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H2181זָנָהza.nah

to fornicatePart of speech: Hebrew Verb

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Occurrences by book

  1. 3
  2. 3
  3. 9
  4. 2
  5. 3
  6. 4
  7. 6
  8. Ruth: 0
  9. 1 Samuel: 0
  10. 2 Samuel: 0
  11. 2
  12. 2 Kings: 0
  13. 1
  14. 3
  15. Ezra: 0
  16. Nehemiah: 0
  17. Esther: 0
  18. Job: 0
  19. 2
  20. 4
  21. Ecclesiastes: 0
  22. Song of Songs: 0
  23. 5
  24. 6
  25. Lamentations: 0
  26. 22
  27. Daniel: 0
  28. 14
  29. 1
  30. 1
  31. Obadiah: 0
  32. Jonah: 0
  33. 2
  34. 1
  35. Habakkuk: 0
  36. Zephaniah: 0
  37. Haggai: 0
  38. Zechariah: 0
  39. Malachi: 0

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94 occurrences in 83 verses

With their references and text in Bible in Basic English.

  1. Ezekiel 16:15

    But you put your faith in the fact that you were beautiful, acting like a loose woman because you were widely talked of, and offering your cheap love to everyone who went by, whoever it might be.

    וַתִּזְנִ֖י (תִּזְנִ֖י) tiz.Ni “you acted as a prostitute”

  2. Ezekiel 16:16

    And you took your robes and made high places for yourself ornamented with every colour, acting like a loose woman on them, without shame or fear.

    וַתִּזְנִ֖י (תִּזְנִ֖י) tiz.Ni “you acted as a prostitute”

  3. Ezekiel 16:17

    And you took the fair jewels, my silver and gold which I had given to you, and made for yourself male images, acting like a loose woman with them;

    וַתִּזְנִי־ (תִּזְנִי) tiz.ni- “you acted as a prostitute”

  4. Ezekiel 16:26

    And you went with the Egyptians, your neighbours, great of flesh; increasing your loose ways, moving me to wrath.

    וַתִּזְנִ֧י (תִּזְנִ֧י) tiz.Ni “you acted as a prostitute”

  5. Ezekiel 16:28

    And you went with the Assyrians, because of your desire which was without measure; you were acting like a loose woman with them, and still you had not enough.

    וַתִּזְנִי֙ (תִּזְנִי֙) tiz.Ni “you acted as a prostitute”וַתִּזְנִ֕ים (תִּזְנִ֕י) tiz.Ni “you acted as a prostitute with”

  6. Ezekiel 16:30

    How feeble is your heart, says the Lord, seeing that you do all these things, the work of a loose and overruling woman;

    זוֹנָ֖ה zo.Nah “a prostitute”

  7. Ezekiel 16:31

    For you have made your arched room at the top of every street, and your high place in every open place; though you were not like a loose woman in getting together your payment.

    כַּזּוֹנָ֖ה (זּוֹנָ֖ה) zo.Nah “prostitute”

  8. Ezekiel 16:33

    They give payment to all loose women: but you give rewards to your lovers, offering them payment so that they may come to you on every side for your cheap love.

    זֹנ֖וֹת zo.Not “prostitutes”

  9. Ezekiel 16:34

    And in your loose behaviour you are different from other women, for no one goes after you to make love to you: and because you give payment and no payment is given to you, in this you are different from them.

    זוּנָּ֑ה zu.Nah “it was approached for prostitution”

  10. Ezekiel 16:35

    For this cause, O loose woman, give ear to the voice of the Lord:

    זוֹנָ֔ה zo.Nah “O prostitute”

  11. Ezekiel 16:41

    And they will have you burned with fire, sending punishments on you before the eyes of great numbers of women; and I will put an end to your loose ways, and you will no longer give payment.

    מִזּוֹנָ֔ה (זּוֹנָ֔ה) zo.Nah “a prostitute”

  12. Ezekiel 20:30

    For this cause say to the children of Israel, This is what the Lord has said: Are you making yourselves unclean as your fathers did? are you being untrue to me by going after their disgusting works?

    זֹנִֽים׃ zo.Nim “acting as prostitutes”

  13. Ezekiel 23:3

    They were acting like loose women in Egypt; when they were young their behaviour was loose: there their breasts were crushed, even the points of their young breasts were crushed.

    וַתִּזְנֶ֣ינָה (תִּזְנֶ֣ינָה) tiz.Nei.nah “they acted as prostitutes”זָנ֑וּ za.Nu “they acted as prostitutes”

  14. Ezekiel 23:5

    And Oholah was untrue to me when she was mine; she was full of desire for her lovers, even for the Assyrians, her neighbours,

    וַתִּ֥זֶן (תִּ֥זֶן) Ti.zen “she acted as a prostitute”

  15. Ezekiel 23:19

    But still she went on the more with her loose behaviour, keeping in mind the early days when she had been a loose woman in the land of Egypt.

    זָנְתָ֖ה za.ne.Tah “she acted as a prostitute”

  16. Ezekiel 23:30

    They will do these things to you because you have been untrue to me, and have gone after the nations, and have become unclean with their images.

    בִּזְנוֹתֵךְ֙ (זְנוֹתֵ) z.no.te “acted as a prostitute”

  17. Ezekiel 23:43

    Then I said ... now she will go on with her loose ways.

    יִזְנ֥וּ yiz.nuh “they will act as a prostitutes”

  18. Ezekiel 23:44

    And they went in to her, as men go to a loose woman: so they went in to Oholibah, the loose woman.

    זוֹנָ֑ה zo.Nah “a prostitute”

  19. Hosea 1:2

    The start of the word of the Lord by Hosea: And the Lord said to Hosea, Go, take for yourself a wife of loose ways, and children of the same, for the land has been untrue to the Lord.

    זָנֹ֤ה za.Noh “continually <prostitute itself>”תִזְנֶה֙ tiz.Neh “it prostitutes itself”

  20. Hosea 2:5

    For their mother has been untrue; she who gave them birth has done things of shame, for she said, I will go after my lovers, who give me my bread and my water, my wool and my linen, my oil and my wine.

    זָֽנְתָה֙ za.ne.Tah “she has prostituted herself”

  21. Hosea 3:3

    And I said to her, You are to be mine for a long space of time; you are not to be false to me, and no other man is to have you for his wife; and so will I be to you.

    תִזְנִ֔י tiz.Ni “you must prostitute yourself”

  22. Hosea 4:10

    They will have food, but they will not be full; they will be false to me, but they will not be increased, because they no longer give thought to the Lord.

    הִזְנ֖וּ hiz.Nu “they will prostitute themselves”

  23. Hosea 4:12

    My people get knowledge from their tree, and their rod gives them news; for a false spirit is the cause of their wandering, and they have been false to their God.

    וַיִּזְנ֖וּ (יִּזְנ֖וּ) i.yiz.Nu “they have prostituted themselves”

  24. Hosea 4:13

    They make offerings on the tops of mountains, burning perfumes in high places, under trees of every sort, because their shade is good: and so your daughters are given up to loose ways and your brides are false to their husbands.

    תִּזְנֶ֙ינָה֙ tiz.Nei.nah “they prostitute themselves”

  25. Hosea 4:14

    I will not give punishment to your daughters or your brides for their evil behaviour; for they make themselves separate with loose women, and make offerings with those who are used for sex purposes in the worship of the gods: the people who have no wisdo

    תִזְנֶ֗ינָה tiz.Nei.nah “they prostitute themselves”הַזֹּנ֣וֹת (זֹּנ֣וֹת) zo.Not “prostitutes”