Strong's Lexicon

H8457

H8457 — תַּזנוּת תַּזנוּת

Hebrew / Aramaic entry for Bible study and original-language reference.

Hebrewtaznuwthnoun femOccurrences: 22TWOT: 563c

Definition / Gloss

Strong's Number:	H8457
Word:	תַּזנוּת תַּזנוּת
Part of Speech:	noun fem
Etymology:	from H2181
Language:	Hebrew
Occurrences:	22
Transliteration:	taznuwth
Phonetic Spelling/Pronunciation:	taz-nooth' (or taznuth {taz-nooth'}) n-f.
Meaning:	1. harlotry, i.e. (figuratively) idolatry
KJV Renderings:	fornication, whoredom.

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[תַּזְנוּת] noun feminine abstract fornication: — suffix תַּזְנוּתֵךְ Ezek 16:20 ( Kt ) Ezek 16:25 ( Kt ) Ezek 16:29 תַּזְנֻתֵךְ Ezek 16:26 תַּזְנוּתָם Ezek 23:8; Ezek 23:17 תַּזְנוּתַיִךְ Ezek 16:15; Ezek 16:34; Ezek 16:36 תַּזְנֻתַיִךְ Ezek 16:22 תַּזְנוּתָ֑יִךְ Ezek 16:20 ( Qr ) Ezek 16:25 ( Qr ) Ezek 16:33; Ezek 23:29; Ezek 23:35 תַּזְנוּתֶיהָ Ezek 23:7; Ezek 23:8; Ezek 23:11; Ezek 23:14; Ezek 23:18; Ezek 23:19; Ezek 23:43. These are all international mingled with religious references.

Other Resources

Theological Wordbook of the Old Testament
R. Laird Harris, Gleason L. Archer, and Bruce K. Waltke

Englishman's Hebrew Concordance

זנות (z’nooth)

Numbers 14:83

EHCC: and bear your whoredoms,

Jeremiah 3:2

KJV: Lift up thine eyes unto the high places, and see where thou hast not been lien with. In the ways hast thou sat for them, as the Arabian in the wilderness; and thou hast polluted the land with thy whoredoms and with thy wickedness.

EHCC: polluted the land with thy whoredows

Jeremiah 13:27

KJV: I have seen thine adulteries, and thy neighings, the lewdness of thy whoredom, and thine abominations on the hills in the fields. Woe unto thee, O Jerusalem! wilt thou not be made clean? when shall it once be?when…: Heb. after when yet?

EHCC: the lewdness of thy whoredom,

Jeremiah 43:7

KJV: So they came into the land of Egypt: for they obeyed not the voice of the Lord: thus came they even to Tahpanhes.

EHCC: nor their kinj ir whoredom,

Hosea 4:11

KJV: Whoredom and wine and new wine take away the heart.

EHCC: Whoredom and wine and new wine

Hosea 6:10

KJV: I have seen an horrible thing in the house of Israel: there is the whoredom of Ephraim, Israel is defiled.

EHCC: there (is) the whoredom of Ephraim,

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