Fornication
תַּזְנוּתStrong’s H8457taznut (taz-nut)
Appears in 19 verses of the Old Testament
In short
Taznut is the Hebrew word usually translated “prostitution her”, “prostitution your” and “from prostitution your”. It appears in 19 verses of the Old Testament.
“But thou didst trust in thine own beauty, and playedst the harlot because of thy renown, and pouredst out thy fornications on every one that passed by; his it was.”
Meaning
- Fornication, harlotry
How it's translated
- prostitution her 7
- prostitution your 5
- and prostitution your 2
- in prostitution your 2
- from prostitution your 1
- by prostitution your 1
- prostitution their 1
- by prostitution their 1
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- Ezekiel 19
1 book in all.
Related words
Explore in Scripture
- Ezekiel 16:20Moreover thou hast taken thy sons and thy daughters, whom thou hast borne unto me, and these hast thou sacrificed unto them to be devoured. Is this of thy whoredoms a small matter,
- Ezekiel 16:22And in all thine abominations and thy whoredoms thou hast not remembered the days of thy youth, when thou wast naked and bare, and wast polluted in thy blood.
- Ezekiel 16:25Thou hast built thy high place at every head of the way, and hast made thy beauty to be abhorred, and hast opened thy feet to every one that passed by, and multiplied thy whoredoms.
- Ezekiel 16:26Thou hast also committed fornication with the Egyptians thy neighbours, great of flesh; and hast increased thy whoredoms, to provoke me to anger.
- Ezekiel 16:29Thou hast moreover multiplied thy fornication in the land of Canaan unto Chaldea; and yet thou wast not satisfied herewith.
- Ezekiel 16:33They give gifts to all whores: but thou givest thy gifts to all thy lovers, and hirest them, that they may come unto thee on every side for thy whoredom.
Hebrew dictionary
תַּזְנוּת taznut · 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.