# זָנָה (zanah)

Israeli respelling: za-nah. Hear on Google uses modern Hebrew.

Strong’s H2181. 81 Old Testament occurrences.

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)

King James renderings: (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.

Lexicon: Strong’s Hebrew, public domain. The derived file is shared under CC BY-SA 4.0.

Canonical: https://apologetics.wiki/bible/hebrew/zanah-h2181

## Occurrences

- [Genesis 34:31](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/genesis/34/31) — And they said, Should he deal with our sister as with an harlot?
- [Genesis 38:15](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/genesis/38/15) — When Judah saw her, he thought her to be an harlot; because she had covered her face.
- [Genesis 38:24](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/genesis/38/24) — And it came to pass about three months after, that it was told Judah, saying, Tamar thy daughter in law hath played the harlot; and also, b…
- [Exodus 34:15](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/exodus/34/15) — Lest thou make a covenant with the inhabitants of the land, and they go a whoring after their gods, and do sacrifice unto their gods, and o…
- [Exodus 34:16](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/exodus/34/16) — And thou take of their daughters unto thy sons, and their daughters go a whoring after their gods, and make thy sons go a whoring after the…
- [Leviticus 17:7](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/leviticus/17/7) — And they shall no more offer their sacrifices unto devils, after whom they have gone a whoring. This shall be a statute for ever unto them…
- [Leviticus 19:29](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/leviticus/19/29) — Do not prostitute thy daughter, to cause her to be a whore; lest the land fall to whoredom, and the land become full of wickedness.
- [Leviticus 20:5](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/leviticus/20/5) — Then I will set my face against that man, and against his family, and will cut him off, and all that go a whoring after him, to commit whor…
- [Leviticus 20:6](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/leviticus/20/6) — And the soul that turneth after such as have familiar spirits, and after wizards, to go a whoring after them, I will even set my face again…
- [Leviticus 21:7](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/leviticus/21/7) — They shall not take a wife that is a whore, or profane; neither shall they take a woman put away from her husband: for he is holy unto his…
- [Leviticus 21:9](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/leviticus/21/9) — And the daughter of any priest, if she profane herself by playing the whore, she profaneth her father: she shall be burnt with fire.
- [Leviticus 21:14](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/leviticus/21/14) — A widow, or a divorced woman, or profane, or an harlot, these shall he not take: but he shall take a virgin of his own people to wife.
- [Numbers 15:39](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/numbers/15/39) — And it shall be unto you for a fringe, that ye may look upon it, and remember all the commandments of the LORD, and do them; and that ye se…
- [Numbers 25:1](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/numbers/25/1) — And Israel abode in Shittim, and the people began to commit whoredom with the daughters of Moab.
- [Deuteronomy 22:21](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/deuteronomy/22/21) — Then they shall bring out the damsel to the door of her father’s house, and the men of her city shall stone her with stones that she die: b…
- [Deuteronomy 23:18](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/deuteronomy/23/18) — Thou shalt not bring the hire of a whore, or the price of a dog, into the house of the LORD thy God for any vow: for even both these are ab…
- [Deuteronomy 31:16](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/deuteronomy/31/16) — And the LORD said unto Moses, Behold, thou shalt sleep with thy fathers; and this people will rise up, and go a whoring after the gods of t…
- [Joshua 2:1](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/joshua/2/1) — And Joshua the son of Nun sent out of Shittim two men to spy secretly, saying, Go view the land, even Jericho. And they went, and came into…
- [Joshua 6:17](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/joshua/6/17) — And the city shall be accursed, even it, and all that are therein, to the LORD: only Rahab the harlot shall live, she and all that are with…
- [Joshua 6:22](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/joshua/6/22) — But Joshua had said unto the two men that had spied out the country, Go into the harlot’s house, and bring out thence the woman, and all th…
- [Joshua 6:25](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/joshua/6/25) — And Joshua saved Rahab the harlot alive, and her father’s household, and all that she had; and she dwelleth in Israel even unto this day; b…
- [Judges 2:17](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/judges/2/17) — And yet they would not hearken unto their judges, but they went a whoring after other gods, and bowed themselves unto them: they turned qui…
- [Judges 8:27](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/judges/8/27) — And Gideon made an ephod thereof, and put it in his city, even in Ophrah: and all Israel went thither a whoring after it: which thing becam…
- [Judges 8:33](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/judges/8/33) — And it came to pass, as soon as Gideon was dead, that the children of Israel turned again, and went a whoring after Baalim, and made Baalbe…
- [Judges 11:1](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/judges/11/1) — Now Jephthah the Gileadite was a mighty man of valour, and he was the son of an harlot: and Gilead begat Jephthah.
