זִמָּה
zimmâh · H2154 · Hebrew · 29 occurrences
Meanings
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plan
A project or scheme as conceived in the heart or mind, which can be either bad or good
ExamplesJob 17:11 “My days are past, my plans are torn apart, The wishes of my heart.
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depravity, wickedness, evil, wantonness
Literally: plan; hence: a state of moral and ethical corruption, starting with evil plans and resulting in depraved practices, regarded as foolishness
ExamplesLeviticus 18:17 ‘You shall not uncover the nakedness of a woman and of her daughter, nor shall you take her son’s daughter or her daughter’s daughter, to uncover her nakedness; they are blood relatives. It is an outrageous sin.
Leviticus 19:29 ‘Do not profane your daughter by making her a prostitute, so that the land does not fall into prostitution, and the land does not become full of outrageous sin.
Leviticus 20:14 ‘If there is a man who marries a woman and her mother, it is an outrageous sin; both he and they shall be burned with fire, so that there will be no such outrageous sin in your midst.
How it’s used In 8 roles
Every occurrence, grouped by the words it is grammatically related to.
the word studied the word it goes with
Whose, or of whatGenitive or possessive
10 occurrences in 6 groups
- ךְyour 4
- כֶןyour 2
- אִוֶּלֶתfolly 1
- זְנוּתfornication 1
- נָעוּרyouth 1
- יmy 1
Named alongside itApposition
1 occurrences in 1 groups
- דֶּרֶךְway, road 1
What it doesIt is the subject
3 occurrences in 3 groups
- גָּלָהto uncover, to reveal, to go into exile 1
- הָיָהto be, to become 1
- נָתַקto break, to tear off 1
What is done to itIt is the object
11 occurrences in 6 groups
- עָשָׂהto do, to make 5
- שָׁבַתto cease, to rest, to put an end 2
- יָעַץto counsel, to advise, to plan 1
- נָשָׂאto lift up, to carry, to bear 1
- נָתַןto give, to put, to set 1
- פָּקַדto number, to punish 1
What it is said to bePredicate
3 occurrences in 3 groups
- חַטָּאָהsin, sin offering 1
- טֻמְאָהuncleanness 1
- יָדhand, power 1
What is said to be itIt is the predicate
3 occurrences in 1 groups
- הוּאhe, she, it 3
After prepositionsPrepositional phrases
3 occurrences in 2 groups
- בin/on/with 4
- כlike/as 2
In phrases “… of it”It is the genitive
2 occurrences in 2 groups
- רָדַףto pursue, to chase 1
- אִשָּׁהwoman, wife 1
When two words share a role, as in “Paul and Barnabas said”, the verse appears under each, so a section’s counts can add up to more than the number of occurrences.
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Near synonyms 2 words
- רֶשַׁע reshaʻ · H7562 · wicked deeds, wickedness
- Both denote wickedness or sin—זִמָּה (zimmâh, H2154) heinous crime, lewdness, or a wicked device, רֶשַׁע (reshaʻ, H7562) iniquity or wickedness—overlapping within the same field of moral evil.
- רִשְׁעָה rishʻâh · H7564 · wicked deeds, wickedness
- Both are abstract nouns for wickedness or sinfulness, overlapping in describing the same moral evil or wrongdoing.
In the other Testament 2 words
- ἀνομία anomía · G458 · to live lawlessly, lawlessness, lawless living
- Greek ἀνομία (anomía, G458) renders Hebrew זִמָּה (zimmâh, H2154) in LXX contexts where the heinous crime or lewdness in view is framed specifically as lawlessness or violation of divine law, narrowing from זִמָּה (zimmâh, H2154)'s broader semantic range of wickedness/lewdness to the legal-violation register that ἀνομία's core meaning emphasizes.
- ἀσέβεια asébeia · G763 · to live in an ungodly manner, godlessness
- ἀσέβεια (asébeia, G763) ἀσέβεια captures the impiety/wickedness aspect of זִמָּה (zimmâh, H2154) זִמָּה but lacks the sexual-lewdness connotation central to many זִמָּה (zimmâh, H2154) contexts (Leviticus 18:17, 19:29, etc.); the Greek term is broader 'ungodliness' while the Hebrew emphasizes sexually deviant schemes or acts as a specific type of wickedness.
