Word

זָנוּן

zânûwn · H2183 · Hebrew · 12 occurrences

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Meanings

fornication

Action by which humans engage in sexual activity that is considered immoral

Examples
Genesis 38:24 Now it was about three months later that Judah was informed, “Your daughter-in-law Tamar has prostituted herself, and behold, she is also pregnant by prostitution.” Then Judah said, “Bring her out and have her burned!”
Hosea 1:2 When the LORD first spoke through Hosea, the LORD said to Hosea, “Go, take for yourself a wife inclined to infidelity, and children of infidelity; for the land commits flagrant infidelity, abandoning the LORD.”
prostitution

Action by which humans engage in non-sanctioned worship, described in terms of fornication

Examples
2 Kings 9:22 When Joram saw Jehu, he said, “Is your intention peace, Jehu?” And he answered, “What ‘peace,’ so long as your mother Jezebel’s acts of prostitution and witchcraft are so many?”
Ezekiel 23:11 “Now her sister Oholibah saw this, yet she was more corrupt in her lust than she, and her obscene practices were more than the prostitution of her sister.
Ezekiel 23:29 ‘They will deal with you in hatred, take all your property, and leave you naked and bare. And the nakedness of your prostitution will be exposed, both your outrageous sin and your obscene practices.

How it’s used In 5 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

6 occurrences in 5 groups

הּher 2
זֹנוֹתto commit fornication 1
אָחוֹתsister 1
אִיזֶבֶלJezebel 1
ךְyour 1

Words describing itAdjectives, demonstratives, participles

1 occurrences in 1 groups

רַבmany, great 1

What is done to itIt is the object

1 occurrences in 1 groups

סוּרto turn aside, to depart, to remove 1

After prepositionsPrepositional phrases

4 occurrences in 4 groups

בin/on/with 2
מִןfrom 1
עַדto, as far as, until 1
לto/for 1

In phrases “… of it”It is the genitive

7 occurrences in 6 groups

רוּחַspirit, wind 2
בֵּןson 1
יֶלֶדchild, young man 1
עֶרְוָהnakedness 1
רֹבmultitude, abundance, numerous 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.

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.

In the other Testament 1 word

πορνεία porneía · G4202 · to engage in illicit sex, to commit fornication, sexual immorality: Greek πορνεία is the standard LXX rendering of Hebrew זָנוּן, both denoting sexual immorality (literal or figurative/idolatrous); the terms are direct translation equivalents across the Septuagint corpus.

Semantic domains 1 entry

Unfaithful002001002027: זָנוּן denotes whoredom or unfaithfulness, as Tamar's pregnancy by prostitution and Jezebel's many acts of prostitution and witchcraft are both described with this term.

Word family 4 words

Words formed from the same root. They share a form, not always a meaning.

זָנָה zânâh · H2181 · to commit fornication, to play the harlot, to cause to commit fornication · 60×תַּזְנוּת taznûwth · H8457 · promiscuity, debauchery, prostitution · 20×זָנוּןzânûwn · H2183זְנוּת zᵉnûwth · H2184 · fornication · 9×

Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon H2183. zenunim זְנוּנִים noun [masculine] fornication, plural abstract intensive (Ol§ 215…

H2183. zenunim
זְנוּנִים noun [masculine] fornication, plural abstract intensive (Ol§ 215 a; DlPr. 74, derived from √ זנן, Assyrian zanânu, fill full, compare Dlib.73) — ׳ז Hos 1:2 Hos 1:5t., construct זְנוּנֵי Nah 3:4 Nah 3:2t., זְנוּנַיִךְ Eze 23:29, זְנוּנֶיהָ Hos 2:4; Nah 3:4.
a., sexual Gen 38:24 (J) Hos 1:2 (twice in verse).
b. international Nah 3:4 (twice in verse).
c. religious 2Ki 9:22; Eze 23:11, Eze 23:29; Hos 2:4; Hos 2:6; Hos 4:12; Hos 5:4.

Brown, Driver and Briggs, A Hebrew and English Lexicon of the Old Testament (1906), public domain

Topical studies with this word 1 entry

Unfaithful12 occurrences

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

eRhema lexical overview, based on the UBS Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew and the UBS Dictionary of the Greek New Testament (© United Bible Societies, CC BY-SA 4.0) and Macula Hebrew and Greek (Clear Bible, CC BY 4.0); released under CC BY-SA 4.0