Word

תַּזְנוּת

taznûwth · H8457 · Hebrew · 20 occurrences

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Meanings

promiscuity, debauchery, prostitution, harlotry, whoring, fornication

Action by which humans engage in sexual activity that is considered immoral; used exclusively as a metaphor for unfaithfulness to God by worshiping idols

Examples
Ezekiel 16:15 “But you trusted in your beauty and became unfaithful because of your fame, and you poured out your obscene practices on every passer-by to whom it might be tempting.
Ezekiel 16:20 “Furthermore, you took your sons and daughters whom you had borne to Me and sacrificed them to idols to be devoured. Were your obscene practices a trivial matter?
Ezekiel 16:22 “And besides all your abominations and obscene practices, you did not remember the days of your youth, when you were naked and bare and squirming in your blood.

How it’s used In 4 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

20 occurrences in 3 groups

ךְyour 11
הּher 7
הֶםtheir 2

What it doesIt is the subject

1 occurrences in 1 groups

גָּלָהto uncover, to reveal, to go into exile 1

What is done to itIt is the object

11 occurrences in 7 groups

רָבָהto increase 4
שָׁפַךְto pour out, to shed 2
גָּלָהto uncover, to reveal, to go into exile 1
זָנָהto commit fornication, to play the harlot 1
נָשָׂאto lift up, to carry, to bear 1
נָתַןto give, to put, to set 1

After prepositionsPrepositional phrases

6 occurrences in 3 groups

בin/on/with 8
אֵלto, toward 2
מִןfrom 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 lexemes denote sexual unfaithfulness or immorality and are near-synonyms in Hebrew, overlapping in semantic space as distinct terms for similar sexual misconduct.

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 תַּזְנוּת, both denoting sexual immorality (literal fornication/harlotry) and its extension to covenant unfaithfulness/idolatry; the terms function as direct translation equivalents across the literal and metaphorical registers.

Semantic domains 1 entry

Unfaithful002001002027: This noun denotes sexual unfaithfulness, as in Ezekiel 16:15's condemnation of trusting in one's beauty and becoming unfaithful through obscene practices.

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×תַּזְנוּתtaznûwth · H8457זָנוּן zânûwn · H2183 · fornication, prostitution · 12×זְנוּת zᵉnûwth · H2184 · fornication · 9×

Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon H8457. taznuth [תַּזְנוּת] noun feminine abstract fornication: — suffix תַּזְנוּתֵךְ Eze…

H8457. taznuth
[תַּזְנוּת] noun feminine abstract fornication: — suffix תַּזְנוּתֵךְ Eze 16:20 (Kt) Eze 16:25 (Kt) Eze 16:29; תַּזְנֻתֵךְ Eze 16:26; תַּזְנוּתָם Eze 23:8, Eze 23:17; תַּזְנוּתַיִךְ Eze 16:15, Eze 16:34, Eze 16:36; תַּזְנֻתַיִךְ Eze 16:22; תַּזְנוּתָ֑יִךְ Eze 16:20 (Qr) Eze 16:25 (Qr) Eze 16:33; Eze 23:29, Eze 23:35; תַּזְנוּתֶיהָ Eze 23:7-8, Eze 23:11, Eze 23:14, Eze 23:18, Eze 23:19, Eze 23:43. These are all international mingled with religious references.

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

Topical studies with this word 1 entry

Unfaithful20 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