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זָנָה

za.nahto fornicateHow to read Hebrew
hebrewOld TestamentVerb94 occurrences20 books83 verses

Definition

a primitive root [highly fed and therefore wanton]; to commit adultery (usually of the female, and less often of simple fornication, rarely of involuntary ravishment); figuratively, to commit idolatry (the Jewish people being regarded as the spouse of Jehovah)
Traditional renderings: (cause to) commit fornication, × continually, × great, (be an, play the) harlot, (cause to be, play the) whore, (commit, fall to) whoredom, (cause to) go a-whoring, whorish.

In the Greek Old Testament

How the ancient Greek translation of the Old Testament renders זָנָה:

Usage patterns

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Occurrences

94 total
  1. Jeremiah 3:6וַתִּזְנִי־ · to prostitute herself
    Now in the days of King Josiah, the LORD said to me, “Have you seen what faithless Israel has done? She has gone up on every high hill and under every green tree to prostitute herself there.
  2. Jeremiah 3:8וַתִּ֥זֶן · and prostituted herself
    She saw that because faithless Israel had committed adultery, I gave her a certificate of divorce and sent her away. Yet that unfaithful sister Judah had no fear and prostituted herself as well.
  3. Jeremiah 5:7זוֹנָ֖ה · of prostitutes
    “Why should I forgive you? Your children have forsaken Me and sworn by gods that are not gods. I satisfied their needs, yet they committed adultery and assembled at the houses of prostitutes.
  4. Ezekiel 6:9הַזּוֹנֶ֗ה · by their adulterous; הַזֹּנ֕וֹת · that lusted
    Then in the nations to which they have been carried captive, your survivors will remember Me—how I have been grieved by their adulterous hearts that turned away from Me, and by their eyes that lusted after idols. So they will loathe themselves for the evil they have done and for all their abominations.
  5. Ezekiel 16:15וַתִּזְנִ֖י · and played the harlot
    But because of your fame, you trusted in your beauty and played the harlot. You lavished your favors on everyone who passed by, and your beauty was theirs for the asking.
  6. Ezekiel 16:16וַתִּזְנִ֖י · you prostituted yourself
    You took some of your garments and made colorful high places for yourself, and on them you prostituted yourself. Such things should not have happened; never should they have occurred!
  7. Ezekiel 16:17וַתִּזְנִי־ · to prostitute yourself
    You also took the fine jewelry of gold and silver I had given you, and you made male idols with which to prostitute yourself.
  8. Ezekiel 16:26וַתִּזְנִ֧י · You prostituted yourself
    You prostituted yourself with your lustful neighbors, the Egyptians, and increased your promiscuity to provoke Me to anger.
  9. Ezekiel 16:28וַתִּזְנִי֙ · Then you prostituted yourself; וַתִּזְנִ֕ים · Even after [that]
    Then you prostituted yourself with the Assyrians, because you were not yet satisfied. Even after that, you were still not satisfied.
  10. Ezekiel 16:30זוֹנָ֖ה · prostitute
    How weak-willed is your heart, declares the Lord GOD, while you do all these things, the acts of a shameless prostitute!
  11. Ezekiel 16:31כַּזּוֹנָ֖ה · a prostitute
    But when you built your mounds at the head of every street and made your lofty shrines in every public square, you were not even like a prostitute, because you scorned payment.
  12. Ezekiel 16:33זֹנ֖וֹת · [their] prostitutes
    Men give gifts to all their prostitutes, but you gave gifts to all your lovers. You bribed them to come to you from everywhere for your illicit favors.
  13. Ezekiel 16:34זוּנָּ֑ה · your favors
    So your prostitution is the opposite of that of other women: No one solicited your favors, and you paid a fee instead of receiving one; so you are the very opposite!
  14. Ezekiel 16:35זוֹנָ֔ה · O prostitute
    Therefore, O prostitute, hear the word of the LORD!
  15. Ezekiel 16:41מִזּוֹנָ֔ה · to your prostitution
    Then they will burn down your houses and execute judgment against you in the sight of many women. I will put an end to your prostitution, and you will never again pay your lovers.
  16. Ezekiel 20:30זֹנִֽים׃ · prostituting
    Therefore tell the house of Israel that this is what the Lord GOD says: Will you defile yourselves the way your fathers did, prostituting yourselves with their abominations?
  17. Ezekiel 23:3וַתִּזְנֶ֣ינָה · and they played; זָנ֑וּ · prostituting themselves
