זָנָה zanah

Hebrew word for “to fornicate” · Strong’s H2181 · used 94 times in 83 verses

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Meaning

1) to commit fornication, be a harlot, play the harlot;

How it is translated

Glosses given for zanah in context, with how often each is used:

• prostitute 27
• acted as a prostitute 8
• acted as prostitutes 5
• prostitutes 5
• will prostitute themselves 3
• acting as prostitutes 3
• has acted as a prostitute 2
• acting as a prostitute 2
• played the prostitute 2
• have prostituted themselves 2
• prostitute themselves 2
• have prostituted yourself 2

Where it is used

Also in 8 more books.

Chapters where it is used most

Ezekiel 16 (11), Ezekiel 23 (6), Hosea 4 (6), Jeremiah 3 (4), Leviticus 21 (3), Joshua 6 (3), Isaiah 23 (3), Genesis 38 (2), Exodus 34 (2), Leviticus 20 (2)

Forms

• זונה 18
• ותזני 6
• לזנות 5
• זנה 5
• הזונה 5
• ויזנו 5
• זנתה 3
• זנים 3
• תזנה 3
• ותזנה 3

Words used with it

Words that share verses with zanah more often than their overall frequency would suggest:

• אַחַר achar “after” 17
• אִשָּׁה ishshah “woman” 17
• אֶתְנַן etnan “wages” 7
• תַּזְנוּת taznut “fornication” 6
• נָאַף naaph “to commit adultery” 5
• גַּם gam “also” 9
• שָׁם sham “there” 9
• זְנוּנִים zanun “fornication” 4
• אָב av “father” 10
• ךְ kh “you” 7
• אָהֵב ahav “to love” 6
• הָלַךְ halakh “to go” 10

Key verses

The verses using zanah that are most connected by cross-references (King James Version):

• Exodus 34:15 — Lest thou make a covenant with the inhabitants of the land, and they go a whoring after their gods, and do sacrifice unto their gods, and one call thee, and…
• Deuteronomy 31:16 — And the LORD said unto Moses, Behold, thou shalt sleep with thy fathers; and this people will rise up, and go a whoring after the gods of the strangers of the…
• Joshua 6:17 — And the city shall be accursed, even it, and all that are therein, to the LORD: only Rahab the harlot shall live, she and all that are with her in the house,…
• Isaiah 1:21 — How is the faithful city become an harlot! it was full of judgment; righteousness lodged in it; but now murderers.
• Jeremiah 2:20 — For of old time I have broken thy yoke, and burst thy bands; and thou saidst, I will not transgress; when upon every high hill and under every green tree thou…
• Jeremiah 3:1 — They say, If a man put away his wife, and she go from him, and become another man’s, shall he return unto her again? shall not that land be greatly polluted?…
• Jeremiah 3:3 — Therefore the showers have been withholden, and there hath been no latter rain; and thou hadst a whore’s forehead, thou refusedst to be ashamed.
• Jeremiah 5:7 — How shall I pardon thee for this? thy children have forsaken me, and sworn by them that are no gods: when I had fed them to the full, they then committed…
• Ezekiel 6:9 — And they that escape of you shall remember me among the nations whither they shall be carried captives, because I am broken with their whorish heart, which…
• Ezekiel 16:15 — But thou didst trust in thine own beauty, and playedst the harlot because of thy renown, and pouredst out thy fornications on every one that passed by; his it…
• Hosea 2:5 — For their mother hath played the harlot: she that conceived them hath done shamefully: for she said, I will go after my lovers, that give me my bread and my…
• Hosea 4:15 — Though thou, Israel, play the harlot, yet let not Judah offend; and come not ye unto Gilgal, neither go ye up to Beth-aven, nor swear, The LORD liveth.

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Hebrew and Greek text, tagging, glosses and lexicon definitions: STEPBible.org, Tyndale House Cambridge (TAHOT, TAGNT, TBESH, TBESG; CC BY 4.0), adapted. Counts follow King James verse numbering; a word counts each time it is written.