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Lexicon :: Strong's H8457 - taznûṯ

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תַּזְנוּת
Transliteration
taznûṯ
Pronunciation
taz-nooth'
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Part of Speech
feminine noun
Root Word (Etymology)
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TWOT Reference: 563c

Strong’s Definitions

תַּזְנוּת taznûwth, taz-nooth'; or תַּזְנֻת taznuth; from H2181; harlotry, i.e. (figuratively) idolatry:—fornication, whoredom.

KJV Translation Count — Total: 20x

The KJV translates Strong's H8457 in the following manner: whoredom (18x), fornication (2x).

KJV Translation Count — Total: 20x
The KJV translates Strong's H8457 in the following manner: whoredom (18x), fornication (2x).

  1. fornication, harlotry

Strong’s Definitions [?](Strong’s Definitions Legend)
תַּזְנוּת taznûwth, taz-nooth'; or תַּזְנֻת taznuth; from H2181; harlotry, i.e. (figuratively) idolatry:—fornication, whoredom.
STRONGS H8457: Abbreviations
† [תַּזְנוּת] noun feminine abstract fornication: — suffix תַּזְנוּתֵךְ Ezekiel 16:20 (Kt) Ezekiel 16:25 (Kt) Ezekiel 16:29; תַּזְנֻתֵךְ Ezekiel 16:26; תַּזְנוּתָם Ezekiel 23:8, 17; תַּזְנוּתַיִךְ Ezekiel 16:15, 34, 36; תַּזְנֻתַיִךְ Ezekiel 16:22; תַּזְנוּתָ֑יִךְ Ezekiel 16:20 (Qr) Ezekiel 16:25 (Qr) Ezekiel 16:33; Ezekiel 23:29, 35; תַּזְנוּתֶיהָ Ezekiel 23:7, 8, 11, 14, 18, 19, 43. These are all international mingled with religious references.
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Ezekiel

16:15; 16:20; 16:20; 16:22; 16:25; 16:25; 16:26; 16:29; 16:33; 16:34; 16:36; 23:7; 23:8; 23:8; 23:11; 23:14; 23:17; 23:18; 23:19; 23:29; 23:35; 23:43

H8457

Word / Phrase / Strong's Search

Strong's Number H8457 matches the Hebrew תַּזְנוּת (taznûṯ),
which occurs 22 times in 19 verses in the WLC Hebrew.

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Unchecked Copy Box Eze 16:15

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 16:15 - “ ‘But you trusted in your beauty and used your fame to become a prostitute. You lavished your favors on anyone who passed by and your beauty became his.

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Unchecked Copy Box Eze 16:20

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 16:20 - “ ‘And you took your sons and daughters whom you bore to me and sacrificed them as food to the idols. Was your prostitution not enough?

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Unchecked Copy Box Eze 16:22

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 16:22 - In all your detestable practices and your prostitution you did not remember the days of your youth, when you were naked and bare, kicking about in your blood.

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Unchecked Copy Box Eze 16:25

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 16:25 - At every street corner you built your lofty shrines and degraded your beauty, spreading your legs with increasing promiscuity to anyone who passed by.

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Unchecked Copy Box Eze 16:26

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 16:26 - You engaged in prostitution with the Egyptians, your neighbors with large genitals, and aroused my anger with your increasing promiscuity.

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Unchecked Copy Box Eze 16:29

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 16:29 - Then you increased your promiscuity to include Babylonia,[fn] a land of merchants, but even with this you were not satisfied.

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Unchecked Copy Box Eze 16:33

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 16:33 - All prostitutes receive gifts, but you give gifts to all your lovers, bribing them to come to you from everywhere for your illicit favors.

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Unchecked Copy Box Eze 16:34

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 16:34 - So in your prostitution you are the opposite of others; no one runs after you for your favors. You are the very opposite, for you give payment and none is given to you.

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Unchecked Copy Box Eze 16:36

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 16:36 - This is what the Sovereign LORD says: Because you poured out your lust and exposed your naked body in your promiscuity with your lovers, and because of all your detestable idols, and because you gave them your children’s blood,

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Unchecked Copy Box Eze 23:7

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 23:7 - She gave herself as a prostitute to all the elite of the Assyrians and defiled herself with all the idols of everyone she lusted after.

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Unchecked Copy Box Eze 23:8

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 23:8 - She did not give up the prostitution she began in Egypt, when during her youth men slept with her, caressed her virgin bosom and poured out their lust on her.

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Unchecked Copy Box Eze 23:11

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 23:11 - “Her sister Oholibah saw this, yet in her lust and prostitution she was more depraved than her sister.

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Unchecked Copy Box Eze 23:14

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 23:14 - “But she carried her prostitution still further. She saw men portrayed on a wall, figures of Chaldeans[fn] portrayed in red,

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Unchecked Copy Box Eze 23:17

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 23:17 - Then the Babylonians came to her, to the bed of love, and in their lust they defiled her. After she had been defiled by them, she turned away from them in disgust.

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Unchecked Copy Box Eze 23:18

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 23:18 - When she carried on her prostitution openly and exposed her naked body, I turned away from her in disgust, just as I had turned away from her sister.

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Unchecked Copy Box Eze 23:19

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 23:19 - Yet she became more and more promiscuous as she recalled the days of her youth, when she was a prostitute in Egypt.

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Unchecked Copy Box Eze 23:29

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 23:29 - They will deal with you in hatred and take away everything you have worked for. They will leave you stark naked, and the shame of your prostitution will be exposed. Your lewdness and promiscuity

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Unchecked Copy Box Eze 23:35

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 23:35 - “Therefore this is what the Sovereign LORD says: Since you have forgotten me and turned your back on me, you must bear the consequences of your lewdness and prostitution.”

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Unchecked Copy Box Eze 23:43

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 23:43 - Then I said about the one worn out by adultery, ‘Now let them use her as a prostitute, for that is all she is.’
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