Wickedness
זִמָּהStrong’s H2154zimmah (zim-mah)
Appears in 27 verses of the Old Testament
In short
Zimmah is the Hebrew word usually translated “wickedness”, “licentiousness” and “licentiousness your”. It appears in 27 verses of the Old Testament.
“Thou shalt not uncover the nakedness of a woman and her daughter, neither shalt thou take her son’s daughter, or her daughter’s daughter, to uncover her nakedness; for they are her near kinswomen: it is wickedness.”
Meaning
- Plan, device, wickedness, evil plan, mischievous purposeplan, purpose · evil device, wickedness · not chaste, incest, licentiousness, adultery, idolatry, harlotry
How it's translated
- wickedness 10
- licentiousness 5
- licentiousness your 4
- in wickedness 2
- plans my 1
- a plan of 1
- evil purposes 1
- wickedness of 1
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- Ezekiel 13
- Leviticus 3
- Proverbs 3
- Job 2
- Psalms 2
- Judges 1
9 books in all.
Explore in Scripture
- Leviticus 19:29Do not prostitute thy daughter, to cause her to be a whore; lest the land fall to whoredom, and the land become full of wickedness.
- Leviticus 20:14And if a man take a wife and her mother, it is wickedness: they shall be burnt with fire, both he and they; that there be no wickedness among you.
- Judges 20:6And I took my concubine, and cut her in pieces, and sent her throughout all the country of the inheritance of Israel: for they have committed lewdness and folly in Israel.
- Job 17:11My days are past, my purposes are broken off, even the thoughts of my heart.
- Job 31:11For this is an heinous crime; yea, it is an iniquity to be punished by the judges.
- Psalms 26:10In whose hands is mischief, and their right hand is full of bribes.
Hebrew dictionary
זִמָּה zimmah · wickedness
1) plan, device, wickedness, evil plan, mischievous purpose 1a) plan, purpose 1b) evil device, wickedness 1c) not chaste, incest, licentiousness, adultery, idolatry, harlotry
From STEPBible’s Hebrew lexicon (based on Brown-Driver-Briggs).
Webster's 1828 Dictionary
How the English word “wickedness” was understood when the King James Version was still the common Bible of English readers.
WICKEDNESS, noun
Departure from the rules of the divine law; evil disposition or practices; immorality; crime; sin; sinfulness; corrupt manners wickedness generally signifies evil practices.
- “What wickedness is this that is done among you?” Judges 20:12“Their inward part is very wickedness” Psalms 5:9“In heart ye work wickedness 8” Psalms 58:2
Noah Webster, An American Dictionary of the English Language (1828). Verse references are checked against the KJV. Read the full entry.
Verses are from the King James Version. Word meanings come from the original Hebrew, not from any one translation.