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Lexicon :: Strong's H2183 - zᵊnûnîm

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זְנוּנִים
Transliteration
zᵊnûnîm
Pronunciation
zaw-noon'
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Part of Speech
masculine plural noun
Root Word (Etymology)
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TWOT Reference: 563a

Variant Spellings

Variant spellings for this word: זנונים (Gesenius) זנון (Strongs)

Strong’s Definitions

זָנוּן zânûwn, zaw-noon'; from H2181; adultery; figuratively, idolatry:—whoredom.

KJV Translation Count — Total: 12x

The KJV translates Strong's H2183 in the following manner: whoredoms (12x).

KJV Translation Count — Total: 12x
The KJV translates Strong's H2183 in the following manner: whoredoms (12x).

  1. adultery, fornication, prostitution

Strong’s Definitions [?](Strong’s Definitions Legend)
זָנוּן zânûwn, zaw-noon'; from H2181; adultery; figuratively, idolatry:—whoredom.
STRONGS H2183: Abbreviations
† זְנוּנִים noun [masculine] fornication, plural abstract intensive (Ol§ 215 a; DlPr. 74, derived from √ זנן, Assyrian zanânu, fill full, compare Dlib.73) — ז׳ Hosea 1:2 + 5 times, construct זְנוּנֵי Nahum 3:4 + 2 times, זְנוּנַיִךְ Ezekiel 23:29, זְנוּנֶיהָ Hosea 2:4; Nahum 3:4.
a. sexual Genesis 38:24 (J) Hosea 1:2 (twice in verse).
b. international Nahum 3:4 (twice in verse).
c. religious 2 Kings 9:22; Ezekiel 23:11, 29; Hosea 2:4; Hosea 2:6; Hosea 4:12; Hosea 5:4.
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BLB Scripture Index of Brown-Driver-Briggs

Genesis

38:24

2 Kings

9:22

Ezekiel

23:11; 23:29; 23:29

Hosea

1:2; 1:2; 2:4; 2:4; 2:6; 4:12; 5:4

Nahum

3:4; 3:4; 3:4

H2183

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Word / Phrase / Strong's Search

Strong's Number H2183 matches the Hebrew זְנוּנִים (zᵊnûnîm),
which occurs 12 times in 10 verses in the WLC Hebrew.

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 38:24

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 38:24 - About three months later Judah was told, “Tamar your daughter-in-law has been immoral.[fn] Moreover, she is pregnant by immorality.”[fn] And Judah said, “Bring her out, and let her be burned.”

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Ki 9:22

Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 9:22 - And when Joram saw Jehu, he said, “Is it peace, Jehu?” He answered, “What peace can there be, so long as the whorings and the sorceries of your mother Jezebel are so many?”

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Unchecked Copy Box Eze 23:11

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 23:11 - “Her sister Oholibah saw this, and she became more corrupt than her sister[fn] in her lust and in her whoring, which was worse than that of her sister.

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Unchecked Copy Box Eze 23:29

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 23:29 - and they shall deal with you in hatred and take away all the fruit of your labor and leave you naked and bare, and the nakedness of your whoring shall be uncovered. Your lewdness and your whoring

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Unchecked Copy Box Hos 1:2

Unchecked Copy BoxHos 1:2 - When the LORD first spoke through Hosea, the LORD said to Hosea, “Go, take to yourself a wife of whoredom and have children of whoredom, for the land commits great whoredom by forsaking the LORD.”

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Unchecked Copy Box Hos 2:2

Unchecked Copy BoxHos 2:2 - “Plead with your mother, plead—
for she is not my wife,
and I am not her husband—
that she put away her whoring from her face,
and her adultery from between her breasts;

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Unchecked Copy Box Hos 2:4

Unchecked Copy BoxHos 2:4 - Upon her children also I will have no mercy,
because they are children of whoredom.

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Unchecked Copy Box Hos 4:12

Unchecked Copy BoxHos 4:12 - My people inquire of a piece of wood,
and their walking staff gives them oracles.
For a spirit of whoredom has led them astray,
and they have left their God to play the whore.

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Unchecked Copy Box Hos 5:4

Unchecked Copy BoxHos 5:4 - Their deeds do not permit them
to return to their God.
For the spirit of whoredom is within them,
and they know not the LORD.

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Unchecked Copy Box Nah 3:4

Unchecked Copy BoxNah 3:4 - And all for the countless whorings of the prostitute,
graceful and of deadly charms,
who betrays nations with her whorings,
and peoples with her charms.
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