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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 Young's Literal Translation.

  1. Genesis 34:31

    And they say, `As a harlot doth he make our sister?'

    הַכְזוֹנָ֕ה (זוֹנָ֕ה) zo.Nah “a prostitute”

  2. Genesis 38:15

    And Judah seeth her, and reckoneth her for a harlot, for she hath covered her face,

    לְזוֹנָ֑ה (זוֹנָ֑ה) zo.Nah “a prostitute”

  3. Genesis 38:24

    And it cometh to pass about three months `after', that it is declared to Judah, saying, `Tamar thy daughter-in-law hath committed fornication; and also, lo, she hath conceived by fornication:' and Judah saith, `Bring her out -- and she is burnt.'

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

  4. Exodus 34:15

    `Lest thou make a covenant with the inhabitant of the land, and they have gone a-whoring after their gods, and have sacrificed to their gods, and `one' hath called to thee, and thou hast eaten of his sacrifice,

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

  5. Exodus 34:16

    and thou hast taken of their daughters to thy sons, and their daughters have gone a-whoring after their gods, and have caused thy sons to go a-whoring after their gods;

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

  6. Leviticus 17:7

    and they sacrifice not any more their sacrifices to goats after which they are going a-whoring; a statute age-during is this to them, to their generations.

    זֹנִ֖ים zo.Nim “[are] prostituting themselves”

  7. Leviticus 19:29

    `Thou dost not pollute thy daughter to cause her to go a-whoring, that the land go not a-whoring, and the land hath been full of wickedness.

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

  8. Leviticus 20:5

    then I have set My face against that man, and against his family, and have cut him off, and all who are going a-whoring after him, even going a-whoring after the Molech, from the midst of their people.

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

  9. Leviticus 20:6

    `And the person who turneth unto those having familiar spirits, and unto the wizards, to go a-whoring after them, I have even set My face against that person, and cut him off from the midst of his people.

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

  10. Leviticus 21:7

    `A woman, a harlot, or polluted, they do not take, and a woman cast out from her husband they do not take, for he `is' holy to his God;

    זֹנָ֤ה zo.Nah “a prostitute”

  11. Leviticus 21:9

    `And a daughter of any priest when she polluteth herself by going a-whoring -- her father she is polluting; with fire she is burnt.

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

  12. Leviticus 21:14

    widow, or cast out, or polluted one -- a harlot -- these he doth not take, but a virgin of his own people he doth take `for' a wife,

    זֹנָ֔ה zo.Nah “a prostitute”

  13. Numbers 15:39

    and it hath been to you for a fringe, and ye have seen it, and have remembered all the commands of Jehovah, and have done them, and ye search not after your heart, and after your eyes, after which ye are going a-whoring;

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

  14. Numbers 25:1

    And Israel dwelleth in Shittim, and the people begin to go a-whoring unto daughters of Moab,

    לִזְנ֖וֹת (זְנ֖וֹת) z.Not “commit fornication”

  15. Deuteronomy 22:21

    then they have brought out the damsel unto the opening of her father's house, and stoned her have the men of her city with stones, and she hath died, for she hath done folly in Israel, to go a-whoring `in' her father's house; and thou hast put away the evil thing out of thy midst.

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

  16. Deuteronomy 23:18

    thou dost not bring a gift of a whore, or a price of a dog, into the house of Jehovah thy God, for any vow; for the abomination of Jehovah thy God `are' even both of them.

    זוֹנָ֜ה zo.Nah “a prostitute”

  17. Deuteronomy 31:16

    And Jehovah saith unto Moses, `Lo, thou art lying down with thy fathers, and this people hath risen, and gone a-whoring after the gods of the stranger of the land into the midst of which it hath entered, and forsaken Me, and broken My covenant which I made with it;

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

  18. Joshua 2:1

    And Joshua son of Nun sendeth from Shittim, two men, spies, silently, saying, `Go, see the land -- and Jericho;' and they go and come into the house of a woman, a harlot, and her name `is' Rahab, and they lie down there.

    זוֹנָ֛ה zo.Nah “a prostitute”

  19. Joshua 6:17

    and the city hath been devoted, it and all that `is' in it, to Jehovah; only Rahab the harlot doth live, she and all who `are' with her in the house, for she hid the messengers whom we sent;

    הַזּוֹנָ֜ה (זּוֹנָ֜ה) zo.Nah “prostitute”

  20. Joshua 6:22

    And to the two men who are spying the land Joshua said, `Go into the house of the woman, the harlot, and bring out thence the woman, and all whom she hath, as ye have sworn to her.'

    הַזּוֹנָ֑ה (זּוֹנָ֑ה) zo.Nah “prostitute”

  21. Joshua 6:25

    and Rahab the harlot, and the house of her father, and all whom she hath, hath Joshua kept alive; and she dwelleth in the midst of Israel unto this day, for she hid the messengers whom Joshua sent to spy out Jericho.

    הַ֠זּוֹנָה (זּוֹנָה) zo.nah “prostitute”

  22. Judges 2:17

    and also unto their judges they have not hearkened, but have gone a-whoring after other gods, and bow themselves to them; they have turned aside `with' haste out of the way `in' which their fathers walked to obey the commands of Jehovah -- they have not done so.

    זָנ֗וּ za.Nu “they acted as prostitutes”

  23. Judges 8:27

    and Gideon maketh it into an ephod, and setteth it up in his city, in Ophrah, and all Israel go a-whoring after it there, and it is to Gideon and to his house for a snare.

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

  24. Judges 8:33

    And it cometh to pass, when Gideon `is' dead, that the sons of Israel turn back and go a-whoring after the Baalim, and set over them Baal-Berith for a god;

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

  25. Judges 11:1

    And Jephthah the Gileadite hath been a mighty man of valour, and he `is' son of a woman, a harlot; and Gilead begetteth Jephthah,

    זוֹנָ֑ה zo.Nah “a prostitute”