taznut · prostitution

What it means

taznut (תַּזְנוּת) is a Hebrew word of the Bible that means “prostitution”.

Figuratively, unfaithfulness to God by going after other gods.

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. Selling oneself for sex; or unfaithfulness to God with other gods.

From Brown-Driver-Briggs (1906)

How it is translated

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

• prostitutions ×16
• prostitution ×4

Where it appears

• Ezekiel 16:15

  But you trusted in your beauty and prostituted yourself because of your name, and poured out your prostitutions on everyone passing by; his it was.

• Ezekiel 16:20

  And you took your sons and your daughters whom you had borne to me, and you sacrificed them to them to be devoured. Were your prostitutions so small a thing,

• Ezekiel 16:22

  And in all your abominations and your prostitutions you did not remember the days of your youth, when you were naked and bare, wallowing in your blood.

• Ezekiel 16:25

  At the head of every road you built your lofty place, and made your beauty abominable, and spread your legs to everyone passing by, and multiplied your prostitutions.

• Ezekiel 16:26

  And you prostituted yourself with the sons of Egypt, your neighbors, great of flesh, and multiplied your prostitution to provoke me.

• Ezekiel 16:29

  And you multiplied your prostitution with the land of Canaan, Chaldea, and even with this you were not satisfied.

• Ezekiel 16:33

  To all prostitutes they give a gift, but you gave your gifts to all your lovers, and you bribed them to come to you from all around for your prostitutions.

• 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 16:36

  Thus says Adonai YHWH: Because your copper was poured out and your nakedness was uncovered in your prostitutions with your lovers, and with all the idols of your abominations, and because of the blood of your sons that you gave to them,

• Ezekiel 23:7

  And she bestowed her prostitutions on them, the choicest of the sons of Assyria, all of them; and with all for whom she was infatuated, with all their idols, she defiled herself.

• Ezekiel 23:8

  And her prostitutions from Egypt she did not abandon, for with her they lay in her youth, and they squeezed the bosoms of her virginity, and they poured out their prostitution on her.

• 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 23:14

  And she added to her prostitutions; and she saw men carved on the wall, images of Chaldeans engraved in vermilion,

• Ezekiel 23:17

  And the sons of Babylon came to her, to the bed of love, and they defiled her with their prostitution, and she was defiled by them, and her soul felt aversion toward them.

• Ezekiel 23:18

  And she uncovered her prostitutions, and she uncovered her nakedness, and my soul felt aversion toward her, as my soul had felt aversion toward her sister.

• Ezekiel 23:19

  And she multiplied her prostitutions, remembering the days of her youth, when she prostituted herself in the land of Egypt.

• 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.

• Ezekiel 23:35

  Therefore thus says Adonai YHWH: Because you have forgotten me and cast me behind your back, you also bear your infamy and your prostitutions.

• Ezekiel 23:43

  And I said of the one worn out with adulteries, ‘Now they will commit her prostitutions, and she too.’

And 1 more times.