    …and they played in Egypt, prostituting themselves from their youth. Their breasts were fondled there, and their virgin bosoms caressed.
  18. Ezekiel 23:5וַתִּ֥זֶן · prostituted herself
    Oholah prostituted herself while she was still Mine. She lusted after her lovers, the Assyrians—warriors
  19. Ezekiel 23:19זָנְתָ֖ה · she had prostituted herself
    Yet she multiplied her promiscuity, remembering the days of her youth, when she had prostituted herself in the land of Egypt
  20. Ezekiel 23:30בִּזְנוֹתֵךְ֙ · because you have prostituted yourself
    …have brought these things upon you, because you have prostituted yourself with the nations and defiled yourself with their idols.
  21. Ezekiel 23:43יִזְנֻה · let them use her as a prostitute
    Then I said of her who had grown old in adulteries: ‘Now let them use her as a prostitute, for that is all she is!’
  22. Ezekiel 23:44זוֹנָ֑ה
    And they slept with her as with a prostitute; they slept with Oholah and Oholibah, those lewd women.
  23. Hosea 1:2זָנֹ֤ה · is flagrantly prostituting itself; תִזְנֶה֙
    When the LORD first spoke through Hosea, He told him, “Go, take a prostitute as your wife and have children of adultery, because this land is flagrantly prostituting itself by departing from the LORD.”
  24. Hosea 2:5זָֽנְתָה֙ · has played the harlot
    For their mother has played the harlot and has conceived them in disgrace. For she thought, ‘I will go after my lovers, who give me bread and water, wool and linen, oil and drink.’
  25. Hosea 3:3תִזְנִ֔י · be promiscuous
    Then I said to her, “You must live with me for many days; you must not be promiscuous or belong to another, and I will do the same for you.”
  26. Hosea 4:10הִזְנ֖וּ · they will be promiscuous
    They will eat but not be satisfied; they will be promiscuous but not multiply. For they have abandoned the LORD to give themselves
  27. Hosea 4:12וַיִּזְנ֖וּ · and they have played the harlot
    My people consult their wooden idols, and their divining rods inform them. For a spirit of prostitution leads them astray and they have played the harlot against their God.
  28. Hosea 4:13תִּזְנֶ֙ינָה֙ · turn to prostitution
    They sacrifice on the mountaintops and burn offerings on the hills, under oak, poplar, and terebinth, because their shade is pleasant. And so your daughters turn to prostitution and your daughters-in-law to adultery.
  29. Hosea 4:14תִזְנֶ֗ינָה · they prostitute themselves; הַזֹּנ֣וֹת · prostitutes
    I will not punish your daughters when they prostitute themselves, nor your daughters-in-law when they commit adultery. For the men themselves go off with prostitutes and offer sacrifices with shrine prostitutes. So a people without understanding will come to ruin.
  30. Hosea 4:15זֹנֶ֤ה · prostitute yourself
    Though you prostitute yourself, O Israel, may Judah avoid such guilt! Do not journey to Gilgal, do not go up to Beth-aven, and do not swear on oath, ‘As surely as the LORD lives!’
  31. Hosea 4:18הַזְנֵ֣ה · they turn to prostitution; הִזְנ֔וּ
    When their liquor is gone, they turn to prostitution; their rulers dearly love disgrace.
  32. Hosea 5:3הִזְנֵ֣יתָ · you have turned to prostitution
    I know all about Ephraim, and Israel is not hidden from Me. For now, O Ephraim, you have turned to prostitution; Israel is defiled.
  33. Hosea 9:1זָנִ֖יתָ · you have played the harlot
    Do not rejoice, O Israel, with exultation like the nations, for you have played the harlot against your God; you have made love for hire on every threshing floor.
  34. Joel 3:3בַּזּוֹנָ֔ה · for a prostitute
    They cast lots for My people; they bartered a boy for a prostitute and sold a girl for wine to drink.
  35. Amos 7:17תִּזְנֶה֙ · will become a prostitute
    Therefore this is what the LORD says: ‘Your wife will become a prostitute in the city, and your sons and daughters will fall by the sword. Your land will be divided by a measuring line, and you yourself will die on pagan soil. And Israel will surely go into exile, away from their homeland.’”
  36. Micah 1:7זוֹנָה֙ · of a prostitute; זוֹנָ֖ה · on a prostitute
    All her carved images will be smashed to pieces; all her wages will be burned in the fire, and I will destroy all her idols. Since she collected the wages of a prostitute, they will be used again on a prostitute.
  37. Nahum 3:4זוֹנָ֔ה · of the harlot
    …because of the many harlotries of the harlot, the seductive mistress of sorcery, who betrays nations by her prostitution and clans by her witchcraft.