Strong's #2181: zanah (pronounced zaw-naw')
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 Hebrew Lexicon:
zânâh
1) to commit fornication, be a harlot, play the harlot
1a) (Qal)
1a1) to be a harlot, act as a harlot, commit fornication
1a2) to commit adultery
1a3) to be a cult prostitute
1a4) to be unfaithful (to God) (figuratively)
1b) (Pual) to play the harlot
1c) (Hiphil)
1c1) to cause to commit adultery
1c2) to force into prostitution
1c3) to commit fornication
Part of Speech: verb
Relation: a primitive root [highly-fed and therefore wanton]
Usage:
This word is used 93 times:
Genesis 34:31: "Should he deal with our sister as with an harlot?"
Genesis 38:15: "When Judah saw her, he thought her to be a harlot; she had covered her face."
Genesis 38:24: "saying, Tamar thy daughter-in-law hath played the harlot; and also, behold, she is with child"
Exodus 34:15: "a covenant with the inhabitants and they go a whoring after their gods, and do sacrifice unto their gods,"
Exodus 34:16: "of their daughters unto thy sons, and their daughters go a whoring after their gods, and make"
Exodus 34:16: "after their gods, and make thy sons go a whoring after their gods."
Leviticus 17:7: "after whom they have gone a whoring. This shall be a statute forever"
Leviticus 19:29: "prostitute thy daughter, to cause her to be a whore; lest the land fall to whoredom, and the land"
Leviticus 19:29: "lest the land fall to whoredom, and the land become full of wickedness."
Leviticus 20:5: "and against his family, and will cut him off, and all that go a whoring after him, to commit whoredom with"
Leviticus 20:5: "and will cut him off, and all that go a whoring after him, to commit whoredom with Molech, from among"
Leviticus 20:6: "and after wizards, to go a whoring after them, I will even set my face"
Leviticus 21:7: "They shall not take a wife that is a whore, neither shall they take a woman"
Leviticus 21:9: "priest, if by playing the whore, she profaneth her father:"
Leviticus 21:14: "A widow, or a divorced woman, or profane, or a harlot, these shall he not take:"
Numbers 15:39: "after which ye use to go a whoring:"
Numbers 25:1: "in Shittim, and the people to commit whoredom with the daughters of Moab."
Deuteronomy 22:21: "she hath wrought folly in Israel, to play the whore in her father's house: so shalt thou put evil away"
Deuteronomy 23:18: "Thou shalt not bring the hire of a whore, of a dog, into the house of the LORD"
Deuteronomy 31:16: "and this people will rise up, and go a whoring after the gods of the strangers of the land,"
Joshua 2:1: "even Jericho. And they went, and came into a harlot's a harlot's house, named Rahab,"
Joshua 6:17: "are therein, to the LORD: only Rahab the harlot shall live, she and all that"
Joshua 6:22: "the country, Go into the harlot's the harlot's house, and bring out thence"
Joshua 6:25: "And Joshua saved Rahab the harlot household, and all that"
Judges 2:17: "unto but they went a whoring after other gods, and bowed themselves"
Judges 8:27: "even in Ophrah: and all Israel went thither a whoring after it: which thing became a snare"
Judges 8:33: "of Israel turned again, and went a whoring after Baalim, and made Baal-berith"
Judges 11:1: "and he was the son of a harlot: of a harlot: and Gilead begot"
Judges 16:1: "to Gaza, and saw a harlot, a harlot, and went in unto"
Judges 19:2: "And his concubine played the whore against him, and went away him unto her father's"
1 Kings 3:16: "came there two women, that were harlots, unto the king, and stood before"
1 Chronicles 5:25: "And they transgressed against the God of their fathers, and went a whoring the gods of the people of the land,"
2 Chronicles 21:11: "and caused the inhabitants of Jerusalem to commit fornication, and compelled Judah"
2 Chronicles 21:13: "Judah and the inhabitants of Jerusalem to go a whoring, like to the whoredoms of the house of Ahab, and also"
2 Chronicles 21:13: "and the inhabitants of Jerusalem to go a whoring, like to the whoredoms of the house of Ahab, and also hast slain"
Psalms 73:27: "from thee shall perish: all them that go a whoring from"
Psalms 106:39: "Thus were they defiled with their own works, and went a whoring with their own inventions."
Proverbs 6:26: "For by means of a whorish woman a piece of bread: and the adulteress"
Proverbs 7:10: "there met him a woman with the attire of a harlot, and subtle of heart."
Proverbs 23:27: "For a whore is a deep ditch; woman is a narrow pit."
Proverbs 29:3: "rejoiceth but he that keepeth company with harlots spendeth his substance."
Isaiah 1:21: "is the faithful city become a harlot! it was full of judgment; righteousness lodged"
Isaiah 23:15: "of seventy years shall Tyre sing as a harlot."
Isaiah 23:16: "a harp, go about the city, thou harlot that hast been forgotten; make sweet melody, sing many"
Isaiah 23:17: "Tyre, and she shall turn to her hire, and shall commit fornication with all the kingdoms"
Isaiah 57:3: "the seed of the adulterer and the whore."
Jeremiah 2:20: "green tree thou wanderest, playing the harlot."
Jeremiah 3:1: "that land be greatly polluted? but thou hast played the harlot with many lovers;"
Jeremiah 3:3: "and there hath been no and thou hadst a whore's and thou hadst a whore's forehead, thou refusedst to be ashamed."
Jeremiah 3:6: "green tree, and there hath played the harlot."
