H2184 - זְנוּת (zᵉnûwth)

H2184 זְנוּת (zᵉnûwth) zen-ooth'

Hebrew

Noun (Feminine, Hebrew)

Quick Definition

fornication

Strong's Definition

adultery, i.e. (figuratively) infidelity, idolatry

Derivation: from H2181 (זָנָה);

KJV Usage: whoredom.

TWOT Reference: 563b

Outline of Biblical Usage

1) fornication, harlotry

STEPBible — Tyndale Abridged Hebrew Lexicon

fornication, harlotry

Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon

זְנוּת zenûth BDB Definition: 1) fornication, harlotry Part of Speech: noun feminine A Related Word by BDB/Strongs Number: from H2181 Same Word by TWOT Number: 563b Total KJV Occurrences: 9

Bible Occurrences (9)

14:33

3:2 3:9 13:27

23:27 43:7 43:9

4:11 6:10

Numbers 14:33

Your children will be shepherds in the wilderness for forty years, and they will suffer [for] your unfaithfulness until the last of your bodies lies in the wilderness.

Jeremiah 3:2

Lift up your eyes to the barren heights and see. Is there any place where you have not been violated? You sat beside the highways {waiting} for [your lovers], like a nomad in the desert. You have defiled the land with your prostitution and wickedness.

Jeremiah 3:9

Indifferent to... her [own] infidelity, [Israel] had defiled the land and committed adultery with stones and trees.

Jeremiah 13:27

Your adulteries and lustful neighings, your shameless prostitution on the hills [and] in the fields — I have seen your detestable acts. Woe to you, O Jerusalem! How long...... will you remain unclean?

Ezekiel 23:27

So I will put an end to your indecency and prostitution, which began in the land of Egypt, and you will not lift your eyes to them or remember Egypt... anymore.

Ezekiel 43:7

and He said to me, Son of man, this is the place of My throne and the place for the soles of My feet, where I will dwell... among the Israelites forever.... The house of Israel will never again defile My holy name — neither they nor their kings — by their prostitution and by the funeral offerings for their kings at their deaths.

Ezekiel 43:9

Now let them remove far from Me their prostitution and the funeral offerings for their kings, and I will dwell among them forever.

Hosea 4:11

to promiscuity, wine, and new wine, which take away understanding.