Adultery
נִאֻףStrong’s H5004niuph (ni-uph)
Appears in 2 verses of the Old Testament
In short
Niuph is the Hebrew word usually translated “adulteri your” and “adulteries”. It appears in 2 verses of the Old Testament.
“I 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?”
Meaning
- Adulteryidolatrous worship (fig.)
How it's translated
- adulteri your 1
- adulteries 1
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- Jeremiah 1
- Ezekiel 1
2 books in all.
Related words
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Hebrew dictionary
נִאֻף niuph · adultery
1) adultery 1a) idolatrous worship (fig.)
From STEPBible’s Hebrew lexicon (based on Brown-Driver-Briggs).
Webster's 1828 Dictionary
How the English word “adultery” was understood when the King James Version was still the common Bible of English readers.
ADUL'TERY, noun
[Latin adulterium. See Adulterate.]
- Violation of the marriage bed; a crime, or a civil injury, which introduces, or may introduce, into a family, a spurious offspring.
- In a scriptural sense, all manner of lewdness or unchastity, as in the seventh commandment.
- In scripture, idolatry, or apostasy from the true God. Jeremiah 3:8
- In old laws, the fine and penalty imposed for the offense of adultery
All definitions
- In ecclesiastical affairs, the intrusion of a person into a bishopric, during the life of the bishop.
- Among ancient naturalists, the grafting of trees was called adultery being considered as an unnatural union.
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.