נָאַף (na.aph) means “to commit adultery” in the TBESH Hebrew lexicon from STEPBible.
Pronunciation guide: naw-af' Strong’s Hebrew pronunciation spelling.
נָאַף · na.aph · to commit adultery
1) to commit adultery 1a) (Qal) 1a1) to commit adultery 1a1a) usually of man 1a1a1) always with wife of another 1a1b) adultery (of women) (participle) 1a2) idolatrous worship (fig.) 1b) (Piel) 1b1) to commit adultery 1b1a) of man 1b1b) adultery (of women) (participle) 1b2) idolatrous worship (fig.)
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a primitive root; to commit adultery; figuratively, to apostatize
KJV glosses: adulterer(-ess), commit(-ing) adultery, woman that breaketh wedlock.
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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 |
|---|---|
| adulterers | 4 |
| commit adultery | 3 |
| they commit adultery | 2 |
| they have committed adultery | 2 |
| and adulterers | 1 |
| and adultery | 1 |
| and committed adultery | 1 |
| and is an adulteress | 1 |
| and the adulteress | 1 |
| are adulteresses | 1 |
| both the adulterer | 1 |
| by committing adultery | 1 |
| commits adultery | 1 |
| had committed adultery | 1 |
| he who commits adultery | 1 |
| of adulterers | 1 |
| of the adulterer | 1 |
| of women who commit adultery | 1 |
| those who commit adultery | 1 |
| to adultery | 1 |
| yet they committed adultery | 1 |
| you adulterous wife | 1 |
| Rendering | Count |
|---|---|
| that committeth adultery | 3 |
| all adulterers | 2 |
| adulteresses | 1 |
| adultery | 1 |
| also of the adulterer | 1 |
| and against the adulterers | 1 |
| and commit adultery | 1 |
| and committed adultery | 1 |
| and committing adultery | 1 |
| and the adulteress | 1 |
| committed adultery | 1 |
| have they committed adultery | 1 |
| neither shalt thou commit adultery | 1 |
| of adulterers | 1 |
| of adulteresses | 1 |
| of an adulterous | 1 |
| of the adulterer | 1 |
| shall commit adultery | 1 |
| that they have committed adultery | 1 |
| the adulterer | 1 |
| thee as women that break wedlock | 1 |
| they commit adultery | 1 |
| they then committed adultery | 1 |
| thou shalt not commit adultery | 1 |
| when they commit adultery | 1 |
| whoso committeth adultery | 1 |
| with adulterers | 1 |
| yet an adulteress | 1 |
Page 1 of 1. 26 verses in the selected STEP text, printed below in BSB where available. Read each verse in its chapter to follow the author’s thought.
You shall not commit adultery.
Read word by wordIf a man commits adultery with another man’s wife—with the wife of his neighbor—both the adulterer and the adulteress must surely be put to death.
Read word by wordYou shall not commit adultery.
Read word by wordThe eye of the adulterer watches for twilight. Thinking, ‘No eye will see me,’ he covers his face.
Read word by wordWhen you see a thief, you befriend him, and throw in your lot with adulterers.
Read word by wordHe who commits adultery lacks judgment; whoever does so destroys himself.
Read word by wordThis is the way of an adulteress: She eats and wipes her mouth and says, ‘I have done nothing wrong.’
Read word by word“But come here, you sons of a sorceress, you offspring of adulterers and prostitutes!
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 wordIndifferent to her own infidelity, Israel had defiled the land and committed adultery with stones and trees.
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 wordWill you steal and murder, commit adultery and perjury, burn incense to Baal, and follow other gods that you have not known,
Read word by wordIf only I had a traveler’s lodge in the wilderness, I would abandon my people and depart from them, for they are all adulterers, a crowd of faithless people.
Read word by wordSource alternate reference: 9.1
For the land is full of adulterers—because of the curse, the land mourns and the pastures of the wilderness have dried up—their course is evil and their power is misused.
Read word by wordAnd among the prophets of Jerusalem I have seen a horrible thing: They commit adultery and walk in lies. They strengthen the hands of evildoers, so that no one turns his back on wickedness. They are all like Sodom to Me; the people of Jerusalem are like Gomorrah.”
Read word by wordFor they have committed an outrage in Israel by committing adultery with the wives of their neighbors and speaking lies in My name, which I did not command them to do. I am He who knows, and I am a witness, declares the LORD.”
Read word by wordYou adulterous wife! You receive strangers instead of your own husband!
Read word by wordAnd I will sentence you to the punishment of women who commit adultery and those who shed blood; so I will bring upon you the wrath of your bloodshed and jealousy.
Read word by wordFor they have committed adultery, and blood is on their hands. They have committed adultery with their idols. They have even sacrificed their children, whom they bore to Me, in the fire as food for their idols.
Read word by wordBut righteous men will sentence them to the punishment of those who commit adultery and bloodshed, because they are adulteresses with blood on their hands.
Read word by wordThen the LORD said to me, “Go show love to your wife again, though she is loved by another and is an adulteress. Love her as the LORD loves the Israelites, though they turn to other gods and love to offer raisin cakes to idols.”
Read word by wordCursing and lying, murder and stealing, and adultery are rampant; one act of bloodshed follows another.
Read word by wordThey 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.
Read word by wordI 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.
Read word by wordThey are all adulterers, like an oven heated by a baker who needs not stoke the fire from the kneading to the rising of the dough.
Read word by word“Then I will draw near to you for judgment. And I will be a swift witness against sorcerers and adulterers and perjurers, against oppressors of the widowed and fatherless, and against those who defraud laborers of their wages and deny justice to the foreigner but do not fear Me,” says the LORD of Hosts.
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