- [Judges 16:1](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/judges/16/1) — Then went Samson to Gaza, and saw there an harlot, and went in unto her.
- [Judges 19:2](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/judges/19/2) — And his concubine played the whore against him, and went away from him unto her father’s house to Bethlehemjudah, and was there four whole…
- [1 Chronicles 5:25](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/1-chronicles/5/25) — And they transgressed against the God of their fathers, and went a whoring after the gods of the people of the land, whom God destroyed bef…
- [2 Chronicles 21:11](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/2-chronicles/21/11) — Moreover he made high places in the mountains of Judah, and caused the inhabitants of Jerusalem to commit fornication, and compelled Judah…
- [2 Chronicles 21:13](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/2-chronicles/21/13) — But hast walked in the way of the kings of Israel, and hast made Judah and the inhabitants of Jerusalem to go a whoring, like to the whored…
- [Psalms 73:27](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/psalms/73/27) — For, lo, they that are far from thee shall perish: thou hast destroyed all them that go a whoring from thee.
- [Psalms 106:39](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/psalms/106/39) — Thus were they defiled with their own works, and went a whoring with their own inventions.
- [Proverbs 6:26](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/proverbs/6/26) — For by means of a whorish woman a man is brought to a piece of bread: and the adulteress will hunt for the precious life.
- [Proverbs 7:10](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/proverbs/7/10) — And, behold, there met him a woman with the attire of an harlot, and subtil of heart.
- [Proverbs 23:27](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/proverbs/23/27) — For a whore is a deep ditch; and a strange woman is a narrow pit.
- [Proverbs 29:3](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/proverbs/29/3) — Whoso loveth wisdom rejoiceth his father: but he that keepeth company with harlots spendeth his substance.
- [Isaiah 1:21](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/isaiah/1/21) — How is the faithful city become an harlot! it was full of judgment; righteousness lodged in it; but now murderers.
- [Isaiah 23:15](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/isaiah/23/15) — And it shall come to pass in that day, that Tyre shall be forgotten seventy years, according to the days of one king: after the end of seve…
- [Isaiah 23:16](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/isaiah/23/16) — Take an harp, go about the city, thou harlot that hast been forgotten; make sweet melody, sing many songs, that thou mayest be remembered.
- [Isaiah 23:17](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/isaiah/23/17) — And it shall come to pass after the end of seventy years, that the LORD will visit Tyre, and she shall turn to her hire, and shall commit f…
- [Isaiah 57:3](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/isaiah/57/3) — But draw near hither, ye sons of the sorceress, the seed of the adulterer and the whore.
- [Jeremiah 2:20](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/jeremiah/2/20) — For of old time I have broken thy yoke, and burst thy bands; and thou saidst, I will not transgress; when upon every high hill and under ev…
- [Jeremiah 3:1](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/jeremiah/3/1) — They say, If a man put away his wife, and she go from him, and become another man’s, shall he return unto her again? shall not that land be…
- [Jeremiah 3:3](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/jeremiah/3/3) — Therefore the showers have been withholden, and there hath been no latter rain; and thou hadst a whore’s forehead, thou refusedst to be ash…
- [Jeremiah 3:6](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/jeremiah/3/6) — The LORD said also unto me in the days of Josiah the king, Hast thou seen that which backsliding Israel hath done? she is gone up upon ever…
- [Jeremiah 3:8](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/jeremiah/3/8) — And I saw, when for all the causes whereby backsliding Israel committed adultery I had put her away, and given her a bill of divorce; yet h…
- [Jeremiah 5:7](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/jeremiah/5/7) — How shall I pardon thee for this? thy children have forsaken me, and sworn by them that are no gods: when I had fed them to the full, they…
- [Ezekiel 6:9](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/ezekiel/6/9) — And they that escape of you shall remember me among the nations whither they shall be carried captives, because I am broken with their whor…
- [Ezekiel 16:15](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/ezekiel/16/15) — But thou didst trust in thine own beauty, and playedst the harlot because of thy renown, and pouredst out thy fornications on every one tha…
- [Ezekiel 16:16](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/ezekiel/16/16) — And of thy garments thou didst take, and deckedst thy high places with divers colours, and playedst the harlot thereupon: the like things s…
- [Ezekiel 16:17](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/ezekiel/16/17) — Thou hast also taken thy fair jewels of my gold and of my silver, which I had given thee, and madest to thyself images of men, and didst co…
- [Ezekiel 16:26](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/ezekiel/16/26) — Thou hast also committed fornication with the Egyptians thy neighbours, great of flesh; and hast increased thy whoredoms, to provoke me to…
- [Ezekiel 16:28](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/ezekiel/16/28) — Thou hast played the whore also with the Assyrians, because thou wast unsatiable; yea, thou hast played the harlot with them, and yet could…
