Fornication
זְנוּתStrong’s H2184zenut (ze-nut)
Appears in 9 verses of the Old Testament
In short
Zenut is the Hebrew word usually translated “prostitution your”, “prostitution” and “prostitution her”. It appears in 9 verses of the Old Testament.
“And your children shall wander in the wilderness forty years, and bear your whoredoms, until your carcases be wasted in the wilderness.”
Meaning
- Fornication, harlotry
How it's translated
- prostitution your 3
- prostitution 2
- by prostitution your 1
- prostitution her 1
- by prostitution their 1
- prostitution their 1
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- Jeremiah 3
- Ezekiel 3
- Hosea 2
- Numbers 1
4 books in all.
Related words
Explore in Scripture
- Jeremiah 3:2Lift up thine eyes unto the high places, and see where thou hast not been lien with. In the ways hast thou sat for them, as the Arabian in the wilderness; and thou hast polluted the land with thy whoredoms and with thy wickedness.
- Jeremiah 3:9And it came to pass through the lightness of her whoredom, that she defiled the land, and committed adultery with stones and with stocks.
- Jeremiah 13:27I have seen thine adulteries, and thy neighings, the lewdness of thy whoredom, and thine abominations on the hills in the fields. Woe unto thee, O Jerusalem! wilt thou not be made clean? when shall it once be?
- Ezekiel 23:27Thus will I make thy lewdness to cease from thee, and thy whoredom brought from the land of Egypt: so that thou shalt not lift up thine eyes unto them, nor remember Egypt any more.
- Ezekiel 43:7And he said unto me, Son of man, the place of my throne, and the place of the soles of my feet, where I will dwell in the midst of the children of Israel for ever, and my holy name, shall the house of Israel no more defile, neither they, nor their kings, by their whoredom, nor by the carcases of their kings in their high places.
- Ezekiel 43:9Now let them put away their whoredom, and the carcases of their kings, far from me, and I will dwell in the midst of them for ever.
Hebrew dictionary
זְנוּת zenut · fornication
fornication, harlotry
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.