Taznûwth — H8457

Definition

feminine noun

harlotry, i.e. (figuratively) idolatry

1. fornication, harlotry

Usually translated as

whoredom, fornication

Origin

or taznuth; from H2181

• Derived from Zânâh (H2181)

Greek equivalents

• érgon (G2041)
• porneía (G4202)

Occurrences

Taznûwth occurs 20 times in 19 verses of the King James.

Distribution of the word across the Bible: Ezekiel (19)

• Ezekiel 16:15 — But thou didst trust in thine own beauty, and playedst the harlot because of thy renown, and pouredst out thy fornications (תַּזְנוּתַ֛יִךְ) on every one that passed by; his it was.
• Ezekiel 16:20 — Moreover thou hast taken thy sons and thy daughters, whom thou hast borne unto me, and these hast thou sacrificed unto them to be devoured. Is this of thy whoredoms (מִתַּזְנוּתָֽיִךְ) a small matter,
• Ezekiel 16:22 — And in all thine abominations and thy whoredoms (וְתַזְנֻתַ֔יִךְ) thou hast not remembered the days of thy youth, when thou wast naked and bare, and wast polluted in thy blood.
• Ezekiel 16:25 — Thou hast built thy high place at every head of the way, and hast made thy beauty to be abhorred, and hast opened thy feet to every one that passed by, and multiplied thy whoredoms (תַּזְנוּתָֽיִךְ).
• Ezekiel 16:26 — Thou hast also committed fornication with the Egyptians thy neighbours, great of flesh; and hast increased thy whoredoms (תַּזְנֻתֵ֖ךְ), to provoke me to anger.
• Ezekiel 16:29 — Thou hast moreover multiplied thy fornication (תַּזְנוּתֵ֛ךְ) in the land of Canaan unto Chaldea; and yet thou wast not satisfied herewith.
• Ezekiel 16:33 — They give gifts to all whores: but thou givest thy gifts to all thy lovers, and hirest them, that they may come unto thee on every side for thy whoredom (בְּתַזְנוּתָֽיִךְ).
• Ezekiel 16:34 — And the contrary is in thee from other women in thy whoredoms (בְּתַזְנוּתַ֔יִךְ), whereas none followeth thee to commit whoredoms: and in that thou givest a reward, and no reward is given unto thee, therefore thou art contrary.
• Ezekiel 16:36 — Thus saith the Lord GOD; Because thy filthiness was poured out, and thy nakedness discovered through thy whoredoms (בְּתַזְנוּתַ֖יִךְ) with thy lovers, and with all the idols of thy abominations, and by the blood of thy children, which thou didst give unto them;
• Ezekiel 23:7 — Thus she committed her whoredoms (תַּזְנוּתֶ֙יהָ֙) with them, with all them that were the chosen men of Assyria, and with all on whom she doted: with all their idols she defiled herself.
• Ezekiel 23:8 — Neither left she her whoredoms (תַּזְנוּתֶ֤יהָ) brought from Egypt: for in her youth they lay with her, and they bruised the breasts of her virginity, and poured their whoredom upon her.
• Ezekiel 23:8 — Neither left she her whoredoms brought from Egypt: for in her youth they lay with her, and they bruised the breasts of her virginity, and poured their whoredom (תַזְנוּתָ֖ם) upon her.
• Ezekiel 23:11 — And when her sister Aholibah saw this, she was more corrupt in her inordinate love than she, and in her whoredoms (תַּ֨זְנוּתֶ֔יהָ) more than her sister in her whoredoms.
• Ezekiel 23:14 — And that she increased her whoredoms (תַּזְנוּתֶ֑יהָ): for when she saw men pourtrayed upon the wall, the images of the Chaldeans pourtrayed with vermilion,
• Ezekiel 23:17 — And the Babylonians came to her into the bed of love, and they defiled her with their whoredom (בְּתַזְנוּתָ֑ם), and she was polluted with them, and her mind was alienated from them.
• Ezekiel 23:18 — So she discovered her whoredoms (תַּזְנוּתֶ֔יהָ), and discovered her nakedness: then my mind was alienated from her, like as my mind was alienated from her sister.
• Ezekiel 23:19 — Yet she multiplied her whoredoms (תַּזְנוּתֶ֑יהָ), in calling to remembrance the days of her youth, wherein she had played the harlot in the land of Egypt.
• 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 and thy whoredoms (וְתַזְנוּתָֽיִךְ).
• 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 and thy whoredoms (תַּזְנוּתָֽיִךְ).
• Ezekiel 23:43 — Then said I unto her that was old in adulteries, Will they now commit whoredoms (תַזְנוּתֶ֖הָ) with her, and she with them?