Lexicon :: Strong's H2181 - zānâ

But they answered, “Should he treat our sister like a prostitute? ”

When Judah saw her, he thought she was a prostitute, for she had covered her face.

About three months later Judah was told, “Your daughter-in-law, Tamar, has been acting like a prostitute, and now she is pregnant.”

“Bring her out,” Judah said, “and let her be burned to death! ”

“Do not make a treaty with the inhabitants of the land, or else when they prostitute themselves with their gods and sacrifice to their gods, they will invite you, and you will eat their sacrifices.

“They must no longer offer their sacrifices to the goat-demons that they have prostituted themselves with. This will be a permanent statute for them throughout their generations.

“Do not debase[fn] your daughter by making her a prostitute, or the land will be prostituted and filled with depravity.

“then I will turn against that man and his family, and cut off from their people both him and all who follow[fn] him in prostituting themselves with Molech.

“They are not to marry a woman defiled by prostitution.[fn] They are not to marry one divorced by her husband, for the priest is holy to his God.

“If a priest’s daughter defiles herself by promiscuity,[fn] she defiles her father; she must be burned to death.

“He is not to marry a widow, a divorced woman, or one defiled by prostitution. He is to marry a virgin from his own people,

“These will serve as tassels for you to look at, so that you may remember all the LORD’s commands and obey them and not prostitute yourselves by following your own heart and your own eyes.

While Israel was staying in the Acacia Grove,[fn] the people began to prostitute themselves with the women of Moab.

they will bring the woman to the door of her father’s house, and the men of her city will stone her to death. For she has committed an outrage in Israel by being promiscuous while living in her father’s house. You must purge the evil from you.

“Do not bring a female prostitute’s wages or a male prostitute’s[fn] earnings into the house of the LORD your God to fulfill any vow, because both are detestable to the LORD your God.

The LORD said to Moses, “You are about to rest with your ancestors, and these people will soon prostitute themselves with the foreign gods of the land they are entering. They will abandon me and break the covenant I have made with them.

Joshua son of Nun secretly sent two men as spies from the Acacia Grove,[fn] saying, “Go and scout the land, especially Jericho.” So they left, and they came to the house of a prostitute named Rahab, and stayed there.

“But the city and everything in it are set apart to the LORD for destruction. Only Rahab the prostitute and everyone with her in the house will live, because she hid the messengers we sent.

Joshua said to the two men who had scouted the land, “Go to the prostitute’s house and bring the woman out of there, and all who are with her, just as you swore to her.”

However, Joshua spared Rahab the prostitute, her father’s family, and all who belonged to her, because she hid the messengers Joshua had sent to spy on Jericho, and she still lives in Israel today.

but they did not listen to their judges. Instead, they prostituted themselves with other gods, bowing down to them. They quickly turned from the way of their ancestors, who had walked in obedience to the LORD’s commands. They did not do as their ancestors did.

Gideon made an ephod from all this and put it in Ophrah, his hometown. Then all Israel prostituted themselves by worshiping it there, and it became a snare to Gideon and his household.

When Gideon died, the Israelites turned and prostituted themselves by worshiping the Baals and made Baal-berith[fn] their god.

Jephthah the Gileadite was a valiant warrior, but he was the son of a prostitute, and Gilead was his father.

Samson went to Gaza, where he saw a prostitute and went to bed with her.

But she was unfaithful to[fn] him and left him for her father’s house in Bethlehem in Judah. She was there for four months.

But they were unfaithful to the God of their ancestors. They prostituted themselves with the gods of the nations[fn] God had destroyed before them.

Jehoram also built high places in the hills[fn] of Judah, and he caused the inhabitants of Jerusalem to prostitute themselves, and he led Judah astray.

“but have walked in the ways of the kings of Israel, have caused Judah and the inhabitants of Jerusalem to prostitute themselves like the house of Ahab prostituted itself, and also have killed your brothers, your father’s family, who were better than you,

Those far from you will certainly perish;

you destroy all who are unfaithful to you.

They defiled themselves by their actions

and prostituted themselves by their deeds.

For a prostitute’s fee is only a loaf of bread,[fn]

but the wife of another man[fn] goes after a precious life.

A woman came to meet him

dressed like a prostitute,

having a hidden agenda.[fn]

For a prostitute is a deep pit,

and a wayward woman is a narrow well;

A man who loves wisdom brings joy to his father,

but one who consorts with prostitutes destroys his wealth.

The faithful town —

what an adulteress[fn] she has become!

She was once full of justice.

Righteousness once dwelt in her,

but now, murderers!

On that day Tyre will be forgotten for seventy years ​— ​the life span of one king. At the end of seventy years, what the song says about the prostitute will happen to Tyre:

But come here,

you witch’s sons,

offspring of an adulterer and a prostitute![fn]

For long ago I[fn] broke your yoke;

I[fn] tore off your chains.

You insisted, “I will not serve! ”

On every high hill

and under every green tree

you lay down like a prostitute.

If[fn] a man divorces his wife

and she leaves him to marry another,

can he ever return to her?

Wouldn’t such a land[fn] become totally defiled?

But you!

You have prostituted yourself with many partners —

can you return to me?

This is the LORD’s declaration.

This is why the showers haven’t come —

why there has been no spring rain.

You have the brazen look of a prostitute[fn]

and refuse to be ashamed.

In the days of King Josiah the LORD asked me, “Have you seen what unfaithful Israel has done? She has ascended every high hill and gone under every green tree to prostitute herself there.

“I[fn] observed that it was because unfaithful Israel had committed adultery that I had sent her away and had given her a certificate of divorce. Nevertheless, her treacherous sister Judah was not afraid but also went and prostituted herself.

Why should I forgive you?

Your children have abandoned me

and sworn by those who are not gods.

I satisfied their needs, yet they committed adultery;

they gashed themselves at the[fn] prostitute’s house.

“Then your survivors will remember me among the nations where they are taken captive, how I was crushed by their promiscuous hearts that turned away from me and by their eyes that lusted after their idols. They will loathe themselves because of the evil things they did, their detestable actions of every kind.

“ ‘But you trusted in your beauty and acted like a prostitute because of your fame. You lavished your sexual favors on everyone who passed by. Your beauty became his.[fn]