תַּזְנוּת taznut

Hebrew word for “fornication” · Strong’s H8457 · used 20 times in 19 verses

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Meaning

fornication, harlotry

How it is translated

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

• prostitutions 16
• prostitution 4

Where it is used

Chapters where it is used most

Ezekiel 23 (10), Ezekiel 16 (9)

Forms

• תזנותיה 6
• תזנותיך 3
• בתזנותיך 3
• מתזנותיך 1
• ותזנתיך 1
• תזנתך 1
• תזנותך 1
• תזנותם 1
• בתזנותם 1
• ותזנותיך 1

Words used with it

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

• זָנָה zanah “to fornicate” 6
• עֶרְוָה ervah “nakedness” 3
• רָבָה ravah “to multiply” 4
• נְעוּרִים naur “youth” 3
• עֶרְיָה eryah “nakedness” 2
• שָׁפַךְ shaphakh “to pour” 3
• יָקַע yaqa “to dislocate/hang” 2
• עֵירֹם erom “naked” 2
• זְנוּנִים zanun “fornication” 2
• גָּלָה galah “to reveal” 3
• יֳפִי yophi “beauty” 2
• זִמָּה zimmah “wickedness” 2

Key verses

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

• 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…
• Ezekiel 16:20 — Moreover thou hast taken thy sons and thy daughters, whom thou hast borne unto me, and these hast thou sacrificed unto them to be devoured. Is this of thy…
• Ezekiel 16:22 — And in all thine abominations and thy whoredoms thou hast not remembered the days of thy youth, when thou wast naked and bare, and wast polluted in thy blood.
• Ezekiel 16:25 — Thou hast built thy high place at every head of the way, and hast made thy beauty to be abhorred, and hast opened thy feet to every one that passed by, and…
• Ezekiel 16:26 — Thou hast also committed fornication with the Egyptians thy neighbours, great of flesh; and hast increased thy whoredoms, to provoke me to anger.
• Ezekiel 16:33 — They give gifts to all whores: but thou givest thy gifts to all thy lovers, and hirest them, that they may come unto thee on every side for thy whoredom.
• Ezekiel 16:36 — Thus saith the Lord GOD; Because thy filthiness was poured out, and thy nakedness discovered through thy whoredoms with thy lovers, and with all the idols of…
• Ezekiel 23:8 — Neither left she her whoredoms brought from Egypt: for in her youth they lay with her, and they bruised the breasts of her virginity, and poured their whoredom…
• Ezekiel 23:18 — So she discovered her whoredoms, and discovered her nakedness: then my mind was alienated from her, like as my mind was alienated from her sister.
• Ezekiel 23:19 — Yet she multiplied her whoredoms, in calling to remembrance the days of her youth, wherein she had played the harlot in the land of Egypt.
• 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…
• Ezekiel 23:35 — Therefore thus saith the Lord GOD; Because thou hast forgotten me, and cast me behind thy back, therefore bear thou also thy lewdness and thy whoredoms.

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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.