זְנוּת
zenut · prostitution, unfaithfulness
Hebrew word · Strong’s number H2184 · appears 9 times in the Bible
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zenut (זְנוּת) is a Hebrew word of the Bible that means “prostitution, unfaithfulness”.
Prostitution; figuratively, unfaithfulness to God.
How to say it
ze·nut
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
- Selling oneself for sex; also the unfaithfulness of a people going after other gods.
From Brown-Driver-Briggs (1906)
How it is translated
The words this translation uses for it, most frequent first.
- prostitution ×8
- prostitutions ×1
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Comes from
Words of the same family, by Strong’s numbering.
Where it appears
- Numbers 14:33
And your sons shall be shepherds in the wilderness forty years, and they shall bear your acts of prostitution until the last of your corpses lies in the wilderness.
- Jeremiah 3:2
Lift up your eyes to the bare heights and see: where have you not been lain with? By the roads you sat for them like an Arab in the wilderness, and you defiled the land with your prostitutions and with your evil.
- 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 13:27
Your adulteries and your neighings, the infamy of your prostitution on the hills in the field, I have seen your detestable things. Woe to you, Jerusalem! You will not be clean; after how long still?
- Ezekiel 23:27
And I will put an end to your infamy in you and to your prostitution from the land of Egypt, and you will not lift up your eyes to them, and Egypt you will not remember anymore.
- Ezekiel 43:7
And he said to me, “Son of man, this is the place of my throne and the place of the soles of my feet, where I will dwell in the midst of the sons of Israel forever; and the house of Israel will no longer defile my holy name, they and their kings, by their prostitution and by the corpses of their kings in their high places,
- Ezekiel 43:9
Now let them put far away their prostitution and the corpses of their kings from me, and I will dwell in their midst forever.
- Hosea 4:11
Prostitution, and wine, and new wine take away the heart.
- Hosea 6:10
In the house of Israel I have seen a horrible thing: there is the prostitution of Ephraim; Israel is defiled.