Zimmâh — H2154

Definition

verb

a plan, especially a bad one

1. plan, device, wickedness, evil plan, mischievous purpose
1. plan, purpose
2. evil device, wickedness
3. not chaste, incest, licentiousness, adultery, idolatry, harlotry

Usually translated as

lewdness, wickedness, mischief, lewd, heinous crime, lewdly, thought, purpose, wicked

Origin

or zammâh; from H2161

• Derived from Zâmam (H2161)

Greek equivalents

• anomía (G458)
• ánomos (G459)
• anósios (G462)
• asébeia (G763)
• asebéō (G764)
• aphrosýnē (G877)
• kakós (G2556)

Occurrences

Zimmâh occurs 28 times in 26 verses of the King James.

Distribution of the word across the Bible: Leviticus (3), Judges (1), Job (1), Psalms (2), Proverbs (3), Isaiah (1), Jeremiah (1), Ezekiel (13), Hosea (1)

• Leviticus 18:17 — Thou shalt not uncover the nakedness of a woman and her daughter, neither shalt thou take her son’s daughter, or her daughter’s daughter, to uncover her nakedness; for they are her near kinswomen: it is wickedness (זִמָּ֥ה).
• Leviticus 19:29 — Do not prostitute thy daughter, to cause her to be a whore; lest the land fall to whoredom, and the land become full of wickedness (זִמָּֽה).
• Leviticus 20:14 — And if a man take a wife and her mother, it is wickedness (זִמָּ֣ה): they shall be burnt with fire, both he and they; that there be no wickedness among you.
• Leviticus 20:14 — And if a man take a wife and her mother, it is wickedness: they shall be burnt with fire, both he and they; that there be no wickedness (זִמָּ֖ה) among you.
• Judges 20:6 — And I took my concubine, and cut her in pieces, and sent her throughout all the country of the inheritance of Israel: for they have committed lewdness (זִמָּ֥ה) and folly in Israel.
• Job 17:11 — My days are past, my purposes (זִמֹּתַ֣י) are broken off, even the thoughts of my heart.
• Psalms 26:10 — In whose hands is mischief (זִמָּ֑ה), and their right hand is full of bribes.
• Psalms 119:150 — They draw nigh that follow after mischief (זִמָּ֑ה): they are far from thy law.
• Proverbs 10:23 — It is as sport to a fool to do mischief (זִמָּ֑ה): but a man of understanding hath wisdom.
• Proverbs 21:27 — The sacrifice of the wicked is abomination: how much more, when he bringeth it with a wicked mind (בְזִמָּ֥ה)?
• Proverbs 24:9 — The thought (זִמַּ֣ת) of foolishness is sin: and the scorner is an abomination to men.
• Isaiah 32:7 — The instruments also of the churl are evil: he deviseth wicked devices (זִמּ֣וֹת) to destroy the poor with lying words, even when the needy speaketh right.
• Jeremiah 13:27 — I have seen thine adulteries, and thy neighings, the lewdness (זִמַּ֣ת) of thy whoredom, and thine abominations on the hills in the fields. Woe unto thee, O Jerusalem! wilt thou not be made clean? when shall it once be?
• Ezekiel 16:27 — Behold, therefore I have stretched out my hand over thee, and have diminished thine ordinary food, and delivered thee unto the will of them that hate thee, the daughters of the Philistines, which are ashamed of thy lewd (זִמָּֽה) way.
• Ezekiel 16:43 — Because thou hast not remembered the days of thy youth, but hast fretted me in all these things; behold, therefore I also will recompense thy way upon thine head, saith the Lord GOD: and thou shalt not commit this lewdness (הַזִּמָּ֔ה) above all thine abominations.
• Ezekiel 16:58 — Thou hast borne thy lewdness (זִמָּתֵ֥ךְ) and thine abominations, saith the LORD.
• Ezekiel 22:9 — In thee are men that carry tales to shed blood: and in thee they eat upon the mountains: in the midst of thee they commit lewdness (זִמָּ֖ה).
• Ezekiel 22:11 — And one hath committed abomination with his neighbour’s wife; and another hath lewdly (בְזִמָּ֑ה) defiled his daughter in law; and another in thee hath humbled his sister, his father’s daughter.
• Ezekiel 23:21 — Thus thou calledst to remembrance the lewdness (זִמַּ֣ת) of thy youth, in bruising thy teats by the Egyptians for the paps of thy youth.
• Ezekiel 23:27 — Thus will I make thy lewdness (זִמָּתֵךְ֙) to cease from thee, and thy whoredom brought from the land of Egypt: so that thou shalt not lift up thine eyes unto them, nor remember Egypt any more.
• Ezekiel 23:29 — And they shall deal with thee hatefully, and shall take away all thy labour, and shall leave thee naked and bare: and the nakedness of thy whoredoms shall be discovered, both thy lewdness (וְזִמָּתֵ֖ךְ) and thy whoredoms.
• Ezekiel 23:35 — Therefore thus saith the Lord GOD; Because thou hast forgotten me, and cast me behind thy back, therefore bear thou also thy lewdness (זִמָּתֵ֖ךְ) and thy whoredoms.
• Ezekiel 23:44 — Yet they went in unto her, as they go in unto a woman that playeth the harlot: so went they in unto Aholah and unto Aholibah, the lewd (הַזִּמָּֽה) women.
• Ezekiel 23:48 — Thus will I cause lewdness (זִמָּ֖ה) to cease out of the land, that all women may be taught not to do after your lewdness.
• Ezekiel 23:48 — Thus will I cause lewdness to cease out of the land, that all women may be taught not to do after your lewdness (כְּזִמַּתְכֶֽנָה).
• Ezekiel 23:49 — And they shall recompense your lewdness (זִמַּתְכֶ֙נָה֙) upon you, and ye shall bear the sins of your idols: and ye shall know that I am the Lord GOD.
• Ezekiel 24:13 — In thy filthiness is lewdness (זִמָּ֑ה): because I have purged thee, and thou wast not purged, thou shalt not be purged from thy filthiness any more, till I have caused my fury to rest upon thee.
• Hosea 6:9 — And as troops of robbers wait for a man, so the company of priests murder in the way by consent: for they commit lewdness (זִמָּ֖ה).