◄ 2181. zanah ►
Lexical Summary
zanah: to commit fornication, be a harlot
Original Word: זָנָה
Transliteration: zanah
Phonetic Spelling: (zaw-naw')
Part of Speech: Verb
Short Definition: to commit fornication, be a harlot
Meaning: to commit adultery, to commit idolatry
Strong's Concordance
cause to commit fornication, continually, great, be an, play the harlot

A primitive root (highly-fed and therefore wanton); 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) -- (cause to) commit fornication, X continually, X great, (be an, play the) harlot, (cause to be, play the) whore, (commit, fall to) whoredom, (cause to) go a-whoring, whorish.

Brown-Driver-Briggs

H2181. zanah

זָנָה‎ verb commit fornication, be a harlot (Arabic commit fornication, Aramaic , זנא‎; compare Ethiopic effusio seminis virilis, seman effusum, Di1055; on this and (compare by Ges and others) see PrätBAS i. 32, Anm.) —

Qal Perfect ׳ז‎ Deuteronomy 31:16, זָָֽנְתָה‎ Genesis 38:34 3t., etc.; Imperfect יִזְנֶ֯ה‎ (Kt) Ezekiel 23:43; תִּזְנֶה‎ Leviticus 19:29 4t.; וַתִּ֫זֶן‎ Jeremiah 3:8; Ezekiel 23:5; תִּזְנִי‎ Hosea 3:3; וַתִּזְנִי‎ Jeremiah 3:6 (but read probably ׃וַתִּזֶן וַתִּזְנִי‎ is not Aramaic form of 3 feminine singular, see Köi. 540 Kau§ 47 g b) Ezekiel 16:15 4t.; וַתִּזְנִים‎ 16:28; יִזְנוּ‎ (Qr) 23:43; וַיִּזְנוּ‎ Judges 8:27 4t.; תִּזְנֶינָה‎ Hosea 4:13-14, וַתִּזְנֶינָה‎ Ezekiel 23:3; Infinitive absolute זָנֹה‎ Hosea 1:2; construct לִזְנוֺת‎ Leviticus 20:5 3t.; לִזְנֹת‎ 20:6; suffix בִּזְנוֺתֵךְ‎ Ezekiel 23:30; Participle זוֺנֶה‎ Psalm 73:27; Ezekiel 6:9; זֹנֶה‎ Hosea 4:15; plural זֹנִים‎ Leviticus 17:7 3t.; זוֺנָה‎ Deuteronomy 23:19 25t.; זֹנָה‎ Leviticus 21:7 2t.; זוֺנוֺת‎ Proverbs 29:3; זֹנוֺת‎ Hosea 4:14 4t. —

1 be or act as a harlot, absolute Genesis 38:24 (J), Deuteronomy 22:21 (D), Leviticus 21:9 (H), Hosea 4:13-14, Amos 7:17; זונה‎ + (ה)אשׁה‎ Joshua 2:1; 6:22 (J), Leviticus 21:7 (H), Judges 11:1; 16:1; Proverbs 6:26; Jeremiah 3:3; Ezekiel 16:30; 23:44; זוֺנָה‎ Genesis 34:31; 38:15; Joshua 6:17, 25 (all J), Deuteronomy 23:19; Leviticus 21:14 (H), Proverbs 7:10; 23:27; Isaiah 23:15-16, Joel 4:3; Micah 1:7 (twice in verse); Ezekiel 16:31; זֹנוֺת נָשִׁים‎ 1 Kings 3:16; ז(ו)נות‎ 22:38; Proverbs 29:3; Hosea 3:3; 4:14; Ezekiel 16:33; זונה בית‎ Jeremiah 5:7; commit fornication, man's act ׳ז אל‎ Numbers 25:1 (J); of woman's act Judges 19:2; of land given to harlotry Leviticus 19:29.

2 figurative of improper intercourse with foreign nations (religious reference sometimes involved) ׳ז את‎ Isaiah 23:17; אחרי‎ Ezekiel 23:30; אל‎ 16:26, 28 (twice in verse); ׳ז תַזְנוּתיה‎ 23:43; Nahum 3:4; תַחְתָּ֑י אָהֳלָה וַתִּזֶן‎ and Ohola committed fornication (whilst) under me Ezekiel 23:5 (compare Numbers 5:19).

3 of intercourse with other deities, considered as harlotry, sometimes involving actual prostitution, ׳ז אחרי‎ Exodus 34:15-16, Deuteronomy 31:16 (all J), Leviticus 17:7; 20:5 (twice in verse) (all H), Judges 2:17; 8:27, 33; 1 Chronicles 5:25; Ezekiel 6:9; 20:30; after אֹבֹת‎, etc. Leviticus 20:6 (H), one's own heart & eyes Numbers 15:39 (H); especially of Israel, Judah, and Jerusalem under figure of lewd woman Ezekiel 16:15 (absolute) 16:16 (במית על‎), 16:17 (׳ז בְ‎), 23:3 (twice in verse); 23:19 (absolute), Jeremiah 3:1 (with accusative); 3:6; 3:8 (absolute); absolute elsewhere Hosea 2:7; 4:15; Isaiah 57:3; Psalm 106:39; as leaving ׳י‎, followed by מֵעַל‎ Hosea 9:1; מאחרי‎ 1:2 (twice in verse); מתחת‎ 4:12; followed by מן‎ alone Psalm 73:27; ז(ו)נה‎ Jeremiah 2:20; Ezekiel 16:35, 41; זונה בית‎ Jeremiah 5:7; הַזּוֺנֶה לִבָּם‎ their whorish heart Ezekiel 6:9.

4 זונה‎ of moral defection Isaiah 1:21.

Pu`al Perfect3masculine singular זוּנָּה לֹא אַהֲרַיִךְ‎ fornication was not done (in going) after thee Ezekiel 16:34 (but strike out Co).

Hiph`il Perfect2masculine singular הִזְנֵיתָ‎ Hosea 5:3; 3plural חִזְנוּ‎ 4:10, 18; Exodus 34:16; Imperfect וַיֶּ֫זֶן‎2 Chronicles 21:11; וַתַּזְנֶה‎21:13; Infinitive absolute הַזְנֵה‎ Hosea 4:18; construct הַזְנוֺת‎2 Chronicles 21:13; suffix לְהַזְנוֺתָהּ‎ Leviticus 19:29.

1 cause to commit fornication:

a. sexual Leviticus 19:29 (H).

b. religious Exodus 34:16 (J), 2 Chronicles 21:11, 13 (twice in verse).

2 commit fornication:

a. sexual Hosea 4:10.

b. religious Hosea 4:18 (twice in verse); 5:3.








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