1. זָנָה
commit fornication, be a harlot
The corpus record — Hebrew
הַכְזוֹנָ֕ה
zanah · vb
commit fornication, be a harlot
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Distribution
- Tanakh (Hebrew Bible) 93 · 3.03/10k
Senses
2. זָנָה
to commit adultery (usually of the female, and less often of simple fornication, rarely of involuntary ravishment); figuratively, to commit idolatry (the Jewish people being regarded as the spouse of Jehovah)
Attestations
- הַ/כְ/זוֹנָ֕ה Genesis 34:31 (BHS)
- לְ/זוֹנָ֑ה Genesis 38:15 (BHS)
- זָֽנְתָה֙ Genesis 38:24 (BHS)
- וְ/זָנ֣וּ Exodus 34:15 (BHS)
- וְ/זָנ֣וּ Exodus 34:16 (BHS)
- וְ/הִזְנוּ֙ Exodus 34:16 (BHS)
6 of 93 attestations shown.
Deep etymology
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Hebrew text from the Westminster Leningrad Codex (public domain). Morphology and lemmatization from the OpenScriptures Hebrew Bible (OSHB), CC BY 4.0. Brown-Driver-Briggs (BDB) lexicon, public domain.