זָנָה

za.nah

Hebrew H2181 Verb 94 occurrences in 83 verses
זָנָה to fornicate

1. to commit fornication, be a harlot, play the harlot

a. (Qal)

1. to be a harlot, act as a harlot, commit fornication

2. to commit adultery

3. to be a cult prostitute

4. to be unfaithful (to God) (fig.)

b. (Pual) to play the harlot

c. (Hiphil)

1. to cause to commit adultery

2. to force into prostitution

3. to commit fornication

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Concordance 83 verses

  1. Ezekiel 16:15 וַתִּזְנִ֖י

    But because of your fame, you trusted in your beauty and played the harlot. You lavished your favors on everyone who passed by, and your beauty was theirs for the asking.

  2. Ezekiel 16:16 וַתִּזְנִ֖י

    You took some of your garments and made colorful high places for yourself, and on them you prostituted yourself. Such things should not have happened; never should they have occurred!

  3. Ezekiel 16:17 וַתִּזְנִי־

    You also took the fine jewelry of gold and silver I had given you, and you made male idols with which to prostitute yourself.

  4. Ezekiel 16:26 וַתִּזְנִ֧י

    You prostituted yourself with your lustful neighbors, the Egyptians, and increased your promiscuity to provoke Me to anger.

  5. Ezekiel 16:28 וַתִּזְנִי֙וַתִּזְנִ֕ים

    Then you prostituted yourself with the Assyrians, because you were not yet satisfied. Even after that, you were still not satisfied.

  6. Ezekiel 16:30 זוֹנָ֖ה

    How weak-willed is your heart, declares the Lord GOD, while you do all these things, the acts of a shameless prostitute!

  7. Ezekiel 16:31 כַּזּוֹנָ֖ה

    But when you built your mounds at the head of every street and made your lofty shrines in every public square, you were not even like a prostitute, because you scorned payment.

  8. Ezekiel 16:33 זֹנ֖וֹת

    Men give gifts to all their prostitutes, but you gave gifts to all your lovers. You bribed them to come to you from everywhere for your illicit favors.

  9. Ezekiel 16:34 זוּנָּ֑ה

    So your prostitution is the opposite of that of other women: No one solicited your favors, and you paid a fee instead of receiving one; so you are the very opposite!

  10. Ezekiel 16:35 זוֹנָ֔ה

    Therefore, O prostitute, hear the word of the LORD!

  11. Ezekiel 16:41 מִזּוֹנָ֔ה

    Then they will burn down your houses and execute judgment against you in the sight of many women. I will put an end to your prostitution, and you will never again pay your lovers.

  12. Ezekiel 20:30 זֹנִֽים׃

    Therefore tell the house of Israel that this is what the Lord GOD says: Will you defile yourselves the way your fathers did, prostituting yourselves with their abominations?

  13. Ezekiel 23:3 וַתִּזְנֶ֣ינָהזָנ֑וּ

    and they played in Egypt, prostituting themselves from their youth. Their breasts were fondled there, and their virgin bosoms caressed.

  14. Ezekiel 23:5 וַתִּ֥זֶן

    Oholah prostituted herself while she was still Mine. She lusted after her lovers, the Assyrians—warriors

  15. Ezekiel 23:19 זָנְתָ֖ה

    Yet she multiplied her promiscuity, remembering the days of her youth, when she had prostituted herself in the land of Egypt

  16. Ezekiel 23:30 בִּזְנוֹתֵךְ֙

    have brought these things upon you, because you have prostituted yourself with the nations and defiled yourself with their idols.

  17. Ezekiel 23:43 יִזְנֻה

    Then I said of her who had grown old in adulteries: ‘Now let them use her as a prostitute, for that is all she is!’

  18. Ezekiel 23:44 זוֹנָ֑ה

    And they slept with her as with a prostitute; they slept with Oholah and Oholibah, those lewd women.

  19. Hosea 1:2 זָנֹ֤התִזְנֶה֙

    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.”

  20. Hosea 2:5 זָֽנְתָה֙

    For their mother has played the harlot and has conceived them in disgrace. For she thought, ‘I will go after my lovers, who give me bread and water, wool and linen, oil and drink.’

  21. Hosea 3:3 תִזְנִ֔י

    Then I said to her, “You must live with me for many days; you must not be promiscuous or belong to another, and I will do the same for you.”

  22. Hosea 4:10 הִזְנ֖וּ

    They will eat but not be satisfied; they will be promiscuous but not multiply. For they have stopped obeying the LORD.

  23. Hosea 4:12 וַיִּזְנ֖וּ

    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.

  24. Hosea 4:13 תִּזְנֶ֙ינָה֙

    They sacrifice on the mountaintops and burn offerings on the hills, under oak, poplar, and terebinth, because their shade is pleasant. And so your daughters turn to prostitution and your daughters-in-law to adultery.

  25. Hosea 4:14 תִזְנֶ֗ינָההַזֹּנ֣וֹת

    I will not punish your daughters when they prostitute themselves, nor your daughters-in-law when they commit adultery. For the men themselves go off with prostitutes and offer sacrifices with shrine prostitutes. So a people without understanding will come to ruin.

  26. Hosea 4:15 זֹנֶ֤ה

    Though you prostitute yourself, O Israel, may Judah avoid such guilt! Do not journey to Gilgal, do not go up to Beth-aven, and do not swear on oath, ‘As surely as the LORD lives!’

  27. Hosea 4:18 הַזְנֵ֣ההִזְנ֔וּ

    When their liquor is gone, they turn to prostitution; their rulers dearly love disgrace.

  28. Hosea 5:3 הִזְנֵ֣יתָ

    I know all about Ephraim, and Israel is not hidden from Me. For now, O Ephraim, you have turned to prostitution; Israel is defiled.

  29. Hosea 9:1 זָנִ֖יתָ

    Do not rejoice, O Israel, with exultation like the nations, for you have played the harlot against your God; you have made love for hire on every threshing floor.

  30. Joel 3:3 בַּזּוֹנָ֔ה

    They cast lots for My people; they bartered a boy for a prostitute and sold a girl for wine to drink.

  31. Amos 7:17 תִּזְנֶה֙

    Therefore this is what the LORD says: ‘Your wife will become a prostitute in the city, and your sons and daughters will fall by the sword. Your land will be divided by a measuring line, and you yourself will die on pagan soil. And Israel will surely go into exile, away from their homeland.’”

  32. Micah 1:7 זוֹנָה֙זוֹנָ֖ה

    All her carved images will be smashed to pieces; all her wages will be burned in the fire, and I will destroy all her idols. Since she collected the wages of a prostitute, they will be used again on a prostitute.

  33. Nahum 3:4 זוֹנָ֔ה

    because of the many harlotries of the harlot, the seductive mistress of sorcery, who betrays nations by her prostitution and clans by her witchcraft.

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