זְנוּנִים

za.nunfornicationHow to read Hebrew
hebrewOld TestamentNoun · masculine12 occurrences5 books10 verses

Definition

from H2181; adultery; figuratively, idolatry
Traditional renderings: whoredom.

In the Greek Old Testament

How the ancient Greek translation of the Old Testament renders זְנוּנִים:

Usage patterns

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Occurrences

12 total
  1. Genesis 38:24לִזְנוּנִ֑ים
    About 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. 2 Kings 9:22זְנוּנֵ֞י · the idolatry
    When 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?”
  3. Ezekiel 23:11מִזְּנוּנֵ֖י
    Her sister Oholibah saw this, yet in her lust and prostitution she was more depraved than her sister.
  4. Ezekiel 23:29זְנוּנַ֔יִךְ · of your prostitution
    They 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
  5. Hosea 1:2זְנוּנִים֙ · a prostitute; זְנוּנִ֔ים · of adultery
    When 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.”
  6. Hosea 2:2זְנוּנֶ֙יהָ֙ · the adultery
    Rebuke 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.
  7. Hosea 2:4זְנוּנִ֖ים · of adultery
    I will have no compassion on her children, because they are the children of adultery.
  8. Hosea 4:12זְנוּנִים֙ · of prostitution
    My 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.
  9. Hosea 5:4זְנוּנִים֙ · of prostitution
    Their 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.
  10. 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.