H2183 - זָנוּן (zânûwn)

H2183 זָנוּן (zânûwn) zaw-noon'

Hebrew

Noun (Masculine, Hebrew)

Quick Definition

fornication

Strong's Definition

adultery; figuratively, idolatry

Derivation: from H2181 (זָנָה);

KJV Usage: whoredom.

TWOT Reference: 563a

Outline of Biblical Usage

1) adultery, fornication, prostitution

Septuagint (LXX) Greek Equivalents

This Hebrew word is translated by the following Greek words in the Septuagint:

G4202

STEPBible — Tyndale Abridged Hebrew Lexicon

adultery, fornication, prostitution

Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon

זָנוּן zânûn BDB Definition: 1) adultery, fornication, prostitution Part of Speech: noun masculine plural A Related Word by BDB/Strongs Number: from H2181 Same Word by TWOT Number: 563a Total KJV Occurrences: 11

Bible Occurrences (10)

38:24

9:22

23:11 23:29

1:2 2:2 2:4 4:12 5:4

3:4

Genesis 38:24

About three months later, Judah was told, Your daughter-in-law Tamar has prostituted herself, and now she is pregnant.... Bring her out! Judah replied. Let her be burned to death!

2 Kings 9:22

When Joram saw Jehu, he asked, Have you come in peace, Jehu? How can there be peace, he replied, as long as the idolatry and witchcraft of your mother Jezebel abound?

Ezekiel 23:11

Her sister Oholibah saw [this], yet in her lust and prostitution... she was more depraved than her sister.

Ezekiel 23:29

They will treat... you with hatred, take all for which you have worked, and leave you naked and bare, so that the shame of your prostitution will be exposed. Your indecency and promiscuity

Hosea 1:2

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.

Hosea 2:2

Rebuke your mother, rebuke her, for she is not My wife, and I am not her husband. Let her remove the adultery from her face and the unfaithfulness from between her breasts.

Hosea 2:4

I will have no compassion on her children, because they are the children of adultery.

Hosea 4:12

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.