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Lexicon :: Strong's H2154 - zimmâ

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זִמָּה
Transliteration
zimmâ
Pronunciation
zim-maw'
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Part of Speech
verb
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TWOT Reference: 556b

Strong’s Definitions

זִמָּה zimmâh, zim-maw'; or זַמָּה zammâh; from H2161; a plan, especially a bad one:—heinous crime, lewd(-ly, -ness), mischief, purpose, thought, wicked (device, mind, -ness).

KJV Translation Count — Total: 29x

The KJV translates Strong's H2154 in the following manner: lewdness (14x), wickedness (4x), mischief (3x), lewd (2x), heinous crime (1x), wicked devices (1x), lewdly (1x), wicked mind (1x), purposes (1x), thought (1x).

KJV Translation Count — Total: 29x
The KJV translates Strong's H2154 in the following manner: lewdness (14x), wickedness (4x), mischief (3x), lewd (2x), heinous crime (1x), wicked devices (1x), lewdly (1x), wicked mind (1x), purposes (1x), thought (1x).

  1. plan, device, wickedness, evil plan, mischievous purpose

    1. plan, purpose

    2. evil device, wickedness

    3. not chaste, incest, licentiousness, adultery, idolatry, harlotry

Strong’s Definitions [?](Strong’s Definitions Legend)
זִמָּה zimmâh, zim-maw'; or זַמָּה zammâh; from H2161; a plan, especially a bad one:—heinous crime, lewd(-ly, -ness), mischief, purpose, thought, wicked (device, mind, -ness).
STRONGS H2154: Abbreviations
† I. זִמָּה noun feminine plan, device, wickedness — absolute ז׳ Leviticus 18:17 + 17 times; construct זִמַּת Proverbs 24:9 + 2 times; suffix זִמָּתֵךְ Ezekiel 16:58 + 3 times; זִמַּתְכֶ֫נָֿה Ezekiel 23:48, 49; plural זמּוֺת Isaiah 32:7, suffix זִמֹּתַי Job 17:11; —
1. plan, purpose Job 17:3; elsewhere always
2. in bad sense:
a. evil device Isaiah 32:7 (with יעִץ, followed by לְחַבֵּל); זִמַּת אִוֶּלֶת Proverbs 24:9; compare Psalm 26:10 (|| שֹׁחַד), Psalm 119:150.
b. wickedness in act עשׂה ז׳ Hosea 6:9 (where murder in context), Proverbs 10:23; Proverbs 21:27 compare Now. Especially
c. of unchastity: incest Leviticus 18:17; Leviticus 20:14 (twice in verse), licentiousness Leviticus 19:29 (all H), Judges 20:6 (|| נְבָלָה), adultery Job 31:11; frequently (mostly Ezekiel) metaphor of idolatry of people under figure of harlotry and adultery Jeremiah 13:27 (זִמַּת זְנוּתֵךְ), Ezekiel 16:27 (דַּרְכֵךְ זִמָּה), Ezekiel 16:43; Ezekiel 16:58 (both || תּוֺעֵבָה), Ezekiel 22:9 (with עשׂה), Ezekiel 22:11 (טִמֵּא בְּזִמָּה, || תועבה), Ezekiel 23:21, 27 (|| זְנוּתֵךְ), Ezekiel 23:29 (עֶרְוַת זְנוּנַיִךְ וְזִמָּתֵךְ וְתַזְנוּתָ֑יִךְ), Ezekiel 23:35 (|| תַּזְנוּתָ֑יִךְ), Ezekiel 23:44 (אִשּׁוֺת הַזּ׳, Co לעשׂות ז׳), Ezekiel 23:48; Ezekiel 23:48; Ezekiel 23:49 (|| חֲטָאֵי גִלּוּלֵיכֶן), Ezekiel 24:13. [In Ezekiel 16:27, 43; Ezekiel 24:13 strike out Co, chiefly on internal grounds.]
Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew and English Lexicon, Unabridged, Electronic Database.
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BLB Scripture Index of Brown-Driver-Briggs

Leviticus

18:17; 18:17; 19:29; 20:14

Judges

20:6

Job

17:3; 17:11; 31:11

Psalms

26:10; 119:150

Proverbs

10:23; 21:27; 24:9; 24:9

Isaiah

32:7; 32:7

Jeremiah

13:27

Ezekiel

16:27; 16:27; 16:43; 16:43; 16:58; 16:58; 22:9; 22:11; 23:21; 23:27; 23:29; 23:35; 23:44; 23:48; 23:48; 23:48; 23:49; 23:49; 24:13; 24:13

Hosea

6:9

H2154

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Strong's Number H2154 matches the Hebrew זִמָּה (zimmâ),
which occurs 29 times in 27 verses in the WLC Hebrew.

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Unchecked Copy BoxLev 18:17

Unchecked Copy BoxLev 18:17 - The nakedness of a woman and her daughter shalt thou not uncover; her son's daughter, and her daughter's daughter, shalt thou not take, to uncover their nakedness, for they are thy kinswomen: it is impiety.

