זְנוּת
zᵉnûwth · H2184 · Hebrew · 9 occurrences
Meanings
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fornication
Action by which humans engage in non-sanctioned worship, described in terms of fornication
ExamplesNumbers 14:33 ‘Also, your sons will be shepherds in the wilderness for forty years, and they will suffer for your unfaithfulness, until your bodies perish in the wilderness.
Jeremiah 3:2 “Raise your eyes to the bare heights and see; Where have you not been violated? You have sat for them by the roads Like an Arab in the desert, And you have defiled a land With your prostitution and your wickedness.
Jeremiah 3:9 “And because of the thoughtlessness of her prostitution, she defiled the land and committed adultery with stones and trees.
How it’s used In 6 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
7 occurrences in 4 groups
- ךְyour 3
- הֶםtheir 2
- הּher 1
- כֶםyour 1
What it doesIt is the subject
1 occurrences in 1 groups
- לָקַחto take, to receive 1
What is done to itIt is the object
2 occurrences in 2 groups
- נָשָׂאto lift up, to carry, to bear 1
- רָחַקto be far 1
What it is said to bePredicate
1 occurrences in 1 groups
- אֶפְרַיִםEphraim 1
After prepositionsPrepositional phrases
2 occurrences in 1 groups
- בin/on/with 3
In phrases “… of it”It is the genitive
2 occurrences in 2 groups
- זִמָּהlewdness, wickedness 1
- קוֹלvoice, sound 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 1 word
- נִאֻף niʼuph · H5004 · adultery
- Both terms denote sexual unfaithfulness; they may differ in nuance, whoredom being more general and adultery referring specifically to unfaithfulness within marriage.
In the other Testament 1 word
- πορνεία porneía · G4202 · to engage in illicit sex, to commit fornication, sexual immorality
- Greek πορνεία renders Hebrew זְנוּת as its standard LXX translation equivalent for the semantic field of sexual immorality/prostitution, carrying forward both literal and figurative (idolatry) senses already present in the Hebrew term.
Semantic domains 1 entry
- Unfaithful002001002027
- זְנוּת denotes whoredom, the unfaithfulness for which Israel's generation suffers in the wilderness and that Jeremiah likens to defiling the land.
Word family 4 words
Words formed from the same root. They share a form, not always a meaning.
Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon H2184. zenuth זְנוּת noun feminine abstract fornication; — ׳ז Hos 4:11; Hos 6:10; suffix…
זְנוּת noun feminine abstract fornication; — ׳ז Hos 4:11; Hos 6:10; suffix זְנוּתֵךְ Jer 13:27; Eze 23:27; זְנוּתָהּ Jer 3:9; זְנוּתָם Eze 43:7, Eze 43:9; זְנוּתַיִךְ Jer 3:2; זְנוּתֵיכֶם Num 14:38.
a. sexual Hos 4:11.
b. international Eze 23:27.
c. religious Num 14:33 (J) Jer 3:2, Jer 3:9; Jer 13:27; Eze 43:7, Eze 43:9; Hos 6:10 (where WeX1. Proph. suggests זָנִיתָ); compare זָנָה
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Brown, Driver and Briggs, A Hebrew and English Lexicon of the Old Testament (1906), public domain
Topical studies with this word 1 entry
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
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