoms caressed.
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Ezekiel 23:5 · BSB · 1 occurrence
Oholah prostituted herself while she was still Mine. She lusted after her lovers, the Assyrians—warriors
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Ezekiel 23:19 · BSB · 1 occurrence
Yet she multiplied her promiscuity, remembering the days of her youth, when she had prostituted herself in the land of Egypt
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Ezekiel 23:30 · BSB · 1 occurrence
have brought these things upon you, because you have prostituted yourself with the nations and defiled yourself with their idols.
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Ezekiel 23:43 · BSB · 1 occurrence
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!’
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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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Hosea 1:2 · BSB · 2 occurrences
When the LORD first spoke through Hosea, He told him, “Go, take a prostitute as your wife and have children of adultery, because this land is flagrantly prostituting itself by departing from the LORD.”
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Hosea 2:5 · BSB · 1 occurrence
For their mother has played the harlot and has conceived them in disgrace. For she thought, ‘I will go after my lovers, who give me bread and water, wool and linen, oil and drink.’
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Source alternate reference: 2.7
Hosea 3:3 · BSB · 1 occurrence
Then I said to her, “You must live with me for many days; you must not be promiscuous or belong to another, and I will do the same for you.”
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Hosea 4:10 · BSB · 1 occurrence
They will eat but not be satisfied; they will be promiscuous but not multiply. For they have abandoned the LORD to give themselves
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Hosea 4:12 · BSB · 1 occurrence
My people consult their wooden idols, and their divining rods inform them. For a spirit of prostitution leads them astray and they have played the harlot against their God.
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Hosea 4:13 · BSB · 1 occurrence
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.
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Hosea 4:14 · BSB · 2 occurrences
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.
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Hosea 4:15 · BSB · 1 occurrence
Though you prostitute yourself, O Israel, may Judah avoid such guilt! Do not journey to Gilgal, do not go up to Beth-aven, and do not swear on oath, ‘As surely as the LORD lives!’
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Hosea 4:18 · BSB · 2 occurrences
When their liquor is gone, they turn to prostitution; their rulers dearly love disgrace.
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Hosea 5:3 · BSB · 1 occurrence
I know all about Ephraim, and Israel is not hidden from Me. For now, O Ephraim, you have turned to prostitution; Israel is defiled.
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Hosea 9:1 · BSB · 1 occurrence
Do not rejoice, O Israel, with exultation like the nations, for you have played the harlot against your God; you have made love for hire on every threshing floor.
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Joel 3:3 · BSB · 1 occurrence
They cast lots for My people; they bartered a boy for a prostitute and sold a girl for wine to drink.
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Source alternate reference: 4.3
Amos 7:17 · BSB · 1 occurrence
Therefore this is what the LORD says: ‘Your wife will become a prostitute in the city, and your sons and daughters will fall by the sword. Your land will be divided by a measuring line, and you yourself will die on pagan soil. And Israel will surely go into exile, away from their homeland.’”
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Micah 1:7 · BSB · 2 occurrences
All her carved images will be smashed to pieces; all her wages will be burned in the fire, and I will destroy all her idols. Since she collected the wages of a prostitute, they will be used again on a prostitute.
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Nahum 3:4 · BSB · 1 occurrence
because of the many harlotries of the harlot, the seductive mistress of sorcery, who betrays nations by her prostitution and clans by her witchcraft.
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