H2181 · זָנָה
zânâh · zaw-naw' · harlot, whoredom
H2181 (zânâh, pronounced zaw-naw') is the Hebrew word זָנָה in Strong’s dictionary: to commit adultery (usually of the female, and less often of simple fornication, rarely of involuntary ravishment). It appears 94 times in 83 verses of the BSB (Yahweh).
Strong’s entry
- Original word
- זָנָה (Hebrew)
- Transliteration
- zânâh
- Pronunciation
- zaw-naw'
- Derivation
- a primitive root (highly-fed and therefore wanton);
- Definition
- to commit adultery (usually of the female, and less often of simple fornication, rarely of involuntary ravishment); figuratively, to commit idolatry (the Jewish people being regarded as the spouse of Jehovah)
- Rendered in the KJV
- (cause to) commit fornication, [idiom] continually, [idiom] great, (be an, play the) harlot, (cause to be, play the) whore, (commit, fall to) whoredom, (cause to) go a-whoring, whorish.
Strong’s dictionary (1890) writes the divine name “Jehovah”; the Berean Standard Bible (Yahweh) prints Yahweh.
In the Berean Standard Bible (Yahweh)
94 occurrences in 83 verses (89 with English words of their own, 5 in the original with no English word of their own).
How the BSB renders it
- “a prostitute” ×3
- “of a prostitute” ×3
- “and prostituted themselves” ×2
- “as a prostitute” ×2
- “by prostitution” ×2
- “of prostitutes” ×2
- “of the harlot” ×2
- “of the prostitute” ×2
By book
Genesis 3 · Exodus 2 · Leviticus 7 · Numbers 2 · Deuteronomy 3 · Joshua 4 · Judges 6 · 1 Kings 2 · 1 Chronicles 1 · 2 Chronicles 2 · Psalms 2 · Proverbs 4 · Isaiah 5 · Jeremiah 6 · Ezekiel 19 · Hosea 11 · Joel 1 · Amos 1 · Micah 1 · Nahum 1
First 30 of 83 verses
- Genesis 34:31
- Genesis 38:15
- Genesis 38:24
- Exodus 34:15
- Exodus 34:16
- Leviticus 17:7
- Leviticus 19:29
- Leviticus 20:5
- Leviticus 20:6
- Leviticus 21:7
- Leviticus 21:9
- Leviticus 21:14
- Numbers 15:39
- Numbers 25:1
- Deuteronomy 22:21
- Deuteronomy 23:18
- Deuteronomy 31:16
- Joshua 2:1
- Joshua 6:17
- Joshua 6:22
- Joshua 6:25
- Judges 2:17
- Judges 8:27
- Judges 8:33
- Judges 11:1
- Judges 16:1
- Judges 19:2
- 1 Kings 3:16
- 1 Kings 22:38
- 1 Chronicles 5:25
Related words
Numbers that share a root with H2181.