נִאֻף
niʼuph · H5004 · Hebrew · 2 occurrences
Meanings
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adultery
Action by which married humans have voluntary sexual intercourse with other humans who are not their husband or wife; often used as a metaphor for idolatry
ExamplesJeremiah 13:27 “As for your adulteries and your lustful neighings, The outrageous sin of your prostitution On the hills in the field, I have seen your abominations. Woe to you, Jerusalem! How long will you remain unclean?”
Ezekiel 23:43 “Then I said concerning her who was worn out by adulteries, ‘Will they now commit adultery with her when she is like this?’
How it’s used In 1 role
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
1 occurrences in 1 groups
- ךְyour 1
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Near synonyms 2 words
- זְנוּת zᵉnûwth · H2184 · fornication
- Both words denote sexual unfaithfulness, though they may differ in nuance (whoredom more general, adultery specifically within marriage).
- תַּזְנוּת taznûwth · H8457 · promiscuity, debauchery, prostitution
- Both terms denote sexual unfaithfulness or immorality, overlapping as distinct Hebrew terms for similar sexual misconduct.
Semantic domains 1 entry
- Unfaithful002001002027
- נִאֻף denotes adultery as an act or condition, occurring in passages such as Jeremiah 13:27 listing Jerusalem's adulteries and lewdness, associating the word with sexual unfaithfulness.
Word family 3 words
Words formed from the same root. They share a form, not always a meaning.
Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon H5004. niuph [נִאֻף] noun [masculine] adultery; — only plural נִאֻפִים Eze 23:43 (but ᵑ6…
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
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