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זָנוּן

zanun · prostitution

Hebrew word · Strong’s number H2183 · appears 12 times in the Bible

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What it means

zanun (זָנוּן) is a Hebrew word of the Bible that means “prostitution”.

Figuratively, unfaithfulness to God.

How to say it

za·nun

Approximate pronunciation. Vowels sound as in Spanish (a as in father, e as in bed, i as in machine, o as in note, u as in rule); the syllable in bold is stressed. The voice is your device's.

Its senses in the Bible

  1. Selling oneself for sex, or unfaithfulness to God.

From Brown-Driver-Briggs (1906)

How it is translated

The words this translation uses for it, most frequent first.

  • prostitutions ×11
  • prostitution ×1

Related words

Comes from

Words of the same family, by Strong’s numbering.

Where it appears

  • Genesis 38:24

    About three months later Judah was told, saying, “Tamar your daughter-in-law has prostituted herself, and moreover, look, she is pregnant by prostitution.” And Judah said, “Bring her out and let her be burned!”

  • 2 Kings 9:22

    And it happened, when Joram saw Jehu, that he said, “Is there peace, Jehu?” He said, “What peace, as long as the prostitutions of Jezebel your mother and her many sorceries go on?”

  • Ezekiel 23:11

    And her sister Oholibah saw it, and she corrupted her infatuation more than she, and her prostitutions more than the prostitutions of her sister.

  • Ezekiel 23:29

    And they will deal with you in hatred, and take all your labor, and leave you naked and bare; and the nakedness of your prostitutions will be uncovered, both your infamy and your prostitutions.

  • Hosea 1:2

    The beginning of what YHWH spoke through Hosea. And YHWH said to Hosea: Go, take for yourself a woman of prostitutions and children of prostitutions, for the land is utterly prostituting itself, turning away from following YHWH.

  • Hosea 2:2

    Contend with your mother, contend, for she is not my wife, and I am not her husband; and let her remove her prostitutions from her face, and her adulteries from between her breasts;

  • Hosea 2:4

    And on her children I will not have compassion, for they are children of prostitutions.

  • Hosea 4:12

    My people consult their piece of wood, and their staff answers them; for a spirit of prostitutions has led them astray, and they have prostituted themselves away from their Elohim.

  • Hosea 5:4

    Their deeds do not allow them to return to their Elohim, for a spirit of prostitutions is in their midst, and YHWH they do not know.

  • Nahum 3:4

    because of the multitude of the prostitutions of the prostitute, beautiful in grace, mistress of sorceries, who sells nations by her prostitutions and families by her sorceries.

And 2 more times.