Semantic domains 3 entries
- Think002004002013
- This entry carries no independently attested think/plan sense of its own distinct from its core moral-outrage sense; the domain is bundle-shared. The genuine sense is covered under the sin bullet below.
- Sin002003003018
- זִמָּה denotes a heinous or outrageous sin, especially of a sexual nature, as at Leviticus 18:17 — "they are blood relatives. It is an outrageous sin" — and Leviticus 20:14 — "it is an outrageous sin."
- Names of People003001007
- This entry carries no personal-name sense of its own; the domain is bundle-shared with the distinct, identically-spelled personal name Zimmah (זִמָּה (Zimmâh, H2155)) and does not reflect an independent attested usage of this abstract noun as a name for a person. See זִמָּה (Zimmâh, H2155).
Word family 4 words
Words formed from the same root. They share a form, not always a meaning.
Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon H2154. zimmah I. זִמָּה noun feminine plan, device, wickedness — absolute ׳ז Lev 18:17…
I. זִמָּה noun feminine plan, device, wickedness — absolute ׳ז Lev 18:17 Lev 18:17t.; construct זִמַּת Pro 24:9 Pro 24:2t.; suffix זִמָּתֵךְ Eze 16:58 + 3t.; זִמַּתְכֶ֫נָֿה Eze 23:48-49, plural זמּוֺת Isa 32:7, suffix זִמֹּתַי Job 17:11; —
1 plan, purpose Job 17:3; elsewhere always
2 in bad sense:
a. evil device Isa 32:7 (with יעִץ, followed by לְחַבֵּל); אִוֶּלֶת זִמַּת Pro 24:9; compare Psa 26:10 (|| שֹׁחַד), Psa 119:150.
b. wickedness in act ז ׳עשׂה Hos 6:9 (where murder in context), Pro 10:23; Pro 21:27 compare Now. Especially
c. of unchastity: incest Lev 18:17; Lev 20:14 (twice in verse), licentiousness Lev 19:29 (all H), Jdg 20:6 (|| נְבָלָה), adultery Job 31:11; frequently (mostly Ezekiel) metaphor of idolatry of people under figure of harlotry and adultery Jer 13:27 (זְנוּתֵךְ זִמַּת), Eze 16:27 (זִמָּה דַּרְכֵךְ), Eze 16:43; Eze 16:58 (both || תּוֺעֵבָה), Eze 22:9 (with עשׂה), Eze 22:11 (בְּזִמָּה טִמֵּא, || תועבה), Eze 23:21, Eze 23:27 (|| זְנוּתֵךְ), Eze 23:29 (וְתַזְנוּתָ֑יִךְ וְזִמָּתֵךְ זְנוּנַיִךְ עֶרְוַת), Eze 23:35 (|| תַּזְנוּתָ֑יִךְ), Eze 23:44 (הַזּ ׳אִשּׁוֺת, Co ז ׳לעשׂות), Eze 23:48; Eze 23:48; Eze 23:49 (|| גִלּוּלֵיכֶן חֲטָאֵי), Eze 24:13. [In Eze 16:27, Eze 16:43; Eze 24:13 strike out Co, chiefly on internal grounds.]
Brown, Driver and Briggs, A Hebrew and English Lexicon of the Old Testament (1906), public domain
Topical studies with this word 3 entries
Meanings adapted from the UBS Dictionary of the Greek New Testament, © United Bible Societies, CC BY-SA 4.0 and the UBS Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew (from the Semantic Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew), © United Bible Societies, CC BY-SA 4.0; MACULA Greek Linguistic Datasets, available at https://github.com/Clear-Bible/macula-greek/, licensed CC BY 4.0; MACULA Hebrew Linguistic Datasets © 2022-2024 by Biblica, Inc., CC BY 4.0. Westminster Leningrad Codex (tanach.us). OpenScriptures Hebrew Bible morphology (hb.openscriptures.org), CC BY 4.0.
Sources
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