naaf · commit adultery

What it means

naaf (נָאַף) is a Hebrew word of the Bible that means “commit adultery”.

Have sexual relations with someone who is another's wife or husband. Figuratively, of Israel turning away from God.

How to say it

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. To sleep with another's spouse.
2. Israel being unfaithful to God with idols.

From Brown-Driver-Briggs (1906)

How it is translated

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

• adulterers ×5
• commit adultery ×5
• adulterer ×3
• adulteresses ×3
• commits adultery ×3
• they have committed adultery ×3
• adulteress ×2
• adulterous ×2
• committing adultery ×2
• had committed adultery ×1
• others ×2

Related words

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

Where it appears

• Exodus×1
• Leviticus×4
• Deuteronomy×1
• Job×1
• Psalms×1
• Proverbs×2
• Isaiah×1
• Jeremiah×8
• Ezekiel×6
• Hosea×5
• Malachi×1

• Exodus 20:14

  You shall not commit adultery.

• Leviticus 20:10

  And a man who commits adultery with the wife of a man, who commits adultery with the wife of his neighbor, shall surely be put to death, the adulterer and the adulteress.

• Deuteronomy 5:18

  Nor shall you commit adultery.

• Job 24:15

  And the eye of the adulterer watches for the twilight, saying, ‘No eye will catch sight of me,’ and he puts a covering on his face.

• Psalms 50:18

  When you see a thief, you are pleased with him, and with adulterers is your portion.

• Proverbs 6:32

  He who commits adultery with a woman is lacking sense; he who does it destroys his own soul.

• Proverbs 30:20

  So is the way of an adulterous woman: she eats and wipes her mouth, and says, “I have not done wickedness.”

• Isaiah 57:3

  “But you, come near here, sons of a sorceress, offspring of an adulterer and of her who prostitutes herself.

• Jeremiah 3:8

  And I saw that for all the reasons that apostate Israel had committed adultery, I had sent her away and given her her certificate of divorce; yet treacherous Judah, her sister, did not fear, but she went and prostituted herself too, she herself.

• Jeremiah 3:9

  And it happened that through the lightness of her prostitution she defiled the land, and she committed adultery with stone and with wood.

• Jeremiah 5:7

  “Why should I pardon you for this? Your children have forsaken me and sworn by what is not Elohim. I fed them to the full, and they committed adultery, and at the house of a prostitute they crowded together.

• Jeremiah 7:9

  Will you steal, murder, and commit adultery, and swear falsely, and burn incense to Baal, and walk after other gods that you have not known,

• Jeremiah 9:2

  Oh that I had in the wilderness a lodging place for travelers, that I might leave my people and go away from them! For they are all adulterers, an assembly of traitors.

• Jeremiah 23:10

  For the land is full of adulterers; for because of the curse the land mourns; the pastures of the wilderness have dried up; and their course is evil, and their might is not right.

• Jeremiah 23:14

  And in the prophets of Jerusalem I have seen a horrible thing: committing adultery and walking in falsehood; and they strengthen the hands of evildoers, so that no one turns back from his evil; they have become to me, all of them, like Sodom, and its inhabitants like Gomorrah.

• Jeremiah 29:23

  because they have done an outrage in Israel, and they have committed adultery with the wives of their neighbors, and they have spoken a word in my name, falsehood, which I did not command them; and I am the one who knows, and a witness, declares YHWH.”

• Ezekiel 16:32

  The adulterous wife, who instead of her husband takes strangers!

• Ezekiel 16:38

  And I will judge you with the judgments of adulteresses and of women who shed blood, and I will make you blood of fury and of jealousy.

• Ezekiel 23:37

  For they have committed adultery, and blood is on their hands; and with their idols they have committed adultery; and even their sons whom they had borne to me they have made them pass to them as food.

• Ezekiel 23:45

  But righteous men, they will judge them with the judgment of adulteresses and the judgment of women who shed blood; for adulteresses they are, and blood is on their hands.

• Hosea 3:1

  And YHWH said to me: Go again, love a woman loved by a companion and an adulteress, like the love of YHWH for the children of Israel, though they turn to other gods and love raisin cakes.

• Hosea 4:2

  Cursing, and lying, and murdering, and stealing, and committing adultery; they break out, and bloodshed touches bloodshed.

• Hosea 4:13

  On the tops of the mountains they sacrifice, and on the hills they burn incense, under oak and poplar and terebinth, for their shade is good. Therefore your daughters prostitute themselves, and your daughters-in-law commit adultery.

• Hosea 4:14

  I will not call your daughters to account when they prostitute themselves, or your daughters-in-law when they commit adultery; for they themselves go aside with prostitutes and sacrifice with sacred prostitutes; and a people that does not understand will come to ruin.

• Hosea 7:4

  All of them are adulterers, like an oven heated by the baker, who stops stirring the fire from the kneading of the dough until it is leavened.

• Malachi 3:5

  And I will draw near to you for judgment, and I will be a swift witness against the sorcerers and against the adulterers and against those who swear falsely, and against those who exploit the wages of the hired worker, the widow and the orphan, and against those who turn aside the right of the resident alien, and do not fear me, says YHWH Tsevaot.

And 5 more times.