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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 World English Bible.

  1. Genesis 34:31

    They said, "Should he deal with our sister as with a prostitute?"

    הַכְזוֹנָ֕ה (זוֹנָ֕ה) zo.Nah “a prostitute”

  2. Genesis 38:15

    When Judah saw her, he thought that she was a prostitute, for she had covered her face.

    לְזוֹנָ֑ה (זוֹנָ֑ה) zo.Nah “a prostitute”

  3. Genesis 38:24

    It happened about three months later, that it was told Judah, saying, "Tamar, your daughter-in-law, has played the prostitute; and moreover, behold, she is with child by prostitution." Judah said, "Bring her forth, and let her be burnt."

    זָֽנְתָה֙ za.ne.Tah “she has acted as a prostitute”

  4. Exodus 34:15

    Don't make a covenant with the inhabitants of the land, lest they play the prostitute after their gods, and sacrifice to their gods, and one call you and you eat of his sacrifice;

    וְזָנ֣וּ׀ (זָנ֣וּ) za.Nu “they will prostitute themselves”

  5. Exodus 34:16

    and you take of their daughters to your sons, and their daughters play the prostitute after their gods, and make your sons play the prostitute after their gods.

    וְזָנ֣וּ (זָנ֣וּ) za.Nu “they will prostitute themselves”וְהִזְנוּ֙ (הִזְנוּ֙) hiz.Nu “they will make prostitute [themselves]”

  6. Leviticus 17:7

    They shall no more sacrifice their sacrifices to the goat idols, after which they play the prostitute. This shall be a statute forever to them throughout their generations.'

    זֹנִ֖ים zo.Nim “[are] prostituting themselves”

  7. Leviticus 19:29

    Don't profane your daughter, to make her a prostitute; lest the land fall to prostitution, and the land become full of wickedness.

    לְהַזְנוֹתָ֑הּ (הַזְנוֹתָ֑) haz.no.Ta “making prostitute [herself]”תִזְנֶ֣ה tiz.Neh “it will prostitute itself”

  8. Leviticus 20:5

    then I will set my face against that man, and against his family, and will cut him off, and all who play the prostitute after him, to play the prostitute with Molech, from among their people.

    הַזֹּנִ֣ים (זֹּנִ֣ים) zo.Nim “[who] act as prostitutes”לִזְנ֛וֹת (זְנ֛וֹת) z.Not “acting as prostitutes”

  9. Leviticus 20:6

    "'The person that turns to those who are mediums, and to the wizards, to play the prostitute after them, I will even set my face against that person, and will cut him off from among his people.

    לִזְנ֖וֹת (זְנ֖וֹת) z.Not “act as a prostitute”

  10. Leviticus 21:7

    "'They shall not marry a woman who is a prostitute, or profane; neither shall they marry a woman divorced from her husband: for he is holy to his God.

    זֹנָ֤ה zo.Nah “a prostitute”

  11. Leviticus 21:9

    "'The daughter of any priest, if she profanes herself by playing the prostitute, she profanes her father: she shall be burned with fire.

    לִזְנ֑וֹת (זְנ֑וֹת) z.Not “acting as a prostitute”

  12. Leviticus 21:14

    A widow, or one divorced, or a woman who has been defiled, or a prostitute, these he shall not marry: but a virgin of his own people shall he take as a wife.

    זֹנָ֔ה zo.Nah “a prostitute”

  13. Numbers 15:39

    and it shall be to you for a fringe, that you may look on it, and remember all the commandments of Yahweh, and do them; and that you not follow after your own heart and your own eyes, after which you use to play the prostitute;

    זֹנִ֖ים zo.Nim “[are] acting as prostitutes”

  14. Numbers 25:1

    Israel abode in Shittim; and the people began to play the prostitute with the daughters of Moab:

    לִזְנ֖וֹת (זְנ֖וֹת) z.Not “commit fornication”

  15. Deuteronomy 22:21

    then they shall bring out the young lady to the door of her father's house, and the men of her city shall stone her to death with stones, because she has done folly in Israel, to play the prostitute in her father's house: so shall you put away the evil from the midst of you.

    לִזְנ֖וֹת (זְנ֖וֹת) z.Not “acting as a prostitute”

  16. Deuteronomy 23:18

    You shall not bring the hire of a prostitute, or the wages of a dog, into the house of Yahweh your God for any vow: for even both these are an abomination to Yahweh your God.

    זוֹנָ֜ה zo.Nah “a prostitute”

  17. Deuteronomy 31:16

    Yahweh said to Moses, Behold, you shall sleep with your fathers; and this people will rise up, and play the prostitute after the strange gods of the land, where they go to be among them, and will forsake me, and break my covenant which I have made with them.

    וְזָנָ֣ה׀ (זָנָ֣ה) za.Nah “it will act as a prostitute”

  18. Joshua 2:1

    Joshua the son of Nun sent out of Shittim two men as spies secretly, saying, Go, view the land, and Jericho. They went and came into the house of a prostitute whose name was Rahab, and lay there.

    זוֹנָ֛ה zo.Nah “a prostitute”

  19. Joshua 6:17

    The city shall be devoted, even it and all that is therein, to Yahweh: only Rahab the prostitute shall live, she and all who are with her in the house, because she hid the messengers that we sent.

    הַזּוֹנָ֜ה (זּוֹנָ֜ה) zo.Nah “prostitute”

  20. Joshua 6:22

    Joshua said to the two men who had spied out the land, Go into the prostitute's house, and bring out there the woman, and all that she has, as you swore to her.

    הַזּוֹנָ֑ה (זּוֹנָ֑ה) zo.Nah “prostitute”

  21. Joshua 6:25

    But Rahab the prostitute, and her father's household, and all that she had, did Joshua save alive; and she lived in the midst of Israel to this day, because she hid the messengers, whom Joshua sent to spy out Jericho.

    הַ֠זּוֹנָה (זּוֹנָה) zo.nah “prostitute”

  22. Judges 2:17

    Yet they didn't listen to their judges; for they played the prostitute after other gods, and bowed themselves down to them: they turned aside quickly out of the way in which their fathers walked, obeying the commandments of Yahweh; [supplied: but] they didn't do so.

    זָנ֗וּ za.Nu “they acted as prostitutes”

  23. Judges 8:27

    Gideon made an ephod of it, and put it in his city, even in Ophrah: and all Israel played the prostitute after it there; and it became a snare to Gideon, and to his house.

    וַיִּזְנ֧וּ (יִּזְנ֧וּ) i.yiz.Nu “they acted as prostitutes”

  24. Judges 8:33

    It happened, as soon as Gideon was dead, that the children of Israel turned again, and played the prostitute after the Baals, and made Baal Berith their god.

    וַיִּזְנ֖וּ (יִּזְנ֖וּ) i.yiz.Nu “they acted as prostitutes”

  25. Judges 11:1

    Now Jephthah the Gileadite was a mighty man of valor, and he was the son of a prostitute: and Gilead became the father of Jephthah.

    זוֹנָ֑ה zo.Nah “a prostitute”