zima · wicked plan, lewdness

What it means

zima (זִמָּה) is a Hebrew word of the Bible that means “wicked plan, lewdness”.

An evil plan; shameful conduct, especially in sexual matters.

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. A shameful deed, especially sexual.
2. A plot, or a design.

From Brown-Driver-Briggs (1906)

How it is translated

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

• infamy ×27
• plans ×1
• schemes ×1

Related words

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

Where it appears

• Leviticus×4
• Judges×1
• Job×2
• Psalms×2
• Proverbs×3
• Isaiah×1
• Jeremiah×1
• Ezekiel×14
• Hosea×1

• Leviticus 18:17

  The nakedness of a woman and her daughter you shall not uncover; you shall not take her son’s daughter or her daughter’s daughter to uncover her nakedness; they are close relatives; it is infamy.

• Leviticus 19:29

  Do not profane your daughter by making her a prostitute, so that the land does not prostitute itself and the land become full of infamy.

• Leviticus 20:14

  And a man who takes a woman and her mother — it is infamy; they shall burn him and them in the fire, so that there may not be infamy among you.

• Judges 20:6

  So I took hold of my concubine and cut her in pieces and sent her throughout all the field of the inheritance of Israel, for they have committed infamy and vileness in Israel.

• Job 17:11

  My days have passed; my plans are torn apart, the possessions of my heart.

• Job 31:11

  For that would be infamy, and that would be an iniquity for the judges;

• Psalms 26:10

  in whose hands is infamy, and their right hand is full of bribes.

• Psalms 119:150

  Those who pursue infamy have drawn near; from your instruction they are far.

• Proverbs 10:23

  Like sport to the senseless one is doing infamy, and wisdom to a man of insight.

• Proverbs 21:27

  The sacrifice of the wicked is an abomination; how much more when he brings it with infamy.

• Proverbs 24:9

  The infamy of folly is sin, and the scoffer is an abomination to mankind.

• Isaiah 32:7

  And the cheat, his weapons are evil; he plans schemes to ruin the afflicted with words of falsehood, even when the needy speaks what is just.

• 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 16:27

  And look, I have stretched out my hand against you and withdrawn your allotted portion, and given you to the desire of those who hate you, the daughters of the Philistines, who are ashamed of your way of infamy.

• Ezekiel 16:43

  Because you did not remember the days of your youth, but raged against me with all these things, I also, look, will bring your way on your head, declares Adonai YHWH; and did you not commit the infamy on top of all your abominations?

• Ezekiel 16:58

  Your infamy and your abominations, you bear them, declares YHWH.

• Ezekiel 22:9

  Men of gossip have been in you to shed blood; and on the mountains they have eaten in you; infamy they have committed in your midst.

• Ezekiel 22:11

  And one with the wife of his neighbor has committed abomination, and another his daughter-in-law has defiled with infamy, and another his sister, the daughter of his father, has humiliated in you.

• Ezekiel 23:21

  And you missed the infamy of your youth, when those from Egypt squeezed your bosoms for the sake of the breasts of your youth.

• 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 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 23:44

  And one went in to her, as one goes in to a woman who is a prostitute; so they went in to Oholah and to Oholibah, the women of infamy.

• Ezekiel 23:48

  And I will put an end to infamy in the land, and all the women will take correction, and they will not act according to your infamy.

• Ezekiel 23:49

  And they will put your infamy on you, and the sins of your idols you will bear; and you will know that I am Adonai YHWH.”

• Ezekiel 24:13

  In your uncleanness is infamy; because I cleansed you and you were not clean from your uncleanness, you will not be clean again until I bring to rest my fury on you.

• Hosea 6:9

  And as bands of raiders lie in wait for a man, so is the company of priests; on the road they murder toward Shechem, for they commit infamy.

And 2 more times.