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# זְנוּת

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H2184

**fornication** — used 9 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/1494/2184/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

זְנוּת: n.f.abstr. fornication [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1494/2184/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** n.f.abstr. fornication;—ז׳ Ho 4:11; 6:10; sf. זְנוּתֵךְ Je 13:27 Ez 23:27; זְנוּתָהּ Je 3:9; זְנוּתָם Ez 43:7, 9; זְנוּתַיִךְ Je 3:2; זְנוּתֵיכֶם Nu 14:33. sexual Ho 4:11. international Ez 23:27. religious Nu 14:33 (J) Je 3:2, 9; 13:27 Ez 43:7, 9 Ho 6:10 (where WeKl. Proph. suggests זָנִיתָ); cf. זָנָה 3.

Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 9 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 (2 candidates)

## Glosses

MACULA's English glosses of the word in the text, with how often each is used: prostitution (5); prostitution(s) (2); her prostitution (1).

## In the verses

[Hosea 4:11](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/HOS.4.11/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/HOS.4.11/#tree)

זְנ֛וּת וְיַ֥יִן וְתִיר֖וֹשׁ יִֽקַּֽח־לֵֽב׃

*Word for word:* prostitution and wine and new.wine it.takes.away \[the\].heart

*JPS 1917:* Harlotry, wine, and new wine take away the heart.

[Hosea 6:10](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/HOS.6.10/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/HOS.6.10/#tree)

בְּבֵית֙ יִשְׂרָאֵ֔ל רָאִ֖יתִי שַׁעֲרֽוּרִיָּ֑ה שָׁ֚ם זְנ֣וּת לְאֶפְרַ֔יִם נִטְמָ֖א יִשְׂרָאֵֽל׃

*Word for word:* in the.house of.Israel I.have.seen a.horrible.\[thing\] there prostitution \[belongs\].to Ephraim it.has.made.itself.unclean Israel

*JPS 1917:* In the house of Israel I have seen a horrible thing; there harlotry is found in Ephraim, Israel is defiled.

## On Mova

- [This word in the Tanakh dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/2184.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1494/2184/): 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).