זְנוּנִים
za.nun
“fornication”
Definition
adultery; figuratively, idolatry
from H2181 (זָנָה);
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word, saying, account
Grammar & Morphology
Noun (Masculine)
H:N-M
H:N-M
Occurrences
זְנוּנִים appears 8 times in the Old Testament.
Distribution by Book
Key Passages
When Joram saw Jehu, he asked, “Have you come in peace, Jehu?”“How can there be peace,” he replied, “as long as the idolatry and witchcraft of your mother Jezebel abound?”
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About three months later, Judah was told, “Your daughter-in-law Tamar has prostituted herself, and now she is pregnant.”“Bring her out!” Judah replied. “Let her be burned to death!”
When the LORD first spoke through Hosea, He told him, “Go, take a prostitute as your wife and have children of adultery, because this land is flagrantly prostituting itself by departing from the LORD.”
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