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אֶתְנַן

etnan · wages of a prostitute

Hebrew word · Strong’s number H868 · appears 11 times in the Bible

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What it means

etnan (אֶתְנַן) is a Hebrew word of the Bible that means “wages of a prostitute”.

The pay of a prostitute; also a gift.

How to say it

et·nan

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. What a prostitute is paid; or unfaithful gain.

From Brown-Driver-Briggs (1906)

How it is translated

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

  • wages ×7
  • fee ×4

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Where it appears

  • Deuteronomy 23:18

    You shall not bring the wages of a prostitute or the price of a dog into the house of YHWH your Elohim for any vow, for an abomination to YHWH your Elohim are both of them.

  • Isaiah 23:17

    And it will happen, at the end of seventy years, that YHWH will visit Tyre, and she will return to her wages, and will prostitute herself with all the kingdoms of the earth on the face of the ground.

  • Isaiah 23:18

    And her profit and her wages will be holy to YHWH; it will not be stored up nor hoarded; for for those who dwell before YHWH her profit will be for eating to satisfaction and for splendid clothing.

  • Ezekiel 16:31

    When you built your mound at the head of every road and made your lofty place in every square, you were not like the prostitute, for you scoffed at the fee.

  • Ezekiel 16:34

    And there was in you the opposite of other women in your prostitutions: no one prostituted himself after you; and when you gave a fee, and no fee was given to you, you were the opposite.

  • Ezekiel 16:41

    And they will burn your houses with fire and execute judgments on you before the eyes of many women; and I will make you stop being a prostitute, and you will no longer give a fee.

  • Hosea 9:1

    Do not rejoice, Israel, with exultation like the peoples, for you have prostituted yourself away from your Elohim; you have loved a prostitute's wages on all the threshing floors of grain.

  • Micah 1:7

    And all her carved images will be smashed, and all her wages will be burned with fire, and all her idols I will make a desolation; for from the wages of a prostitute she gathered them, and to the wages of a prostitute they will return.”

And 3 more times.