זְנוּנִים zanun

Hebrew word for “fornication” · Strong’s H2183 · used 12 times in 10 verses

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Meaning

adultery, fornication, prostitution

How it is translated

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

• prostitutions 11
• more than the prostitutions 1

Where it is used

Chapters where it is used most

Ezekiel 23 (2), Hosea 2 (2), Genesis 38 (1), 2 Kings 9 (1), Hosea 1 (1), Hosea 4 (1), Hosea 5 (1), Nahum 3 (1)

Forms

• זנונים 5
• זנוני 2
• לזנונים 1
• מזנוני 1
• זנוניך 1
• זנוניה 1
• בזנוניה 1

Words used with it

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

• זָנָה zanah “to fornicate” 4
• כֶּשֶׁף kesheph “sorcery” 2
• תַּזְנוּת taznut “fornication” 2
• אֵם em “mother” 2
• נָגַד nagad “to tell” 2
• רוּחַ ruach “spirit” 2
• אִשָּׁה ishshah “woman” 2
• לָקַח laqach “to take” 2
• רָאָה raah “to see” 2

Key verses

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

• Genesis 38:24 — And it came to pass about three months after, that it was told Judah, saying, Tamar thy daughter in law hath played the harlot; and also, behold, she is with…
• 2 Kings 9:22 — And it came to pass, when Joram saw Jehu, that he said, Is it peace, Jehu? And he answered, What peace, so long as the whoredoms of thy mother Jezebel and her…
• Ezekiel 23:11 — And when her sister Aholibah saw this, she was more corrupt in her inordinate love than she, and in her whoredoms more than her sister in her whoredoms.
• Ezekiel 23:29 — And they shall deal with thee hatefully, and shall take away all thy labour, and shall leave thee naked and bare: and the nakedness of thy whoredoms shall be…
• Hosea 1:2 — The beginning of the word of the LORD by Hosea. And the LORD said to Hosea, Go, take unto thee a wife of whoredoms and children of whoredoms: for the land hath…
• Hosea 2:2 — Plead with your mother, plead: for she is not my wife, neither am I her husband: let her therefore put away her whoredoms out of her sight, and her adulteries…
• Hosea 2:4 — And I will not have mercy upon her children; for they be the children of whoredoms.
• Hosea 4:12 — My people ask counsel at their stocks, and their staff declareth unto them: for the spirit of whoredoms hath caused them to err, and they have gone a whoring…
• Hosea 5:4 — They will not frame their doings to turn unto their God: for the spirit of whoredoms is in the midst of them, and they have not known the LORD.
• Nahum 3:4 — Because of the multitude of the whoredoms of the wellfavoured harlot, the mistress of witchcrafts, that selleth nations through her whoredoms, and families…

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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.