Strong's Concordance H2181

Original Word: זָנָה
Transliteration: zânâh
Phonetic Spelling: 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, × continually, × great, (be an, play the) harlot, (cause to be, play the) whore, (commit, fall to) whoredom, (cause to) go a-whoring, whorish.

Usages throughout the bible

Ezekiel 16:26 - Thou hast also committed fornication H2181 with the Egyptians thy neighbours, great of flesh; and hast increased thy whoredoms, to provoke me to anger.

Ezekiel 16:28 - Thou hast played the whore H2181 also with the Assyrians, because thou wast unsatiable; yea, thou hast played the harlot H2181 with them, and yet couldest not be satisfied.

Ezekiel 16:30 - How weak is thine heart, saith the Lord GOD, seeing thou doest all these things, the work of an imperious whorish H2181 woman;

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 harlot, H2181 in that thou scornest hire;

Ezekiel 16:33 - They give gifts to all whores: H2181 but thou givest thy gifts to all thy lovers, and hirest them, that they may come unto thee on every side for thy whoredom.

Ezekiel 16:34 - And the contrary is in thee from other women in thy whoredoms, whereas none followeth thee to commit whoredoms: H2181 and in that thou givest a reward, and no reward is given unto thee, therefore thou art contrary.

Ezekiel 16:35 - Wherefore, O harlot, H2181 hear the word of the LORD:

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 playing the harlot, H2181 and thou also shalt give no hire any more.

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 H2181 after their abominations?

Ezekiel 23:3 - And they committed whoredoms H2181 in Egypt; they committed whoredoms H2181 in their youth: there were their breasts pressed, and there they bruised the teats of their virginity.

Ezekiel 23:5 - And Aholah played the harlot H2181 when she was mine; and she doted on her lovers, on the Assyrians her neighbours,

Ezekiel 23:19 - Yet she multiplied her whoredoms, in calling to remembrance the days of her youth, wherein she had played the harlot H2181 in the land of Egypt.

Ezekiel 23:30 - I will do these things unto thee, because thou hast gone a whoring H2181 after the heathen, and because thou art polluted with their idols.

Ezekiel 23:43 - Then said I unto her that was old in adulteries, Will they now commit H2181 whoredoms with her, and she with them?

Ezekiel 23:44 - Yet they went in unto her, as they go in unto a woman that playeth the harlot: H2181 so went they in unto Aholah and unto Aholibah, the lewd women.

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 whoredoms: for the land hath committed great H2181 whoredom, H2181 departing from the LORD.

Hosea 2:5 - For their mother hath played the harlot: H2181 she that conceived them hath done shamefully: for she said, I will go after my lovers, that give me my bread and my water, my wool and my flax, mine oil and my drink.

Hosea 3:3 - And I said unto her, Thou shalt abide for me many days; thou shalt not play the harlot, H2181 and thou shalt not be for another man: so will I also be for thee.

Hosea 4:10 - For they shall eat, and not have enough: they shall commit whoredom, H2181 and shall not increase: because they have left off to take heed to the LORD.

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 have gone a whoring H2181 from under their God.

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 is good: therefore your daughters shall commit whoredom, H2181 and your spouses shall commit adultery.

Hosea 4:14 - I will not punish your daughters when they commit whoredom, H2181 nor your spouses when they commit adultery: for themselves are separated with whores, H2181 and they sacrifice with harlots: therefore the people that doth not understand shall fall.

Hosea 4:15 - Though thou, Israel, play the harlot, H2181 yet let not Judah offend; and come not ye unto Gilgal, neither go ye up to Bethaven, nor swear, The LORD liveth.

Hosea 4:18 - Their drink is sour: they have committed whoredom H2181 continually: H2181 her rulers with shame do love, Give ye.

Hosea 5:3 - I know Ephraim, and Israel is not hid from me: for now, O Ephraim, thou committest whoredom, H2181 and Israel is defiled.

Hosea 9:1 - Rejoice not, O Israel, for joy, as other people: for thou hast gone a whoring H2181 from thy God, thou hast loved a reward upon every cornfloor.

Joel 3:3 - And they have cast lots for my people; and have given a boy for an harlot, H2181 and sold a girl for wine, that they might drink.

Amos 7:17 - Therefore thus saith the LORD; Thy wife shall be an harlot H2181 in the city, and thy sons and thy daughters shall fall by the sword, and thy land shall be divided by line; and thou shalt die in a polluted land: and Israel shall surely go into captivity forth of his land.

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 thereof will I lay desolate: for she gathered it of the hire of an harlot, H2181 and they shall return to the hire of an harlot. H2181

Nahum 3:4 - Because of the multitude of the whoredoms of the wellfavoured harlot, H2181 the mistress of witchcrafts, that selleth nations through her whoredoms, and families through her witchcrafts.