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# זְנוּנִים

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H2183

**fornication** — used 12 times in the Hebrew Bible. Below: its meanings with their sources, MACULA's glosses, and 2 verses word for word and in JPS 1917.

## Meaning

### OpenScriptures lexical index

fornication [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1494/2183/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

זְנוּנִים: fornication [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1494/2183/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** n.\[m.\] fornication, pl.abstr. intens. (Ol§ 215 a; DlPr 74, der. from √ זנן, Assyrian zanânu, fill full, cf. Dlib. 73)—ז׳ Ho 1:2 + 5 times, cstr. זְנוּנֵי Na 3:4 + 2 times, זְנוּנַיִךְ Ez 23:29, זְנוּנֶיהָ Ho 2:4 Na 3:4. sexual Gn 38:24 (J) Ho 1:2(×2). international Na 3:4(×2). religious 2 K 9:22 Ez 23:11, 29 Ho 2:4, 6; 4:12; 5:4.

Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 10 of its verses cited, 0 words shared with the glosses, lists its Strong's number (1 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 1 words shared with the BDB entry, 0 with the glosses (1 candidates)

## Glosses

MACULA's English glosses of the word in the text, with how often each is used: of prostitution(s) (5); prostitution(s) (3); of \[the\] prostitution(s) (1).

## In the verses

[Hosea 2:6](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/HOS.2.6/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/HOS.2.6/#tree)

וְאֶת־בָּנֶ֖יהָ לֹ֣א אֲרַחֵ֑ם כִּֽי־בְנֵ֥י זְנוּנִ֖ים הֵֽמָּה׃

*Word for word:* and (et) children her not I.will.have.compassion.on (dm) \[are\].children of.prostitution(s) they

*JPS 1917:* And I will not have compassion upon her children; for they are children of harlotry.

[Ezekiel 23:11](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/EZK.23.11/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/EZK.23.11/#tree)

וַתֵּ֙רֶא֙ אֲחוֹתָ֣הּ אָהֳלִיבָ֔ה וַתַּשְׁחֵ֥ת עַגְבָתָ֖הּ מִמֶּ֑נָּה וְאֶת־תַּ֨זְנוּתֶ֔יהָ מִזְּנוּנֵ֖י אֲחוֹתָֽהּ׃

*Word for word:* and she.saw sister her Oholibah and she.acted.corruptly lust her more than.her and (et) prostitution(s) her more than.the.prostitution(s) her.sister her

*JPS 1917:* And her sister Oholibah saw this, yet was she more corrupt in her doting than she, and in her harlotries more than her sister in her harlotries.

## On Mova

- [This word in the Tanakh dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/2183.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1494/2183/): every English meaning parsed by Mova, with its dependency tree and frames.

Sources. The words, their counts, glosses and the word-for-word renderings: MACULA Hebrew (the Westminster Leningrad Codex; Clear Bible, CC BY 4.0). Meanings: the OpenScriptures lexical index (CC BY 4.0), Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906 and Jastrow 1903 (public domain, via Sefaria); Targum Onkelos from Sefaria (public domain). Translation: JPS 1917 (public domain, from eBible.org).