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Unchecked Copy BoxLev 19:29

Unchecked Copy BoxLev 19:29 - Thou shalt not profane thy daughter to prostitute her; so the land shall not go a whoring, and the land be filled with iniquity.

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Unchecked Copy BoxLev 20:14

Unchecked Copy BoxLev 20:14 - Whosoever shall take a woman and her mother, it is iniquity: they shall burn him and them with fire; so there shall not be iniquity among you.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 20:6

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 20:6 - And I laid hold of my concubine, and divided her in pieces, and sent the parts into every coast of the inheritance of the children of Israel; for they have wrought lewdness and abomination in Israel.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJob 17:11

Unchecked Copy BoxJob 17:11 - My days have passed in groaning, and my heart-strings are broken.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJob 31:11

Unchecked Copy BoxJob 31:11 - For the rage of anger is not to be controlled, in the case of defiling another man's wife.

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Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 26:10

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 26:10 - (LXX 25:10) in whose hands are iniquities, and their right hand is filled with bribes.

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Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 119:150

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 119:150 - (LXX 118:150) They have drawn nigh who persecuted me unlawfully; and they are far removed from thy law.

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Unchecked Copy BoxPro 10:23

Unchecked Copy BoxPro 10:23 - A fool does mischief in [fn]sport; but wisdom brings forth prudence for a man.

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Unchecked Copy BoxPro 21:27

Unchecked Copy BoxPro 21:27 - The sacrifices of the ungodly are abomination to the Lord, for they offer them wickedly.[fn]

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Unchecked Copy BoxPro 24:9

Unchecked Copy BoxPro 24:9 - The fool also dies in sins; and uncleanness attaches to a pestilent man.

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Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 32:7

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 32:7 - For the counsel of the wicked will devise iniquity, to destroy the poor with unjust words, and [fn]ruin the cause of the poor in judgment.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJer 13:27

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 13:27 - thine adultery also, and thy neighing, and the looseness of thy fornication: on the hills and in the fields I have seen thine abominations. Woe to thee, O Jerusalem, for thou hast not been purified so as to follow me; how long yet shall it be?

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Unchecked Copy BoxEze 16:27

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 16:27 - And if I stretch out my hand against thee, then will I abolish thy statutes, and deliver thee up to the wills of them that hate thee, even to the daughters of the Philistines that turned thee aside from the way wherein thou sinnedst.

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Unchecked Copy BoxEze 16:43

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 16:43 - Because thou didst not remember thine infancy, and thou didst grieve me in all these things; therefore, behold, I have recompensed thy ways upon thine head, saith the Lord: for thus hast thou wrought ungodliness above all thine other iniquities.

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Unchecked Copy BoxEze 16:58

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 16:58 - As for thine ungodliness and thine iniquities, thou hast borne them, saith the Lord.

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Unchecked Copy BoxEze 22:9

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 22:9 - There are robbers in thee, to shed blood in thee; and in thee they have eaten upon the mountains: they have wrought ungodliness in the midst of thee.

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Unchecked Copy BoxEze 22:11

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 22:11 - They have dealt unlawfully each one with his neighbour's wife; and each one in ungodliness has defiled his daughter-in-law: and in thee they have humbled each one his sister, the daughter of his father.

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Unchecked Copy BoxEze 23:21

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 23:21 - And thou didst look upon the iniquity of thy youth, the things which thou wroughtest in Egypt in thy lodging, where were the breasts of thy youth.

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Unchecked Copy BoxEze 23:27

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 23:27 - So I will turn back thine ungodliness from thee, and thy fornication from the land of Egypt: and thou shalt not lift up thine eyes upon them, and shalt no more remember Egypt.

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Unchecked Copy BoxEze 23:29

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 23:29 - And they shall deal with thee in hatred, and shall take all the fruits of thy labours and thy toils, and thou shalt be naked and bare: and the shame of thy fornication shall be exposed: and thy ungodliness and thy fornication

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Unchecked Copy BoxEze 23:35

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 23:35 - Therefore thus saith the Lord; Because thou hast forgotten me, and cast me behind thy back, therefore receive thou the reward of thine ungodliness and thy fornication.

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Unchecked Copy BoxEze 23:44

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 23:44 - And they went in to her, as men go in to a harlot; so they went in to Oola and to Ooliba to work iniquity.

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Unchecked Copy BoxEze 23:48

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 23:48 - And I will remove ungodliness out of the land, and all the women shall be instructed, and shall not do according to their ungodliness.

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Unchecked Copy BoxEze 23:49

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 23:49 - And your ungodliness shall be recompensed upon you, and ye shall bear the guilt of your devices: and ye shall know that I am the Lord.

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Unchecked Copy BoxEze 24:13

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 24:13 - Her scum shall become shameful, because thou didst defile thyself: and what if thou shalt be purged no more until I have accomplished my wrath?

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Unchecked Copy BoxHos 6:9

Unchecked Copy BoxHos 6:9 - And thy strength is that of a robber: the priests have hid the way, they have murdered the people of Sicima; for they have wrought iniquity in the house of Israel.
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