Fornication
זְנוּנִיםStrong’s H2183zanun (za-nun)
Appears in 10 verses of the Old Testament
In short
Zanun is the Hebrew word usually translated “prostitution”, “prostitutions of” and “more than prostitutions of”. It appears in 10 verses of the Old Testament.
“And it came to pass about three months after, that it was told Judah, saying, Tamar thy daughter in law hath played the harlot; and also, behold, she is with child by whoredom. And Judah said, Bring her forth, and let her be burnt.”
Meaning
- Adultery, fornication, prostitution
How it's translated
- prostitution 5
- to prostitution 1
- prostitutions of 1
- more than prostitutions of 1
- prostitutions your 1
- prostitution her 1
- prostitution of 1
- by prostitution her 1
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- Hosea 5
- Ezekiel 2
- Genesis 1
- 2 Kings 1
- Nahum 1
5 books in all.
Related words
Explore in Scripture
- 2 Kings 9:22And it came to pass, when Joram saw Jehu, that he said, Is it peace, Jehu? And he answered, What peace, so long as the whoredoms of thy mother Jezebel and her witchcrafts are so many?
- Ezekiel 23:11And when her sister Aholibah saw this, she was more corrupt in her inordinate love than she, and in her whoredoms more than her sister in her whoredoms.
- Ezekiel 23:29And they shall deal with thee hatefully, and shall take away all thy labour, and shall leave thee naked and bare: and the nakedness of thy whoredoms shall be discovered, both thy lewdness and thy whoredoms.
- Hosea 1:2The beginning of the word of the LORD by Hosea. And the LORD said to Hosea, Go, take unto thee a wife of whoredoms and children of whoredoms: for the land hath committed great whoredom, departing from the LORD.
- Hosea 2:2Plead with your mother, plead: for she is not my wife, neither am I her husband: let her therefore put away her whoredoms out of her sight, and her adulteries from between her breasts;
- Hosea 2:4And I will not have mercy upon her children; for they be the children of whoredoms.
Hebrew dictionary
זְנוּנִים zanun · fornication
adultery, fornication, prostitution
From STEPBible’s Hebrew lexicon (based on Brown-Driver-Briggs).
Webster's 1828 Dictionary
How the English word “fornication” was understood when the King James Version was still the common Bible of English readers.
FORNICA'TION, noun
[Latin fornicatio.]
- The incontinence or lewdness of unmarried persons, male or female; also, the criminal conversation of a married man with an unmarried woman.
- Adultery. Matthew 5:32
- Incest. 1 Corinthians 5:1
- Idolatry; a forsaking of the true God, and worshipping of idols., 2 Chronicles 21:11Revelation 19:2
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.