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# תַּזְנוּת

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H8457

**fornication** — used 20 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/1514/8457/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

תַּזְנוּת: n.f.abstr. fornication [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1514/8457/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** n.f.abstr. fornication;—sf. תַּזְנוּתֵךְ Ez 16:20 (Kt) v 25 (Kt) v 29; תַּזְנֻתֵךְ Ez 16:26; תַּזְנוּתָם Ez 23:8, 17; תַּזְנוּתַיִךְ Ez 16:15, 34, 36; תַּזְנֻתַיִךְ Ez 16:22; תַּזְנוּתָ֑יִךְ Ez 16:20(Qr)v 25(Qr)v 33; 23:29, 35; תַּזְנוּתֶיהָ Ez 23:7, 8, 11, 14, 18, 19, 43. These are all international mingled with religious references.

Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 18 of its verses cited, 0 words shared with the glosses, lists its Strong's number (2 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: prostitution(s) (16); prostitution (4).

## In the verses

[Ezekiel 23:43](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/EZK.23.43/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/EZK.23.43/#tree)

וָאֹמַ֕ר לַבָּלָ֖ה נִֽאוּפִ֑ים עַתָּ֛ה יִזְנ֥וּ תַזְנוּתֶ֖הָ וָהִֽיא׃

*Word for word:* and I.said of the.\[woman\] worn.out adulteri(es) now they.will.act.as.a.prostitutes prostitution(s) her and she

*JPS 1917:* Then said I of her that was worn out by adulteries: Still they commit harlotries with her, even her.

[Ezekiel 16:29](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/EZK.16.29/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/EZK.16.29/#tree)

וַתַּרְבִּ֧י אֶת־תַּזְנוּתֵ֛ךְ אֶל־אֶ֥רֶץ כְּנַ֖עַן כַּשְׂדִּ֑ימָה וְגַם־בְּזֹ֖את לֹ֥א שָׂבָֽעַתְּ׃

*Word for word:* and you.increased (et) prostitution your to a.land of.merchant\[s\] to Chaldea and also by this not you.were.satisfied

*JPS 1917:* Thou hast moreover multiplied thy harlotry with the land of traffic, even with Chaldea; and yet thou didst not have enough herewith.

## On Mova

- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1514/8457/): 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).