נָאַף
na.aph
“to commit adultery”
Definition
to commit adultery; figuratively, to apostatize
a primitive root;
- to commit adultery 1a) (Qal) 1a1) to commit adultery 1a1a) usually of man 1a1a1) always with wife of another 1a1b) adultery (of women) (participle) 1a2) idolatrous worship (fig.) 1b) (Piel) 1b1) to commit adultery 1b1a) of man 1b1b) adultery (of women) (participle) 1b2) idolatrous worship (fig.)
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Grammar & Morphology
Verb
H:V
Hebrew Verb
Occurrences
נָאַף appears 25 times in the Old Testament.
Distribution by Book
Key Passages
You shall not commit adultery.
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They are all adulterers,like an oven heated by a bakerwho needs not stoke the firefrom the kneading to the rising of the dough.
She saw that because faithless Israel had committed adultery, I gave her a certificate of divorce and sent her away. Yet that unfaithful sister Judah had no fear and prostituted herself as well.
If a man commits adultery with another man’s wife—with the wife of his neighbor—both the adulterer and the adulteress must surely be put to death.
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