- [Ezekiel 16:30](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/ezekiel/16/30) — How weak is thine heart, saith the LORD GOD, seeing thou doest all these things, the work of an imperious whorish woman;
- [Ezekiel 16:31](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/ezekiel/16/31) — In that thou buildest thine eminent place in the head of every way, and makest thine high place in every street; and hast not been as an ha…
- [Ezekiel 16:33](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/ezekiel/16/33) — They give gifts to all whores: but thou givest thy gifts to all thy lovers, and hirest them, that they may come unto thee on every side for…
- [Ezekiel 16:34](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/ezekiel/16/34) — And the contrary is in thee from other women in thy whoredoms, whereas none followeth thee to commit whoredoms: and in that thou givest a r…
- [Ezekiel 16:35](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/ezekiel/16/35) — Wherefore, O harlot, hear the word of the LORD:
- [Ezekiel 16:41](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/ezekiel/16/41) — And they shall burn thine houses with fire, and execute judgments upon thee in the sight of many women: and I will cause thee to cease from…
- [Ezekiel 20:30](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/ezekiel/20/30) — Wherefore say unto the house of Israel, Thus saith the Lord GOD; Are ye polluted after the manner of your fathers? and commit ye whoredom a…
- [Ezekiel 23:3](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/ezekiel/23/3) — And they committed whoredoms in Egypt; they committed whoredoms in their youth: there were their breasts pressed, and there they bruised th…
- [Ezekiel 23:5](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/ezekiel/23/5) — And Aholah played the harlot when she was mine; and she doted on her lovers, on the Assyrians her neighbours,
- [Ezekiel 23:19](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/ezekiel/23/19) — Yet she multiplied her whoredoms, in calling to remembrance the days of her youth, wherein she had played the harlot in the land of Egypt.
- [Ezekiel 23:30](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/ezekiel/23/30) — I will do these things unto thee, because thou hast gone a whoring after the heathen, and because thou art polluted with their idols.
- [Ezekiel 23:43](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/ezekiel/23/43) — Then said I unto her that was old in adulteries, Will they now commit whoredoms with her, and she with them?
- [Ezekiel 23:44](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/ezekiel/23/44) — Yet they went in unto her, as they go in unto a woman that playeth the harlot: so went they in unto Aholah and unto Aholibah, the lewd wome…
- [Hosea 1:2](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/hosea/1/2) — The beginning of the word of the LORD by Hosea. And the LORD said to Hosea, Go, take unto thee a wife of whoredoms and children of whoredom…
- [Hosea 2:5](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/hosea/2/5) — For their mother hath played the harlot: she that conceived them hath done shamefully: for she said, I will go after my lovers, that give m…
- [Hosea 3:3](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/hosea/3/3) — And I said unto her, Thou shalt abide for me many days; thou shalt not play the harlot, and thou shalt not be for another man: so will I al…
- [Hosea 4:10](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/hosea/4/10) — For they shall eat, and not have enough: they shall commit whoredom, and shall not increase: because they have left off to take heed to the…
- [Hosea 4:12](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/hosea/4/12) — My people ask counsel at their stocks, and their staff declareth unto them: for the spirit of whoredoms hath caused them to err, and they h…
- [Hosea 4:13](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/hosea/4/13) — They sacrifice upon the tops of the mountains, and burn incense upon the hills, under oaks and poplars and elms, because the shadow thereof…
- [Hosea 4:14](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/hosea/4/14) — I will not punish your daughters when they commit whoredom, nor your spouses when they commit adultery: for themselves are separated with w…
- [Hosea 4:15](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/hosea/4/15) — Though thou, Israel, play the harlot, yet let not Judah offend; and come not ye unto Gilgal, neither go ye up to Bethaven, nor swear, The L…
- [Hosea 4:18](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/hosea/4/18) — Their drink is sour: they have committed whoredom continually: her rulers with shame do love, Give ye.
- [Hosea 5:3](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/hosea/5/3) — I know Ephraim, and Israel is not hid from me: for now, O Ephraim, thou committest whoredom, and Israel is defiled.
- [Hosea 9:1](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/hosea/9/1) — Rejoice not, O Israel, for joy, as other people: for thou hast gone a whoring from thy God, thou hast loved a reward upon every cornfloor.
- [Joel 3:3](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/joel/3/3) — And they have cast lots for my people; and have given a boy for an harlot, and sold a girl for wine, that they might drink.
- [Amos 7:17](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/amos/7/17) — Therefore thus saith the LORD; Thy wife shall be an harlot in the city, and thy sons and thy daughters shall fall by the sword, and thy lan…
- [Micah 1:7](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/micah/1/7) — And all the graven images thereof shall be beaten to pieces, and all the hires thereof shall be burned with the fire, and all the idols the…
- [Nahum 3:4](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/nahum/3/4) — Because of the multitude of the whoredoms of the wellfavoured harlot, the mistress of witchcrafts, that selleth nations through her whoredo…