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Fornication

זְנוּתStrong’s H2184

zenut (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.”
Numbers 14:33 KJV
Meaning
  1. 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.

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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.]

  1. The incontinence or lewdness of unmarried persons, male or female; also, the criminal conversation of a married man with an unmarried woman.
  2. Adultery. Matthew 5:32
  3. Incest. 1 Corinthians 5:1
  4. 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.