זְנוּנִים
za.nunfornicationHow to read Hebrew
hebrewOld TestamentNoun · masculine12 occurrences5 books10 verses
Definition
from H2181; adultery; figuratively, idolatry
Traditional renderings: whoredom.
Traditional renderings: whoredom.
In the Greek Old Testament
How the ancient Greek translation of the Old Testament renders זְנוּנִים:
- πορνείαporneia“sexual sin”always
Usage patterns
Occurrences
12 total
- Genesis 38:24לִזְנוּנִ֑יםAbout three months later, Judah was told, “Your daughter-in-law Tamar has prostituted herself, and now she is pregnant.” “Bring her out!” Judah replied. “Let her be burned to death!”
- 2 Kings 9:22זְנוּנֵ֞י · the idolatryWhen Joram saw Jehu, he asked, “Have you come in peace, Jehu?” “How can there be peace,” he replied, “as long as the idolatry and witchcraft of your mother Jezebel abound?”
- Ezekiel 23:11מִזְּנוּנֵ֖יHer sister Oholibah saw this, yet in her lust and prostitution she was more depraved than her sister.
- Ezekiel 23:29זְנוּנַ֔יִךְ · of your prostitutionThey will treat you with hatred, take all for which you have worked, and leave you naked and bare, so that the shame of your prostitution will be exposed. Your indecency and promiscuity
- Hosea 1:2זְנוּנִים֙ · a prostitute; זְנוּנִ֔ים · of adulteryWhen the LORD first spoke through Hosea, He told him, “Go, take a prostitute as your wife and have children of adultery, because this land is flagrantly prostituting itself by departing from the LORD.”
- Hosea 2:2זְנוּנֶ֙יהָ֙ · the adulteryRebuke your mother, rebuke her, for she is not My wife, and I am not her husband. Let her remove the adultery from her face and the unfaithfulness from between her breasts.
- Hosea 2:4זְנוּנִ֖ים · of adulteryI will have no compassion on her children, because they are the children of adultery.
- Hosea 4:12זְנוּנִים֙ · of prostitutionMy people consult their wooden idols, and their divining rods inform them. For a spirit of prostitution leads them astray and they have played the harlot against their God.
- Hosea 5:4זְנוּנִים֙ · of prostitutionTheir deeds do not permit them to return to their God, for a spirit of prostitution is within them, and they do not know the LORD.
- Nahum 3:4זְנוּנֵ֣י · harlotries; בִּזְנוּנֶ֔יהָ · by her prostitution…because of the many harlotries of the harlot, the seductive mistress of sorcery, who betrays nations by her prostitution and clans by her witchcraft.